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2012

Have Attorneys Read the iCloud Terms and Conditions?
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Smartphones for Lawyers: Selecting, Managing and Securing Them
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2011

Essential Law Firm Policies and Plans
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Preventing Law Firm Data Breaches
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Mitigating the Legal Risks of Using Social Media
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Managing Legacy Data – The Skeletons in the ESI Closet
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Is it Possible to Secure Law Firm Data?
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From Across the Pond: Proportionality in E-Discovery
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Alternative Fee Arrangements: Their Popularity Soars
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iPad for Lawyers
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Data Dumps: The Bane of E-Discovery
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Stupid Mistakes That Lawyers Make with Technology
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Renegade Smartphones Threaten Business Security
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Group Policy Objects: What are They and How Can They Help Your Firm?
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Litigators’ Toolbox: Social Media
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SEXTING AND SEXTORTION: Texting and Extortion Get a XXX Twist
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50 Ways to do More in Less Time (Often with Less Money)
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Secure Passwords: The Rules Have Changed
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2010

Anatomy of a Law Practice Audit
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The Nuremberg Courtroom: The Triumph of the Rule of Law
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Virtualization: What It Means for Your Law Office
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The Virtual Lawyer Stampede
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Lawyers “Step in It” Through Social Media Incompetence
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Ways to Power Your Practice: A Few Of Our New Top Picks
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Make Your Website Visible to Search Engines
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The Legal Implications of Social Networking
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Get Unwired or Come Unglued
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“Do It Yourself” ESI Collection: 
Risky Business for Clients and Counsel
by Aaron Lawlor and Sharon Nelson
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2009

Why Lawyers Shouldn’t Use The iPhone: 
A Security Nightmare
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How Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times: 
Legal Marketing in a Down Economy
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Decoding Computer Investigation Vendors: 
How to Avoid Mistakes
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Hit the Road Jack: Secure Mobile Computing
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Big Time Blunders: Mistakes in Managing IT
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In Defense of the Defense: The Use of 
Computer Forensics in Child Pornography Cases
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To Saas or Not to Saas?
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Capturing Quicksilver: Records Management For Blogs, Twittering And Social Networks
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Stop the Bleeding: 
Cost Containment for Electronic Discovery
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2008

Adultery in the Electronic Era:
Avatars, Cybersex and Hottie Honeypots 
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IT’s Not Your Father’s Oldsmobile – Or Courthouse – Anymore -- Fairfax Courthouse Goes High Tech 
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The Electronic Peephole: 
E-Evidence In Family Law Cases
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Quick E-Evidence Tips for Family Law Practitioners
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Legal Tech: Looking Backward And Forward With Andy Adkins 
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Electronic Evidence Best Practices 2008 
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How Do You Find Relevant Electronic Evidence? Search Me. 
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Dancing in the Minefield: 
Outsourcing EDD Review Abroad
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Where Angels Fear To Tread: 
Electronic Data Search Protocols
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Watching the Digital Radar With Google News Alerts
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Divided by a Common Language (Again):
U.K. Perspectives on E-Discovery
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Spyware, Avatars and Cybersex 
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The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer 
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The ABCs of SEO 
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Tomorrow in Legal Tech
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2007

Daddy Can You Go My Bail: 
Forensics Experts in the FBI's Crosshairs 
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Smoke and Mirrors: The Fabrication 
and Alteration of Electronic Evidence
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She Stole our Data! 
She Hid It In Her Underwear! 
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Ethics in the Electronic Era: 
Avoiding the Icebergs
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Data Breaches: Damage Control 
After the Dam Bursts 
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Electronic Evidence for Family Law Practitioners: 
The Growing Phenomenon of Spyware
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Have the Security “Willies?” Build a Safer Network
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The Browser War That No One Came To: 
The Easy Conquest of Internet Explorer 
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Electronic Marketing: 
Harnessing the Web's Whizbang, Part I 
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Electronic Marketing: 
Harnessing the Web's Whizbang, Part II
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No Longer Over the Horizon: VISTA!
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Electronic Discovery in Everyday Cases:
Practical Guidance is an Antidote to Fear!
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2006

