Larry Zimmerman

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larryzimmerman — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:20:40 +0000

Electronic Filing Assignment

larryzimmerman — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:47:57 +0000

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts maintains an online efiling tutorial. You can find the tutorial here.

Review the Orientation and then complete the Complaints and Motions tutorials under Section 3: Civil Filings and then the Queries tutorial under Section 4: Reports.

LexisNexis also provides electronic filing systems for some state courts. Another component of their File & Serve product which allows counsel and parties to configure online litigation support sites for service and exchange of documents independent of the courts. Review the “Take a Tour” link of the File & Serve, Case-Based E-Service product here.

Once you’ve completed the tutorial on federal electronic case filing and the LexisNexis File & Serve product overview, complete this survey by end of class Wednesday, November 7.

Metadata Assignment

larryzimmerman — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:03:02 +0000

Jim Calloway’s article, Metadata – What Is It and What Are My Ethical Duties?, provides an overview of still-shifting ethics opinions on attorneys’ ethical obligations in dealing with metadata. The debate relates to whether attorneys should be allowed to use accidentally revealed metadata or even to actively solicit it surreptitiously.

1. Read Calloway’s article and the ABA update on Metadata Ethics Opinions.

2. Write and support your own opinion on the issue of whether a lawyer receiving accidentally disclosed metadata should be able to use it or not. This doesn’t have to be a detailed legal brief but should be an informed position documented by experience and analysis.

Please email your opinion to me by Wednesday, October 24, 2012.

Contingency Planning Assignment

larryzimmerman — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:46:00 +0000

The Federal Emergency Management Agency established Ready.gov website in 2003 to prompt individuals and businesses to evaluate readiness for disaster and to provide tools for contingency planning. While the information is basic, post-incident reviews of individual and business readiness following calamities like Katrina and the 9/11/2001 World Trade Center attacks revealed most have not even considered the basic planning Ready.gov helps initiate.

Your assignment for this section (due by Monday, September 24) will be to download the Emergency Response Plan Template. Complete the plan using your current or a prior place of employment as the model for completing the template (use aliases if preferred). Consider your evaluation and answers as if you were charged with producing a working continuity and disaster plan for your place of employment. Be thorough but honest; if there’s an area you cannot prepare for or do not know how to address, include that and identify who/what would be necessary to fill that gap.

Turn in the completed Emergency Response Plan by end of class on Monday, September 24).

Specific resources discussed in class are available here.

Computer Security Assignment

larryzimmerman — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:53:06 +0000

The Open Security Foundation maintains a website here that attempts to list all publicly revealed events where electronic data was lost or compromised.

Select two events from the database and read the associated articles discussing the breach and individuals affected. Note if there was any remediation of the breach mentioned. Once you’ve reviewed two of the breaches, complete this survey. Be sure your name is included on the survey.

You may also be interested in the OSF’s latest venture, cloutage.org, which attempts to document known security issues and outages related to “cloud computing.”

Please have the survey completed (with your name included) by Monday, September 17.

Specific statutes, sites, software, and services discussed in class are available here.

Larry Zimmerman

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Practice Management

Presentation and Trial Technologies/Techniques

“Virtual” Law Firm

Practice Tools

Online Courseware and Education

Fun Stuff (with a Practical Bent)

Fitness and Health

Electronic Filing Assignment

Metadata Assignment

Contingency Planning Assignment

Computer Security Assignment