The old adage "All’s fair in love and [corporate] war" is alive and kicking in Corporate America these days. When it comes to illegal network intrusions, via cyber-terrorism or espionage, most of us conjure up images of some overweight "Techie", with thick-rimmed eyeglasses, sitting at home in front of a half dozen computer screens, trying […]
Corporations engaged in international business transactions may be greeted by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, upon re-entry into the United States, with a warrantless seizure of its proprietary corporate data. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held, in U.S. v. Arnold, that customs officers need no reasonable suspicion to […]
UCLA Medical Center for years has been the hospital of choice for public figures in Southern California – mainly because of its convenient location to where prominent celebrities live (e.g. Brentwood, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, etc.) and its state-of-the-art facilities. However, UCLA Medical Center has also been the epicenter for violation of patient privacy laws in the United […]
Recently, I wrote an article about Avvo.com winning a lawsuit filed in the New Jersey courts requesting that the Garden State’s bar association turn over records of active lawyers practicing in that state. After writing that article I decided to take a further look at what Avvo.com could do for my law practice, and so […]
Mr. Steve Lohr, of The New York Times, wrote an article about a research study published in The New England Journal of Medicine by two Doctors (Kenneth D. Mandl & Issac S. Kohane) who opine that with the emergence of companies, like Microsoft and Google, into the Healthcare Records Storage Industry, a dramatic and "seismic" challenge […]
The 2008 election season is in full swing. Democrats and Republicans are jockeying for their constituents votes by pandering to their respective party’s base, and hoping that independent voters will put them over the top to get elected. In some states, like Washington, this is extended into the third branch of government – the […]
GET THE MONEY!!! That is the mantra every entrepreneur should be saying to themselves throughout the day. The one thing every business enterprise needs is money! This may seem like a very trivial concept, but it is easier said than done. From trying to get your clients to pay their invoices, to motivating […]
Every business starts with an idea or concept. A mother having a difficult time reselling toys her children have out-grown develops a website for renting kids toys. A man in mid-town Manhattan develops a bagel slicer that perfecting cuts bagels in half. A track coach in Eugene, OR, makes running shoes out of a waffle-iron. […]
The Fair and Accurate Transaction Credit Act, or "FACTA", is a federal law which, among other things, was enacted in response to the rise of identity theft-related crimes. One provision of FACTA makes it illegal to print on a receipt more than the last 5 digits of a credit card number or the card’s expiration date. […]
On Tuesday, April 1, 2008, the New Jersey judiciary notified Seattle-based internet company, Avvo, Inc., that it has complied with the company’s request to release information on tens of thousands of lawyers in that state. According to its website, Avvo is a web-based company that rates and profiles lawyers for search purposes by the […]