Digital Practice of Law

Use of Computers in the Courtroom.

Objecting to high-tech prosecutors.  "Bergen County prosecutors could soon replace the boxes and carts they drag to courtrooms with something less bulky: wireless laptops. By next year, all criminal courts at the county courthouse in Hackensack could have a system that allows certain laptop users to connect to the Internet, access networks and conduct online legal research in the courtroom without being tethered to a phone line, said Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli. But not everyone is hailing the new technology. Although championed by many as convenient and time-saving, the service will be available only to prosecutors - who are paying for it out of their budget. . . "

Archived Web Pages

Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit. "The Internet Archive was created in 1996 as the institutional memory of the online world, storing snapshots of ever-changing Web sites and collecting other multimedia artifacts. Now the nonprofit archive is on the defensive in a legal case that represents a strange turn in the debate over copyrights in the digital age.  Beyond its utility for Internet historians, the Web page database, searchable with a form called the Wayback Machine, is also routinely used by intellectual property lawyers to help learn, for example, when and how a trademark might have been historically used or violated. . . "