I. Introduction- Understanding Your Mission

Most attorneys recognize efficiencies that can be gained by using litigation-support technology, but many are still climbing the front of the learning curve on the use of technology to enhance the effectiveness of jury presentations. Although most defense counsel no longer worry about technology creating a deep pockets impression with the jury, some still struggle to identify the right technology for a given case.

Your trial is looming, and you need to show the jury two short videotaped depositions. Your trial budget is small, and the client does not want to pay for a media specialist or paralegal to show only two depositions. Various partners have commandeered all of the laptops loaded with trial presentation software. The other partners, not being tech-savvy or even readers of the DRI Technology Committee newsletter, do not want to pay for another license just for your trial. Not wanting to lug a VCR and television into the courtroom, you resign yourself to having your secretary read the deposition from the stand, and hoping that the jury will manage to stay awake.

It’s the middle of the night and you’re sound asleep in the comforts of your home – a home paid for by the proceeds of your hard defense work. But not everyone is asleep. Joe Plaintiff just made his second pot of coffee. He’s five minutes away from sending you a detailed email via a link on your firm’s website requesting that you represent him in a lawsuit against ABC Corp. – your biggest client. Will the email create a client-lawyer relationship?

The Spanish Unfair Competition Act (LCD) is being used as a tool to control market behavior. The application of the LCD by the Commercial Courts has evolved from the classical cases, related to imitation of products, to more complex behaviors.

I.- CLASSICAL TOPICS

Classical unfair competition
Classical examples refer to obvious anti-concurrence behaviors easily recognizable by the average consumer: imitation, confusion, deceit, slander, collation,

Technology has changed the practice of law. Whether it be voice recognition software, on-line searchable databases of legal knowledge or practice management suites to better manage billable hours and case files, the practice of law today is dramatically different from what it was even 5 years ago.

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