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The American Lawyer

Akerman Debuts Data Center and Digital Infrastructure Practice With Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Laterals

Akerman added partners James Grice, who led the data center group at BCLP, and Michael McKinley to lead its new industry group from Kansas City.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Will Proposed Bi-Partisan Data Privacy Bill Water Down More Progressive State Laws?

"Previously, one would often hear data privacy advocates urging federal and national legislation. But here we're actually seeing those same advocates worrying that such a regime would preempt and water down the standard across the board."
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Natural Language Processing and Survey Data: Word Clouds, Associations, Sentiment and Bigrams

From a mass of text written in response to a survey question, natural language processing tools can depict common significant words, quantify relationships between words, classify mood, and help us learn from words that often pair together.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

Judicial Analytics Provider Gavelytics to Close Company on June 30

A statement from founder and CEO Rick Merrill pointed to insufficient financing as the reason behind the closure.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Intelligence in the Modern World: The Opportunities and Barriers of Data in Today's Investigations

In this new data landscape, the organizations that most effectively access public data and transform it into practical, actionable information have a competitive advantage.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Balkanization of U.S. Privacy Law Continues With Connecticut's SB6

This article provides a discussion of Connecticut's recently enacted Senate Bill, SB6, which is one of a number of comprehensive state-law data protection regimes passed in recent years, led by the California Consumer Privacy Act. The bill marks a trend toward uniformity in state-law privacy regimes.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Modern ESI: Preserving Deleted, Unsent and Edited Communications

"... the ESI landscape is ever-changing. Litigants and counsel who take the time to update their practices now will be best positioned to use these developments to their advantage,"
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Apple's Impending iMessage 'Recall' Update Might Come With E-Discovery Headaches

Apple's iOS 16 update will allow iPhone users to "recall" or edit recently sent messages, potentially shrinking data recoverable in e-discovery. Still, it remains to be seen whether these messages might actually be "gone" without leaving metadata stored on Apple's servers.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Proposed CPRA Rules Show 'Dark Patterns' a Growing Focus for State Privacy Laws

The latest California draft provisions offer the most stringent guidance on "dark patterns" yet, signaling a growing need for legal departments to work with website operators and designers to avoid regulatory scrutiny.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Many Companies Lack Support, Resources and Budget to Tackle Proliferating Privacy Requirements

The 2022 State of Data Visibility Report from privacy solutions company Transcend shows that many companies don't yet have a unified data map to deal with growing data subject access requests, and management might be the one standing in the way.
4 minute read

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