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You Know Who Really Loves Smartphones? Divorce Lawyers.

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 8 at 10:19 am PT

Data from smartphones — everything from text messages and email to GPS data and Internet search history — is increasingly being used as evidence in divorce court.

Cisco to HP: Please Stop Suing Those Employees We Poach

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 23, 2011 at 12:47 pm PT

Cisco’s general counsel asks Hewlett-Packard to quit suing its own ex-employees who want to work for Cisco. But aggressive lawyers are suing ex-employees all the time.

Building eBay for Lawyers

Vanessa O'Connell, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 23, 2011 at 12:22 am PT

Auction sites like eBay work pretty well if you’re looking for a hard-to-track-down piece of flatware. But can they work for lawyers’ services? Many attorneys have doubts, but a 21-year-old law student named Robert Grant Niznik is putting his money–or more candidly, he says, his parents’ money–behind a Web site called Shpoonkle that will let lawyers bid for clients.

HP Plans Another Probe Into Hurd Departure

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 5:10 pm PT

A new set of independent lawyers may be tapped to revisit the circumstances of how Mark Hurd came to resign as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, court filings show.

Sony Decides It Doesn’t Want to Be Left Out of Cellphone Patent Fight

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 29, 2010 at 9:53 pm PT

Sony has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission against Korean rival LG, alleging patent infringement. It’s the latest legal challenge in an epidemic of cellphone-related patent disputes.

Mark Hurd Really Wants to Keep the Jodie Fisher Letter Private

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 28, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT

Shareholders suing HP want to make public the letter that cost Hurd his job as CEO. He disagrees, and has asked a judge to let him become a party to the lawsuit.

Night-Table Reading: The FCC's Net Neutrality Rules In Full

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 23, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT

It’s now been two days since the Federal Communications Commission voted to pass its controversial network neutrality rules, and the consensus is clear–no one is terribly happy. Now we have a full text of the actual rules–the 194-page document that lawyers, lawmakers and lobbyists will be combing through in the coming weeks and months.

When Facebook Bought ConnectU From the Winklevii (Or, Parsing Legal Filings for Fun)

Liz Gannes in Social on December 10, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

Earlier this week there was some confusion about outlets reporting that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss had filed another lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their social networking idea. The brief was actually filed back in June, but it’s still interesting reading.

Going, Going: LimeWire Shutters Online Store, Too

Peter Kafka in Media on December 2, 2010 at 10:38 am PT

LimeWire, the high-profile file-sharing company, more or less shut down in October, following a federal court ruling. But the last bits of the company seem to be going away: Its online music store will be shuttered at the end of the month, and I’m told that plans to launch a new music service have been shelved.

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