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Write Better Legal Documents With Microsoft Word

whitepaper A large part of any attorney's job consists of trying to persuade someone (a client, opposing counsel, an arbitrator, a judge) that the legal arguments one is making are not only factually and legally correct, but logical as well.

Tags: business management

[12 May 2008]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News The Attorney General's Office for England and Wales (AGO) wants a National Fraud Reporting Centre to collate reports of all types of fraud - both cyber and traditional - to pinpoint levels of fraud across the two countries.

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

Ex-McAfee exec charged with fraud

News Kent Roberts, 50, of Dallas, is accused of "granting himself and others valuable in-the-money stock options while hiding the true nature and value of the stock option grants from Network Associates, its board, its shareholders, its auditors, the...

Tags: backdating, stock options, mcafee

[28 Feb 2007]

Dell issues "preliminary" profits report

News Depending on the outcome of the investigations, by the SEC and by the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, these numbers might not hold. At that point, analysts had been expecting revenue of $14.4bn and profits per share of 24 cents.

Tags: dell computer, dell

[22 Nov 2006]

Fake airline boarding pass website shut down

News The FBI will present the findings of its investigation to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana, which will determine whether Soghoian violated any federal laws, the spokeswoman said.

Tags: boarding pass, pass

[31 Oct 2006]

Google wi-fi rollout begins

News Kurt Opsahl, staff attorney at the EFF, said he still had questions about how secure user data would be under the proposal. If we get to the point that we decide that providing ads to end users is a benefit, then we might do it," he said.

Tags: wi-fi, google

[08 Jun 2006]

Microsoft antitrust diktat set to run until 2009

News Deputy assistant attorney general, J Bruce McDonald, said in the statement: "The Department of Justice is committed to full and vigorous enforcement of the Microsoft final judgment. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson at one point ordered such a move...

Tags: antitrust, microsoft, doj

[15 May 2006]

Google must capitulate to DoJ, says judge

News Aclu attorney Aden Fine told Ware that his organisation would "certainly need to know" additional information about how Google's search engine works, in order to rebut the Justice Department study. Search data obtained from Google by the Justice...

Tags: doj, google

[15 Mar 2006]

Opinion: The weak point of wikis

Comment The 78-year-old Seigenthaler - a former assistant attorney general working under Bobby Kennedy - got Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to delete the defamatory information in October. The communal publishing methods of wikis have proved popular - but...

Tags: wiki, wikipedia

[05 Dec 2005]

All US passports to be RFID chipped

News Lee Tien, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which co-authored the comments, said: "Our point is, whatever Congress may have meant in giving the State Department authority to issue passports was probably to issue passports that...

Tags: rfid, passports

[26 Oct 2005]

Judge to SCO: "Where's your evidence?"

News Carr & Ferrell attorney John Ferrell said: "Based on the scathing language of the ruling, it appears that SCO just barely dodged a possible knockout punch in this round. If you win on that point, what's left?

[10 Feb 2005]

Way to win in online music? Sign a star

Comment Still, insiders said pay-for-play arrangements using independent record promoters as middlemen continued long afterward for years, ultimately leading to an investigation by the New York attorney general this year.

Tags: online music, ipod, apple

[29 Nov 2004]

Feds rule on VoIP control

News Phillip Marchesiello, an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C.who has followed the lawsuit, said: "The court doesn't have a lot of room after this recent decision by the FCC. Bill Wilhelm, an attorney at Swidler Berlin...

[16 Nov 2004]

Spammer's back with spyware

Spammer's back with spyware

Comment Dave Baker, an attorney for internet service provider EarthLink, which has been an active participant in anti-spyware efforts, said: "Very much like with spam and the spam legislation last year, spyware can be fought through a combination of...

Tags: spam, sanford wallace, spyware

[12 Oct 2004]

Conway: Ellison is more Genghis Khan than a sociopath

News In a response to a question from an Oracle attorney about his invocation of the term "sociopath," Conway replied, "I was referring to Oracle as a sociopathic company. While the exchange drew chuckles from courtroom observers, Oracle is hoping to...

Tags: ellison, conway, peoplesoft

[07 Oct 2004]

RFID chips headed for hospitals?

RFID chips headed for hospitals?

News VeriChip, a division of Applied Digital Solutions, generated headlines worldwide recently with the announcement that the Attorney General of Mexico implanted one of the small company's RFID tags in his arm.

Tags: rfid

[28 Jul 2004]

Analysis: Ellison's defining moment

Analysis: Ellison's defining moment

Comment As Ellison told Justice Department attorney Claude Scott under cross-examinatio: "From my point of view, there are no benefits if we don't get PeopleSoft. One pesky detail proved the tripping point: neither Conway nor Ellison was willing to let the...

Tags: takeover, larry ellison, oracle, peoplesoft

[05 Jul 2004]

Microsoft and SAP scared Oracle into attempted acquisition

Microsoft and SAP scared Oracle into attempted acquisition

News At one point however, Walker prodded Oracle attorney Daniel Wall to ask the CEO some more questions during one of Ellison's more long-winded responses. The outspoken CEO was characteristically unflappable under cross-examination by Justice...

[01 Jul 2004]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.06.04

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.06.04

Round-Up At one point Oracle's attorney Dan Wall said the whole thing was leaving him rather "befuddled" - which is firstly an excellent use of an underappreciated word and secondly a very welcome admission from somebody who should have the clearest idea...

[11 Jun 2004]

Oracle trial judge frustrated by "market definition"

Oracle trial judge frustrated by "market definition"

News During cross-examination, Oracle attorney Tom Rosch suggested JD Edwards was capable of moving into the enterprise market but had abandoned those efforts in the 1990s because it believed the arena was already saturated during the Y2K preparations.

[11 Jun 2004]

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