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Corporate Counsel

Keeping Trade Secrets Out of Patents

Trade secret and patent laws both provide intellectual property protection but have conflicting requirements that can impose challenges for a company seeking to maximize its protection under each right.
11 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Locking It Down and Keeping Watch: A 2017 Corporate and Law Firm Protection Guide

Anyone aware of current business news cannot avoid the flood of high visibility hacking and IP intrusion/theft. The issues have grown so ubiquitous that it isn't shocking to hear U.S. companies and government agencies suffered a record 1,093 data breaches in 2016 alone, a 40-percent increase from 2015.
16 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The IP Cons of Fan Conventions

There are Cons for comics, movie and television franchises, toys and much more. However, there is a less seemly side of Cons—IP infringement.
10 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Partnering With Procurement Can Bring New Ideas and Added Value to the Legal Team

Two trends have emerged to motivate both legal and procurement to establish an effective partnership.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Conducting Effective Internal Investigations: A Checklist for In-House Counsel

Every general counsel over the course of his or her career will face the need to conduct an internal investigation into events at the company. Many of these may be routine in nature, such as matters dealing with individual employees or human resources issues.
16 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Court: No Waymo to Uber's Assertion of Privilege on Pre-Litigation Investigation

You are defending a recently acquired company in a litigation. As part of pre-acquisition diligence, and prior to the litigation commencing, executives from your client and the company that acquired it shared analysis of facts relevant to the litigation. Now that the acquisition is complete, to what extent can these communications be protected by the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine or the common-interest exception to waiver?
10 minute read

Corporate Counsel

5 Things to Ask Before Hiring a Robo-Lawyer: Part 4

Whether good or bad, the law is used by some to obtain or retain advantages over others, like education, money and politics. Over short and medium time frames, access to AI—and access to better AI—will likely skew toward those who can afford to supplement quality human legal advice for their separate advantage.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

5 Things to Ask Before Hiring a Robo-Lawyer: Part 3

There is a significant difference between providing an accurate or even a thorough legal answer, and providing a legal opinion that is strategic, that is likely to be trusted and followed by the client, that does not create additional liability for the client and that zealously protects the client's legal rights.
10 minute read

Corporate Counsel

5 Things to Ask Before Hiring a Robo-Lawyer: Part 2

To drive somewhere, all you have to tell an automated car is your destination, the rest is technology, albeit complex amazing and sometimes patentable technology. Given any two physical coordinates, the same technical solution should be applicable to any human passenger. However, when legal issues are involved, a human client may not be able to articulate a preferred outcome and also usually needs advice on what results are even possible. A lawyer thus needs a lot more information, and an AI needs a lot more complex, amazing and sometimes patentable technology.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

5 Things to Ask Before Hiring a Robo-Lawyer: Part 1

If we are increasingly willing to consign our fortunes to the advice of artificially intelligent financial advisers and place our mortal survival in the hands of robo surgeons and driverless cars, when should we entrust our legal rights to robo-lawyers?
9 minute read

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