Thursday 28 February 2008

California Bar Journal reviews legal metadata position

The California Bar Journal, in this article, presents an excellent round-up of the problems for lawyers, including the myth that PDF documents are safe from metadata leaks, and the latest legal position in the US. Worth reading.

Monday 18 February 2008

Eli Lilly’s lawyers accidentally emails confidential info to New York Times

We’ve been here before, but this is a corker. All the pieces of a classic ILP mistake: the $1bn lawsuit, the external law firm accidentally emailing confidential information to the wrong person, and the fact that the wrong person happened to be a New York Times reporter. Oops.

Law firms, get yourself some ILP tools now, before it’s you!