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Corporate Counsel

Privacy and Data Security Obligations: Law Firms Have an Outside Counsel Guidelines Problem 

Often OCGs contain privacy and data security obligations that do not match the reality of practicing law and servicing a client. These obligations often come from an IT department or compliance professional who goes to extreme lengths to ensure they cannot be blamed if there is a data incident. This attitude and approach have created an OCG problem for law firms.
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Corporate Counsel

Effective Data Management Is Key to Building Competitive Advantage

Legal departments and companies in every geography and industry sector aren't just working to become more data literate, but also derive more value from the information that they're collecting and find more potential applications for it.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

New California Probe Sets Stage for Showdown Over Connected-Car Data

Cars "represent a private area in which people can enjoy a form of autonomy of decision, without encountering any external interferences. Today, as connected vehicles move into the mainstream, such a vision no longer corresponds to the reality," the European Data Protection Board said in a report.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'Location, Location, Location' Is Latest Challenge in Data Privacy Compliance

"For the first time in U.S. states, companies will need to collect meaningful permissions from their customers to gather and apply data relating to the customers' position on the globe," Womble Bond Dickinson said in a client advisory.
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Delaware Business Court Insider

Armstrong Teasdale Defends Company in IP Dispute Over System for Retrieving Info and Generating Content Suggestions

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Baker & Hostetler Defends Health Care System Facing Privacy Claims Over Alleged Data Collection

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Legaltech News

4 Recent BIPA Developments Businesses Need to Keep an Eye On

The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has led to new, and more significant consequences for business over the past few months.
1 minute read

Legaltech News

Reorganizing the Legal Department to Include a Data Division

In today's digital and virtual business environment, where new technologies like SaaS, digital currencies, and AI are rapidly changing the compliance, security, and privacy landscape, only the most agile legal departments will survive.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Weitz & Luxenberg Files Proposed Class Action Against Macmillan Over 9-Day Data Breach

The proposed class action alleges that the highly sensitive personal information of over 19,000 current and former employees of the company was compromised.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Effective Data Management Is Key to Building Competitive Advantage

In a time of exponential change, accelerating technological advancement, and growing digitization, data is fast becoming the lifeblood of modern organizations…
6 minute read

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