Electronic Evidence Best Practices
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D'Oh! The Dumb Things Lawyers Do With E-mail
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Countdown to Zero
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Disaster Preparedness: What's Reasonable?
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Running for the Roses: 
Electronic Filing in Federal Courts
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Held Hostage by Technology? Get Unwired!! 
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To Dream the Impossible Dream? 
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Finding and Securing Electronic Evidence 
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Security on the Go
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2005

Finding Wyatt Earp: 
Your Computer Forensics Expert
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3 Strikes and You're Out: 
Judges Talk About Court Room Technology
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Spyware: When You Look at Your Computer, Is It Looking Back at You?
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Disgruntled Employees in Your Law Firm: The Enemy Within
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Spoliation of Evidence: This Way Be Dragons
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Cyberinsurance: Singing in the Rain!
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Electronic Discovery Comes of Age: The Fulbright Jaworski Study
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Metadata: What You Can’t See CAN Hurt You
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2004

The ABA Techshow Survival Guide
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Drafting Electronic Evidence Protocols: Staying Out of the Briar Patch
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Computer Forensics: An Attorney's Primer
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Building Better Fences: Security for Small and Mid-Size Law Firms
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Status Report: Electronic Filing in the Federal Courts — 2004
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Electronic Discovery: Is It Better to Give or Receive?
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E-Mail Management: Taming the Hydra
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2003

Law Firm Document Retention Policies
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Lawyers Inch Their Way Toward a Paperless Practice 
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Wireless Security for Law Firms
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Canning Spam: Unclogging Law Firm Mailboxes
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Bringing the Bench and the Bar Online
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Electronic Evidence: The Ten Commandments
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2002

Shackled to Microsoft: What It Means to the Legal Profession
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Law Office Security: Building the Castle Moat
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Takedowns: Legendary Successes in Computer Forensics
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Finding and Securing Electronic Evidence
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Mel Gibson Proves That You Should Be Wary of Electronic Evidence
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Ms. Nelson and Mr. Simek are frequent authors on electronic evidence as well as legal and information technology subjects and have been published in many magazines, newspapers and other periodicals which include but are not limited to:

— Law Practice Today (American Bar Association)

— Virginia Lawyers Weekly

— The Virginia Lawyer

— GP/SOLO

— Michigan Lawyers Weekly

— Michigan Bar Journal

— The Michigan Defense Quarterly

— Ohio Lawyers Weekly

— The Ohio Lawyer

— Ohio Trial

— The Vermont Bar Journal

— The Ohio Association of 
    Civil Trial Attorneys Newsletter

— The Wisconsin Lawyer

— The Wisconsin Law Journal

— The Nevada Lawyer

— The Nebraska Lawyer

— The New Jersey Lawyer

— The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers Journal

— The Tennessee Bar Journal

— New Mexico Trial Lawyers Journal

— The Newsletter of the Virginia State Bar 
    Real Property Section

— The Advocate: Arizona Trial Lawyers Association

— Wyoming Lawyer

— Washington State Trial Lawyers Association

— Colorado Trial Lawyers Association

— The Colorado Lawyer

— Consumer Attorneys of California

— Arkansas Trial Lawyers' Association Docket

— Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association

— Texas Bar Journal, In-House Counsel

— Legal Assistant Today

— Oregon State Bar Bulletin

— The Fairfax Bar Journal

— Trial Bar News

— The Corporate Lawyer and The American
     Bar Association/TIPS Civil Procedure

— Evidence Committee Newsletter

— The New Hampshire Bar News

— The General Counsel Roundtable

— Louisiana Advocates

— The Docket

— The Advocate

— The Pennsylvania Lawyer Magazine

— The Promulgator and Tort Trends

 
 
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