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A new attorney right out of law school or a lawyer going solo is often met with the challenge of finding new clients. In this edition of The Un-Billable Hour, host Attorney Rodney Dowell, Director of the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program, welcomes Erik Mazzone, Director of the Center for Practice Management at North Carolina Bar Association, to offer tips on how to find clients for your new practice. Rodney and Erik will discuss the referral network, the power of social networking and ultimately the importance of relationships.

Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, recently signed into law a strict immigration bill, the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SB1070 Act), igniting a nationwide discussion. Attorneys and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Attorney Marielena Hincapi, Executive Director of the National Immigration Law Center and Professor Paul Bender, at the Sandra Day OConnor College of Law at Arizona State University, to look at both sides of this controversial debate . They discuss the legality and constitutionality of this new law and what this means for the state of Arizona and immigration reform.

As somebody who writes the occasional book review, my attention was caught be the article in the current Chronicle of Higher Education, “Libel Case, Prompted by Academic Book Review, Has Scholars Worried.”(subscription required). Me too, maybe. Author of the book reviewed, Karin N. Calvo-Goller, a lawyer and senior lecturer at the Academic Center of Law & Business, a college in Israel, sued the editor of the journal that carried the review, Joseph H.H. Weiler, editor of the European Journal of International Law for criminal libel in French court. Mr. Weiler is a professor of law at New York University. Speculation is that the suit was set in France rather than the United States, where the journal is published, or Israel, where the plaintiff lives, because the European Union’s rules on freedom of expression are not as expansive. But this is entirely speculation, because Ms. Calvo-Goller has not responded to requests for comment, nor made any public comments. Here is a snippet from the article, by Jennifer Howard: Read the rest of this entry »

We are pleased to welcome Ben Sheffner, Senior Counsel, NBC Universal Television Group, to this week’s Intellectual Property podcast. Mr. Sheffner and Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau discuss Viacom’s suit of Youtube in this podcast.

Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog writes a great post about one national law firm that finally got tired of inefficient Westlaw searching eating away at their bottom line. They mandated “best practices” in Westlaw searching and a training lunch for all litigation associates, and any other associates who might use Westlaw.

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Many people seem to be in the market for new computers or other computer hardware these days. There are more choices than ever and big changes in the market that can be confusing, especially for people who haven’t been in the market for a few years. Have the traditional principles for buying computer hardware also started to change? In this episode, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell cover the new hardware waterfront and offer their current hardware buyer’s guide. After you listen, be sure to check out Tom & Dennis co-blog and book by the same name, The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies.

With the announcement that Justice John Paul Stevens will resign from the Supreme Court at the end of this term, Jonathan Band and Matt Schruers focus on one of his opinions that has had a direct daily impact on virtually all Americans: the majority opinion in Sony v. Universal, decided by the Supreme Court in 1984. This decision is the legal foundation of the Digital Age.

In this edition of the ESI Report, host Gina Jytyla, Managing Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack, welcomes attorney John Jablonski, Partner with Goldberg Segalla, LLP and Wayne Wong, Managing Consultant for Kroll Ontrack, to discuss how archiving technology can reduce costs, and assist with data management and defensible legal hold implementation. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent Kelly Kubacki focuses on the facts and discovery order issued in Gucci America, Inc. v. Curveal Fashion.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently filed civil fraud charges against investment bank, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Attorneys and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Attorney Jacob S. Frenkel, from Shulman Rogers Gandal Pordy & Ecker, P.A and Attorney Palmer C. Hamilton, a member of the Government Relations Practice Group at Jones Walker, to discuss the details of this lawsuit. They take a look at the SECs current role, the impact of the lawsuit, financial regulation legislation and what this means for Wall Street.

We are pleased to welcome Professor Darryl C. Wilson of Stetson University College of Law for this week’s Intellectual Property podcast.