The skyrocketing cost of eDiscovery has made headlines recently with several court cases setting precedents in favor of supporting huge eDiscovery costs. For example, a January circuit court decision required the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight to spend $6 million (totaling 9 percent ...

I know you may not be feeling this way depending on where you live, but Spring is in the air.  How do I know? Easy, my anniversary has just passed.  For the 19 years I have been married, I know that once my anniversary is over it will soon be Spring.  Sort of my own bird like instinct maybe.  Wh...

So here’s a copy of the new letter Pico-Robertson’s Modern Orthodox rabbis are sending to local businesses owned by Jews. Will this high profile campaign do any good or will it only make rabbis feel good for grandstanding on a complex topic? I want to emphasize one sentence from this new...

It’s that time of year again: tax time.  As we all pay buku to our local CPAs to fill out forms we’re either too incompetent or too uninterested to fill out ourselves, we cringe at the idea of a federal tax audit and dread dealing with IRS agents on the phone: people who won’t giv...

Senator Carl Levin (D-Mi) and several representatives--Rosa DeLauro (D-Ct), Lloyd Doggett (D-Tx) and Sander Levin (D-Mi)-- have written Peter Orszag, Obama's OMB Director, asking the Obama Administration to include in the FY 2010 budget proposal measures from the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act (HR 213...

Did you know: Businesses around the world create more than 7.5 billion documents and that 35% of these documents contain legally sensitive information? Thought so. In most work environments and organizations, IS departments try to provide a shared place for users to store and interact with files. In...

Last month, real estate columnist Steve Brown shot off a nice little rant about how bank regulators were forcing banks to clamp down so hard on real estate lending that they were denying credit to good borrowers as well as bad ones. The Kansas City Business Journal provides further evidence of this ...

Jody Lee, Compliance Manager, Johnson & Dugan San Francisco employers should be aware of the upcoming deadline to submit the Annual Reporting form for the Health Care Security Ordinance (Healthy San Francisco) to the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE). For-profit employers with 20 or m...

I used to play baseball in high school and college. I even played in an over thirty league back in the mid eighties. When my child Sarah was born in 1991, baseball wasn’t something I thought she would ever be interested in. But when she was about six, I took her over to the park to hit some baseba...

Last week I was back to doing what I really love doing – rolling up my sleeves and working with customers. I was pegged to lead a 2-day strategy session with Telligent customer Insurance.com with the goal being to help the client understand not only the technology specifics, but more importantly t...