Kathryn Goldstein Legge

Kathryn Goldstein Legge

February 24, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Why Higher Ed Is Being Hit With Defamation Suits

"I'm rubber and you're glue" might have been a valid defense in kindergarten, but higher educational institutions across the country are quickly finding that claims of defamation are no longer quite so easily dismissed.

By Kathryn Goldstein Legge and Christine E. Weller

8 minute read

February 23, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Why Higher Ed Is Being Hit With Defamation Suits

"I'm rubber and you're glue" might have been a valid defense in kindergarten, but higher educational institutions across the country are quickly finding that claims of defamation are no longer quite so easily dismissed.

By Kathryn Goldstein Legge and Christine E. Weller

8 minute read

August 07, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Startup Savvy: Knowing When to Ask for an NDA

The entrepreneurs we counsel frequently ask what they can do to protect their ideas from being poached. They want to know whether they have contractual rights to their ideas and whether there is any paperwork they should use to protect their rights, particularly in conversations with investors. A nondisclosure agreement, or NDA, while necessary in some instances, may not be effective or appropriate in the early or even middle stages of a business relationship between an entrepreneur and an investor.

By Dina Leytes, Kathryn Goldstein Legge and Ashley Kenney Shea

4 minute read

June 30, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Data Privacy Considerations for Reorganizing Businesses

Data privacy is an undeniably hot-button issue. Be it unfettered government access, data breaches by mass-market retailers or sneaky advertising practices on social media, the public is concerned about what is happening to their private information and rightly so. With this increasing scrutiny, it is vital that a business takes great care to comply with the practices described in its own privacy policy. Even a business that is undergoing a merger, acquisition or dissolution must consider the privacy representations it has made to its users and ensure its continued compliance.

By Dina Leytes, Kathryn Goldstein Legge and Ashley Kenney Shea

3 minute read