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« Older EntriesPolicyTool: Policy for the Masses
Lawyer, Slawyer, and newspaper columnist David Canton has teamed up with rtraction, an Ontario IT company, to produce PolicyTool. The notion is that businesses need policies in place to govern a variety of employee practices but can’t always afford the services of a lawyer to devise them; PolicyTool invites you to answer a number of [...]
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Archiving Data
Most of us today are blithely heading for our own personal data disasters. We generate and store vast volumes of information, but few of us really look after it.
So says the New Scientist. And then there’s the matter of professional data. Ever since solicitors invented deed boxes and tying docs up in pink ribbon — [...]
E-Health Records Symposium
On January 28, 2010, the Law Commission of Ontario and IP Osgoode held a Symposium on electronic medical records. The Symposium brought together experts from law, academia, health and other areas as part of the consultation that Professor Pina D’Agostino is carrying out in her project on the intersection of IP, ethics and privacy issues [...]
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Is a Printed Document Defective in Law?
Dominic Jaar has an interesting article in the droit-inc blog (en français) suggesting that a printed document may have less legal impact than the electronic original, because the printout does not reproduce all the information in the original, notably not the metadata. And these days, pretty well all documents start in electronic form, in a [...]
Posted in Contract Law, Document Management, Drafting, Internet Law, Interpretation, Québec, ulc_ecomm_list | 1 Comment »>
Bott & Company Launch Ambulance Chaser iPhone App
I’ve joked previously that the Google crowdsource traffic feature was a free ambulance chaser application.
It seems a British firm has developed a iPhone application specifically intended to document all the details necessary for future litigation, the iPhone Car Incident Assistant application (iCIA). The Times Online reports:
It appears ambulance chasing has gone digital after Bott & [...]
Should Law Offices Go Paperless
At issue in the GasTOPS trial was the development and sale of a software program for the computerized maintain of jet engines and aircraft. The benefits of a Computerized Maintenance Management System are that it reduces maintenance mistakes while at the same time reducing labour costs.
When I fly on an airplane or ride on [...]
A New Discovery…
♫ And gazing down from yonder,
On a world of blue and green,
He’ll say with eyes of wonder,
I have seen, i have seen,
My eyes have seen…♫
Lyrics, music and recorded by Chris de Burgh.
A lawyer friend of mine told me about his recent use of his new Sony Reader in Court. No, this wasn’t to [...]
This Week’s Biotech Highlights
While I bounced back and forth between Toronto and New York this week, a lot of other things were bouncing around in the world of biotech:
The U.S. stimulus funding to promote adoption of electronic medical records bounced across the border to Ontario, where a new program was implemented through the Ontario Medical Association. The Ontario [...]
Lawyers Weekly Talks About Online Collaboration
In his regular column for Lawyers Weekly Magazine, freelance technology writer Luigi Benetton has a piece in the Aug. 21, 2009 issue on drafting and editing documents in real-time.
He discusses real-time applications like NetMeeting, and asynchronous platforms like wikis and traditional DMS. He suggests the latter are more appropriate for lawyers who don’t collaborate as [...]
Updates on KM in Law Firms
Two recent interesting articles on knowledge management in law firms you might find useful:
Knowledge management: The number of knowledge management lawyers is on the rise, but the field is still working out some kinks (Lawyers Weekly) by Milton Kiang, June 26, 2009 issue
Interviews with various Canadian KM directors, talking about where we are with knowledge [...]
About electronic medical records – not what you think!
The impetus for the upcoming project on electronic medical records, to be carried out by Professor Pina D’Agostino, in assocation with the Law Commission of Ontario, was not all the notoriety around consulting contracts at eHealth Ontario, but all the talk in the news and Ontario legislature about the agency has motivated me to talk [...]
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A Highway Code for Data Handling
There’s much practical advice in the British Computing Society and the Information Security Awareness Forum’s new publication Personal Data Guardianship Code released today.
If you don’t think there’s a need, a recent 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report from IT provider Verizon Business suggested that 285 million records were compromised in 2008.
Of course, the lawyers got to [...]
Twitter, e-Discovery and Decontextualization
There’s a piece by Debra Logan on the Gartner Blog Network, “Twitter and e-Discovery,” that goes over some fairly straightforward stuff about e-discovery and social media. What struck me as interesting was an observation at the end of the piece, pointing out that because of the briefness of a tweet, it is more likely decontextualized [...]
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More on Facebook Evidence
The media are slowly picking up on the number of court cases that are requiring disclosure of Facebook and other social network pages in litigation. SunMedioa has a story today — see, e.g. “Social networking plays out in court” in the North Bay Nugget, and yesterday there was a story on Canoe Technology, “Facebook [...]
Posted in Document Management, Document Repositories, E-Discovery, Privacy Law, Security, ulc_ecomm_list | 2 Comments »>
Is It OK for Regulators to Make a Mirror Copy of Files?
Lawyers’ Weekly reports that the Law Society of BC is considering whether it should be able to insist on doing a complete copy of a member’s computer in the course of an investigation. Pros and cons are discussed in the article, along with the proposed policy.
Concerns raised have included the lawyer/member’s privacy, and solicitor-client privilege.
Could [...]
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