New York City Bar Association
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NYC Bar Association Breach: A Wake-up Call for the Legal Industry By Mark Rosch The Breach: A Timeline of Events In December 2022, the Cl0p ransomware gang claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the teh New York City Bar Association. The gang boasted that their breach gave them access to 1.8 terabytes of stolen data about the Association's 27,000 members. Despite the early...
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In a verdict handed down Thursday, May 26, 2016, jurors found that Google’s use of basic elements of the Java programming language to build its Android mobile operating system was a fair use under federal copyright law. While this is an important case in the fair use/copyright milieu, an earlier order by Judge Alsup is nearly as important to those following juror social media research...
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As noted in Carole Levitt's new ABA book, Internet Legal Research on a Budget (co-authored with Judy K. Davis), forty-eight state bar associations subscribe to legal research databases on behalf of their members as a member benefit. Recently, the New York City Bar Association added access to Casemaker's premium services as a free benefit for their members. ...
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More and more attorneys and judges are using social media. Some use it for its intended purpose of social networking (and, for the lesser intended purpose of marketing). Others take advantage of the information contained in these sites for an unintended purpose - investigative research. Legal pundits have argued (online and in print) about the ethical issues for attorneys utilizing this...
