By: Harrison Lebov Filing cabinets. Filing cabinets everywhere…that’s the sight you’ll likely see if you walk into almost any traditional law firm in the United States. With the enormous mass of paperwork exchanged in a single lawsuit for a single client, it all has to go somewhere! Needless to say, it typically ends up in dusty,… Read More Forecast for Tomorrow’s Legal Workplace: Cloudy
By: Marissa Louro Technology has changed the way we fulfill necessities. E-mail is a faster medium than snail mail, and online news is more accurate than newspapers. Naturally, technology has complemented the legal world—as demonstrated by E-Discovery, online legal research, and attorneys using their iPads in courts. However, a new solution entitled, “LawGeex,” will… Read More LawGeex: Will Technology Replace the Need for Lawyers?
By: Harrison Lebov It is a well settled fact that inhalation of burning plant matter, namely tobacco, is detrimental to one’s health, and the harms can be manifested in the forms of cancer, lung disease, and the like. However, in recent years, a new method of smoking has made its way to center stage: vaping. This… Read More Is Vape Life a Safe Life?
By: Caroline Murphy There has been a lot of talk on the news, during the presidential debates, and in the House and Senate, on immigration law reform to handle foreign talent entering the United States labor market. While candidates shout out their proposals and news outlets discuss the issue on a daily basis, American academic… Read More Academic Institutions Step Up to the Plate with a Loophole to Prevent Current Immigration Laws from Blocking Technological Innovation into the United States
By: Marissa Louro While the use of technology in the legal world is a debated topic, there is no doubt that computers provide better organization, simplify processes, and speed up the time-consuming nature of legal proceedings. Prior to technology, lawyers relied on books when citing case law in their briefs, motions, etc. By 1989, Westlaw… Read More English High Court Approves the Use of Predictive Coding
By: John Brainard In passing the recent Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015 (“U.S. SPACE Act”), Congress allows U.S. companies to boldly drill where no man has drilled before. On November 25, 2015, President Obama signed the U.S. SPACE Act into law after being adapted from a piece of similar legislation known… Read More “Star” Wars 2016: Analysis of Celestial Property Rights Under H.R. 2262, and the International Opposition to the U.S. SPACE Act
By: Courtney Nicole Fears Computer science and technology are now considered requirements of a public school education. According to the Obama Administration, technology education should be a part of a core curriculum for children from Kindergarten through twelfth grade. In January, the Obama Administration announced the allotment of $4 Billion in funding for states to ensure… Read More Obama Allots $4 Billion into Technology Education
By: Jaclyn Collier It could be a movie premise. A bad guy with a vendetta hacks into his foe’s life-giving insulin pump and programs it to administer a lethal dose. A wife with her eyes on insurance money hacks into a hospital’s Bluetooth network and stops the defibrillator during her husband’s code blue. Sound crazy?… Read More FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Cybersecurity for Medical Devices
By: Nebyu Retta Overview His name is Maximilian. It’s not a name we hear everyday in the U.S. The name itself echoes sentiments of power, prominence and vision. It’s also perhaps somewhat reminiscent of the great and mighty Roman generals from centuries ago, “Maximas” and “Aemilus.” Well, maybe I’m taking things too far—especially… Read More One Giant Leap For Privacy: Europe Strikes Down Safe Harbor, Sweeping the Rug Under the Feet of US Tech Companies
By: Sayyedeh Parastoo Vakili As humans continue to accelerate towards cutting-edge technology, it is only logical for developing countries to move towards advancing their courts’ records system. These countries need a sophisticated court recording system similar to the United States Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) or the newly implemented Electronic Filing System (EFS)… Read More Will the E-filing System (EFS) Save the Court Records in Developing Countries?
By: Laura Stavetski Fitbit is among the top leading companies involved in producing consumer wearables. Consumer wearables are devices that can be worn on your actual person that have the capability to monitor and record physical activity such as heart rate, number of steps taken per day, and amount of calories burned. Additionally, these… Read More Loophole in HIPAA Allows Fitbit to Share Health Data with Third Parties
By: Rashi Mangalick Text messaging has far surpassed the amount of phone calls made in the United States for over seven years. New and innovative communication types have been emerging from the technology market and penetrating into other arenas for years, with many applications (“apps”) specifically devoted to messaging someone else at an instant rate.… Read More A Little Text Can Go a Long Way