The information related to carbon footprints provide valuable input in framing government policy formation, and offers insights to consumers to shape up their own climate friendly behavior. In order to generate climate benefits and decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the Australian Legal Sector Alliance (AusLSA), an industry-led association working to promote sustainable practices across the legal sector, has partnered with Greenstone Carbon Management.

The biggest dealer of consumer electronics in the United States - Best Buy - made a statement on Monday saying that its founder, Richard Schulze, has stepped down from the position of chairman in light of a recent incident within the company that spurred an investigation. The investigation turned up with results showing that the CEO of the company had an intimate relationship with a female employee. Schulze did not inform the company's audit committee, resulting in a situation that forced him to step down as chairman.

Safariland, which provides law enforcement and security products and services, recently announced partnership with UNEQUAL Technologies, a provider of head and body armor for soldiers and athletes, to create Xtreme HP Level IIIA police body armor made with UNEQUAL's DEFCON technology.

Review platform users now demand cost-effective simplicity paired with top notch functionality. The users look for a system that runs on any operating system through any browser to give today's review platform users the flexibility they demand. In order to provide its legal clients with an access to all-in-one online document review platform, Digital Strata has selected InControl, by Reveal Data Corporation, as its litigation support platform.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions has announced the migration of its insurance solutions to the LexisNexis Big Data processing platform known as HPCC Systems.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions has announced the migration of its insurance solutions to the LexisNexis Big Data processing platform known as HPCC Systems. A data-intensive supercomputing platform, HPCC Systems has been developed to help LexisNexis Risk Solutions to manage, sort, link, join and analyze billions of records in a matter of hours.

Americas Watchdog is a consumer advocacy group which founded the Mesothelioma Victims Center (MVC). There are two basic needs of victims of this disease. One is an expert practitioner to help fight the disease. The other: a good lawyer.

Fairchild Semiconductors has already been found guilty of infringing on Power Integrations, Inc.'s patents. Now, PI has asked for an injunction against further infringement and extended financial damages based on its belief that Fairchild infringed on more of its patents.

The long standing patent infringement dispute between GSI Technology and Cypress Semiconductor recently received a new turn as GSI chose to make new comments about its pending litigations against Cypress.

SafeAuto, a direct-to-consumer property and casualty insurance carrier based in Columbus, Ohio, has recently selected CSC's legal matter management software, Legal Solutions Suite. With this, SafeAuto can better administer legal expenses and improve communication with outside counsel. This will be helpful to the company as it is now looking to expand operations to new territories.

Snapterms, a startup based in the United States that works with legal issues pertaining to webmasters, just became a big hit without making much financial or marketing effort. Their success revolves around one thing: their idea. Snapterms is a company that hires lawyers to make terms of service and privacy policies for websites with minimal financial impact. With the difficult economy and new regulations that are starting to control the Internet, Snapterms not only had a great idea, but also had excellent timing. It couldn't have been a better time to set up a streamlined process for creating website agreements that would be cost-effective.

eLaw, which provides information management services for legal professionals, has upgraded its case management platform. The new platform features a fully redesigned user interface offering more intuitive navigation and consistency, along with technical enhancements that offer greater speed and reliability.

Just in case you needed another reason to register early for ITEXPO West, October 2-5 2012 in Austin, Texas, here is one more. It was revealed today on Bostlnno that Bain Capital Ventures, has led a $15 million investment in software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider TotalAttorneys. This is a Chicago-based start-up focused on providing small and medium sized law firms the ability to acquire leads and manage billing and documents, i.e., manage the business part of their practices better.

MacroSolve has slapped MovieTickets.com, Inter-Continental Hotels, and Six Continents Hotels with patent infringement lawsuits, related to a patent that's used in MacroSolve's mobile applications, in its latest salvo against companies allegedly infringing its intellectual property.

The marathon that is Continuant's antitrust lawsuit against Avaya took another small step forward last week, when a district court judge denied three Avaya motions seeking a dismissal of Continuant's claims, setting the stage for a possible jury trial. The legal battle between the companies began in 2006 when Continuant accused Avaya of committing anti-competitive business practices by not allowing customers to choose who accesses their Avaya telecom systems when they're in need of repair or maintenance.

Democratic representatives Eliot Engel of New York and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois have introduced a bill in the House called, The Social Networking Online Protection Act, or SNOPA. The bill would subject organizations to a $10,000 fine for requiring members to turn over their social media login information.

Orange Legal Technologies, a leading national provider of electronic discovery litigation, audit and investigation services for law firms and corporations, recently announced in a press release that it has entered a partnership agreement with Barringer Document Services, an Austin-based litigation service provider. As a result of the agreement, both the companies will join their forces to provide electronic discovery services as well as litigation lifecycle support services to Central Texas legal professionals.

Orange Legal Technologies, a leading national provider of electronic discovery litigation, audit and investigation services for law firms and corporations, recently announced in a press release that it has entered a partnership agreement with Barringer Document Services, an Austin-based litigation service provider. As a result of the agreement, both the companies will join their forces to provide electronic discovery services as well as litigation lifecycle support services to Central Texas legal professionals.

Managed service provider (MSP) Link High Technologies is providing legal IT support and services to a new client based in New York City. The 86-employee law firm needed support for its workstations as well as three Windows servers that include Microsoft Exchange and other critical services for communicating with clients and partners.

TPG, an Australian Telecommunications company, has been fined $13,200 for supposedly running misleading advertisements. According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), TPG claimed that consumers who subscribed to its broadband bundle plan would be given 500 minutes of free VoIP calls. The company however failed to mention that the offer had terms and conditions that meant that the 500 free minutes would only be given to those who only made calls that were each over 10 minutes. In addition, TPG did not disclose that each of these calls were to terminals in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide or Perth.