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• How to Vet an Expert ( June 2007 )
  Robert J Ambrogi of

  Experts, sad to say, are not always honest about their credentials, as several recent news items confirm. Knowing how to verify the background of an expert – whether yours or your opponent's – could prove critical to your case.

• Protecting Your Intellectual Property Online ( January 2007 )
  

  Download your Complimentary Legal Kit: Protecting Your Intellectual Property Online to learn about the latest trends and defensive best practices to combat online threats to your intellectual property. This great collection includes educational white papers, on-demand webinars and fact sheets to guide your organization’s online trademark protection strategies – establishing, monitoring and enforcing your intellectual property rights.

• Privacy Policies: Beware of Changes ( August 2004 )
  Justine Young Gottshall of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP

  If you operate a web site, you should take note of a recent Federal Trade Commission consent order, which is the first FTC case to challenge deceptive and unfair practices in connection with material changes to an online privacy policy.

• Defining an "Applicant" in the High Tech World: Emploment Law Alert, March 2004 ( March 2004 )
  Leslie P. Arrington of Nixon Peabody LLP

  This alert discusses the guidance provided by the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures. By adopting a few simple procedures and ensuring that human resources staff handling the recruitment and selection process are well trained, employers will be able to use the advantages of technology for recruiting and hiring while still adhering to UGESP requirements.

• Maryland Courts Establish New Business and Technology Case Management Program ( February 2004 )
  Ralph A. Taylor of Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

  Maryland Rule 16-205 established the Maryland Business and Technology Case Management Program to enable each Maryland circuit court to handle business and technology matters in a coordinated, efficient, and responsive manner. Maryland, which is home to a large concentration of biotech and aerospace companies, hopes the new program will increase the State's reputation as a premier forum for the effective resolution of complex technology disputes.

• FCC Consumer Facts—High Speed Internet Access – "Broadband" ( August 2003 )
  Federal Communications Commission

  High-speed Internet access (sometimes loosely referred to as "broadband Internet access" or simply "broadband") allows users to access the Internet and Internet-related services at significantly higher speeds than traditional modems.

• Safe at Any Speed: How to Stay Safe Online if You Use High-Speed Internet Access ( August 2003 )
  Federal Trade Commission

  The best protection against hackers and viruses is your personal commitment to online safety. If you use a high-speed connection to access the Internet, you can take precautions to better protect your time, the information on your computer and the security of our nation.s computer networks.

• FY Intellectual Property--Summer 2003 ( August 2003 )
  Shulman Rogers Gandal Pordy & Ecker, P.A.

  Measures for the creation and maintenance of an effective Web site include the following guidelines intended to facilitate both easy navigation by viewers or visitors and the protection of the Web site owner.

• SEC Adopts Final Rules Mandating Electronic Filing and Web Site Posting of Forms 3, 4 and 5 ( May 2003 )
  Laura C. HodgesTaylor, Elizabeth Shea Fries, Stephen W. Carr, P.C., Jeffrey C. Hadden and James A. Matarese of Goodwin Procter LLP

  On May 7, 2003, the SEC adopted amendments to its rules and forms that will require electronic filing with the SEC of Forms 3, 4 and 5 by officers, directors and 10% stockholders (commonly referred to as "insiders") of public companies; and Web site posting by public companies of the forms filed by their insiders with respect to their outstanding securities by the end of the business day after the filing.