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The judge in the above matter, Albert J Cepparulo of Bucks County, Pa., Common Pleas Court ruled that the plaintiff did not have to accept a Facebook friend request from the defendant in order that the defendant gets full access to the plaintiff’s postings and pictures. The defendant in this matter had already conceded liability [...]

Hands up those of you knew this about e-discovery?  Well as we are now in the age of electronic discovery you will find that a large majority of client’s costs are now incurred through having to produce electronically held information. Remember those days when discovery would consist of exchanging document lists, review those lists, gather [...]

A proposal that lawyers not be able to call their support staff “paralegals” unless they are Florida Registered Paralegals has been presented to the Bar Board of Governors, which could act on the recommendation at its May 27 meeting. The Special Committee to Study Mandatory Paralegal Regulation presented its majority and minority reports at the [...]

What is the Florida e-portal agreement? The Florida e-portal agreement has been likened to an electronic door at the courthouse.  You don’t need to physically step through it to file your papers you can do this now electronically. All the parties that were needed to be consulted with the new way of filing your court [...]

First thing is that you have to register with the portal as you would register with anything – choose a user name, password, provide a primary e-mail address and the usual type of security question too.  Submit. Next step is that you get an email asking you to verify the submitted email address is correct.  [...]

Chief Justice Charles Canady inferred that this could be the case as he argued just last Tuesday in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee that cutting the budget would be problematic. “Well, that’s understandable”, I thought, “given that the court system is bogged down with so many foreclosure claims. This in turn will mean there [...]

Working with Cases You’ll NEED an iPad so you can have TrialPad! I know we all want an iPad more than anything to help with our business right? But what about the cost, what does it bring to the business? Well now it brings not just any new tool, it bring the TrialPad, which has [...]

Write this down, or more appropriately mark it with a bookmark, add it to your favorites, or put a placeholder on it — whatever your Internet browser allows: www.myflcourtaccess.com. (This link is expected to become active by January 1.) That’s the official online address for the Florida court system’s new statewide e-portal, the mechanism that [...]

Jason R. Baron and Ralph C. Losey collaborated to create a “Did You Know?” type of music video on electronic discovery law. This video presents some of the amazing facts behind the information explosion and rapid advances in technology. It also explains some of the negative impacts this is having on the law. Lawyers around [...]

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