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IN THE PAST DECADE, THERE HAS BEEN A TREND TOWARD USING alternative off-wire power distribution technologies to minimize, and in some cases, eliminate overhead contact systems (OCS) for electrified transit [...]

People tend to think of the law as slow-moving, immutable and disconnected from daily life. And lawyers have a reputation of being cautious and resistant to change. But in fact, [...]

FOR MORE THAN 35 YEARS, Hollywood producer Brian Grazer has tracked down people who interest him and asked them to sit down with him for "curiosity conversations." He claims that [...]

In the hyperpartisan world of contemporary Washington politics, it would seem unlikely that Republican anti-tax warrior Grover Norquist and liberal civil liberties groups like the ACLU would be fighting together [...]

It would be the ultimate discovery for e-discovery: a perfect method to turn terabytes of digital data into a collection of case-relevant documents. Three years ago, a handful of lawyers [...]

WHEN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY DISPUTES get heated in his courtroom, Magistrate Judge David J. Waxse of the U.S. District Court in Kansas has a simple strategy: "If someone comes to me [...]

GETTING AHOLD OF A SPACE LAWYER CAN BE DIFFICULT THESE DAYS. Lots of lawyers travel lots, but for Joanne Gabrynowicz, director of the Air and Space Law Center at the [...]

IT MAY BE HARD TO REMEMBER now, but when the Bush administration came into power, it said fighting Internet pornography would be a priority. At their confirmation hearings, U.S. Attorneys [...]

Last year, more than 30 major e-discovery companies were acquired or merged, or they disappeared. To an outside observer, it looks like an industry that is shrinking or contracting. But [...]

FROM A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE, OUTSOURCING LEGAL SERVICES ought to be a no-brainer: Most modern businesses increase profits and productivity by outsourcing functions to third parties. But getting outsourcing services into [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OUTER SPACE is nothing like the movies. Contrary to popular imagination, there no space armadas, Death Stars or laser battles above Earth. Only a handful of humans have [...]

TO GRASP HOW THE U.S. Supreme Court has come to regard business law, start--of all places--with a dissent in a death penalty case: "In the end," wrote Justice John Paul [...]

ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION was supposed to take over the legal profession. With the rise of the Internet, artificial intelligence and other clever bits of technology, lawyers would be able to [...]

E-MAIL 1 Empty your e-mail inbox daily. 2 Change your e-mail settings so the system doesn't alert you every time a message comes in, as many systems do. Outlook can [...]

ANDY LEIPOLD, A PROFESSOR AT the University of Illinois College of Law, was researching the right to a jury trial when a statistic involving federal criminal cases jumped out at [...]

he Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act calls for lawyers working for financial institutions to disclose hacking against their computer network, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 negligent handling of confidential medical information. Observers describe the as too harsh the punishment for hackers called for in the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Several federal laws aimed at protecting children from Internet pornography and case law discussing these laws are summarized. The acts are quite recent, starting in the late 1990s.

The ease of discovery of electronic documents is discussed. The new information created entirely in a digital format comes to 93%, meaning today's discovery should be almost entirely in an electronic format. Costs can escalate if the pretrial stage turns combative.

RICHARD LEO IS ONE OF A HANDFUL of nationally recognized experts in the psychological science of how people are influenced and make decisions under duress. When defense attorneys began to [...]

ATTORNEY JOE ARMSTRONG SAYS THAT A FEW YEARS AGO, a client asked him to join a Skype conference call. He accepted the meeting, and then realized in a panic that [...]

New reseller programs put R/3 into the hands of smaller companies. With only 20 resellers in the U.S., and an image as a Fortune 500-class business product, R/3 might seem […]

The year 2000, self-service, and smaller departments are all taxing HR's capabilities. For every new employee who waits weeks to get a first paycheck, there's a human resources (HR) manager […]

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S EXPANSIVE VIEW OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER HAS BEEN AT THE CENTER of the legal debate since 9/11. Supporters maintain that presidents need a greater authority to act during [...]

When Jonathan Askin's students at Brooklyn Law School suggested organizing a "hackathon," he thought it was a risky proposition. Would other legal professionals think he was promoting illicit or even [...]

THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE STAFF will have generated I about a billion emails by the time a new president is ready to be sworn in. Given the inevitable litigation and [...]

DSL PIONEER COVAD MAKES A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO STAY ALIVE. THE HOPES OF THE LITTLE GUYS ARE RIDING ON IT. It's hardly even news anymore when a telecom company files [...]

Just when it seemed things couldn't get any worse for Lucent Technologies, the company missed its third-quarter numbers. Last week's news of lower revenues and a $3.25 billion loss seemed […]

Just when Internet companies needed some good news, online ratings firms have begun confirming everyone's worst suspicions: Growth in the number of new Internet users seems to be fizzling. In […]

Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch of the Cellular Revolution By James Murray (Perseus, $27.50) NEARLY 117 MILLION Americans subscribe to mobile phone services, and a monolithic telco industry, led by […]

Back when Lucent was a Wall Street darling -- if you can remember such a time -- CEO Rich McGinn expanded the company into 11 divisions, each with its own […]

When AT&T said last October it was splitting into four units, a lot of people in the cable industry started salivating: The nation's biggest operator, AT&T Broadband, was going to […]