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December 31, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

Welcome to 2016! With New Year's merriment and good cheer in the rearview mirror, it is time to refresh your IP strategy. Regardless of when your fiscal year ends, now is an ideal time to take a fresh look. Since early January is typically less busy as everyone gets back...

By Doug Luftman

12 minute read

November 30, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

High patent damages demands and awards for complex products covered by thousands of patents are common in the United States and rare elsewhere in the world. The prospect of high damages awards is incentivizing unwarranted and abusive patent litigation in some industry sectors. Lack of clarity about appropriate evidence of...

By Catherine Lacavera

2 minute read

November 30, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

It's a clich that we journalists love it when bad things happen. Sure, natural disasters, terrorism strikes (I write this a few days after the Paris attacks) and scandal give us something to write about. But we don't go looking for this stuff. Okay, maybe we do relish a juicy...

By Anthony Paonita

3 minute read

September 30, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

Cybersecurity issues are a hot topic in legal and compliance circles, but, even as companies turn their attention to addressing these genuine concerns, other problems crop up like a game of whack-a-mole. The labor and employment legal landscape changes almost as fast as the privacy and data security space, so...

By Rich Steeves

11 minute read

July 31, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

I have a terrific work commute. Most people can't say that, especially in the New York metro area, where a lot of my colleagues battle with suburban train delays and subway reroutings. But I get to take a ferry, which gives me nice views of the harbor, as well as...

By Anthony Paonita

6 minute read

May 27, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

Corporate officers and directors can express their honestly held opinions without liability under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933even if those opinions later turn out to be falseso long as they believed those opinions to be true at the time they said it.

By Priya Cherian Huskins

4 minute read

March 31, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

Some folksespecially those living in the states governed by the U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuitmight believe that it's now okay to relax corporate insider trading policies. But don't do it.

By Priya Cherian Huskins

4 minute read

February 03, 2015 | Legaltech News

The use of data analysis that can pinpoint changes in employee behavior, for example, could expose a compromised account before hackers are able to exploit it.

By Chris DiMarco, Executive Editor, InsideCounsel

3 minute read

February 03, 2015 | Legaltech News

Legaltech 2015 opening keynote addresses 'privacy by design,' public policy.

By Chris DiMarco, Executive Editor, InsideCounsel

4 minute read

December 21, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

Building relationships takes effort and time outside of the actual client work. Clients want to know their law firms are listening to them and learning about the goals of the business. Doing so allows a firm to provide additional value, anticipate legal needs and show that they listen.

By Silvia Coulter

8 minute read