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• Employers May Utilize Electronic I-9 Forms ( March 2005 )
  Lisa A. Royee of Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP

  President Bush recently signed into law HR 4306, allowing for the electronic storage of, and new electronic signatures on, I-9 forms. This law will immediately go into effect on April 28, 2005, unless the Department of Homeland Security issues regulations before then.

• The Impact of Discovery Limitations and Cost-Sharing on the Corporate Class Action Defendant after Zubulake ( September 2003 )
  Curtis P. Cheyney and James C. Haggerty of Swartz Campbell LLC

  Corporate defendants today are faced with numerous discovery dilemmas stemming from the increasing use of electronic information storage. The exponential growth of computer use in both the business and private sector has led to an explosion of information stored on hard drives, floppy disks, and back-up storage devices. Data can be in the obvious form raw data, or the less obvious cookie and cache files, metadata or other embedded data. Even data believed deleted may still be retrievable from file servers.

• Can an Employer Monitor the Telephone Calls of an Employee Who the Employer Believes is Revealing Confidential Company Trade Secrets? ( June 2003 )
  George F. Yuska of Stark & Stark, Attorney at Law

  Does an employer have the right to monitor telephone conversations of its employees if the employer believes its employees are revealing confidential information and/or trade secrets? The question must be reviewed under both Federal and State law.

• Electronic Signature Standards Create Contracting Options ( October 2002 )
  Barry J. Hurewitz of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

  When the federal 'electronic signature' law was enacted nearly two years ago, proponents predicted a rapid shift toward electronic transactions. Critics feared a plague of fraud, privacy invasions, and identity theft. The current state of electronic contracting is somewhere between these extremes.

• Governor Ridge Signs Pennsylvania Electronic Transactions Act ( October 2000 )
  Saul Ewing LLP

  On December 16, 1999, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge signed into law Senate Bill 555, the Electronic Transactions .

• Intercepting Wire And Oral Communications ( October 2000 )
  Eric W. Reecher of Elliott, Lawson & Minor P.C.

  In both Tennessee and Virginia it is unlawful to intercept any wire, oral, or electronic communication unless the i.

• e-Sign Act Raises the Speed Limit on the Information Superhighway ( September 2000 )
  Matthew L. P. Cummings of Nexsen Pruet, LLC

  This article discusses the benefits and limitations of the new e-Sign Act which will become effective on October 1, 2000.

• The Electronic Signatures In Global And National Commerce Act ( July 2000 )
  Arent Fox LLP

  This article reviews the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act which will take effect on October 1, 2000.

• New E-Signature Laws Click Into Action ( July 2000 )
  Saul Ewing LLP

  The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act ("ESIGN") 1 , most of which becomes effective on Octo.

• California Is First State In Nation To Adopt Electronic Contracting Law--Thelen Reid Report No. 26 ( November 1999 )
  Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

  This article provides an overview of California Senate Bill 820, adopting the Uniform Electronic Transaction Act.