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By the year 2010, the New York City Police Department plans to photograph and track every vehicle that enters Manhattan. The goal of the program, “Operation Sentinel,” is to fight terrorism by collecting data from every vehicle traveling along seven ...

Telephone taping and electronic surveillance — it sounds simple. The rule — both federal and state — is that eavesdropping is illegal, and both oral and telephone communications cannot be surreptitiously recorded without court authorization. Indeed, the stated purpose of ...

Sometimes I think managing my wife’s expectations is just as important as managing my client’s. Recently a case we’ve been working on had a chance to settle, and everyone was optimistic about our chances. I informed my wife of this, ...

Shielding your eyes against the glare of a Trump tower or marveling at its creator’s shameless self-promotion on his NBC-TV show, you get the impression that Donald Trump likes to see his name bandied about. He plasters it on hotel ...

Sometimes I think managing my wife’s expectations is just as important as managing my client’s. Recently a case we’ve been working on had a chance to settle, and everyone was optimistic about our chances. I informed my wife of this, ...

In the past, signing on the dotted line for a cell phone contract was akin to snapping a lock shut and throwing away the key. The only way to unlock the contract was to pay a high termination fee that ...

Both houses of Congress and President George W. Bush recently signed off on revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which minimally increase oversight but leave all past practices — legal or not — under a veil of secrecy. Telecommunication ...

In an effort to combat the somewhat nebulous concept of “terrorism,” laptops and other digital devices are currently subject to warrantless inspections at the border. On July 16, in response to demands from civil liberties groups, two Department of Homeland ...

There are several common misapprehensions about lawyers’ professional liability, or LPL, insurance that brokers and malpractice attorneys see among their clients. In this column, we address some of the more widespread misconceptions. If I do something wrong, the policy in ...

Some unrelated thoughts while waiting for about 100 people to get back from summer vacation so they can return my phone calls… An interesting story developed this summer at the Minneapolis law firm of Lindquist & Vennum. Two female summer ...

The days of buying hundreds of dollars of computer software to run your office are coming to an end. The lawyer of tomorrow will have a Web browser on his computer, but the remainder of his tools will be on ...