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New York Law Journal

The Risks of Collaboration

Modernizing compliance monitoring, records retention and information governance to account for business communications going across digital collaboration platforms is now critical to reduce risk in today's workplace.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ad-Tech Startup Backed by TV Networks Brings Aboard GC

Andy Dale says he's fascinated by the challenge of his new role. "The TV side is so innovative and full of interesting, complex privacy issues."
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

National Religious Broadcasters' Newly Hired GC to Fight 'Big Tech Woke Cancel Culture'

"There are few as accomplished as Michael Farris in advocating for First Amendment freedoms, and we are thrilled to welcome him to our team," said Troy Miller, the organization's CEO.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Fifth Circuit Reexamines Texas Bid-Rigging Law Used to Punish Journalist

Priscilla Villarreal was arrested on a warrant that cited a Texas Penal Code that penalizes a person for obtaining non-public information from a public servant "with intent to obtain a benefit or with intent to harm or defraud another."
4 minute read

Legaltech News

FCC's Proposed Updated Breach Notification Requirements Could Spur 'Logistical Nightmare'

Among the suggested changes, the FCC is proposing eliminating the current seven-business-day mandatory waiting period for notifying customers of a breach, leaving companies with more to do, in less time.
4 minute read

The Recorder

'Don't Want to Waste My Time': Judge Punts on Social Media Addiction Defense Decision

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said she wanted to wait for the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in "Gonzalez v. Google" before deciding whether the Communications Decency Act's §230 immunizes social media apps from addiction claims.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Finds for Bykofsky in Defamation Suit Against Inquirer, Columnist

The suit stems from comments Saffron, a Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture columnist, made about a 2011 column Bykofsky wrote, which she described as "the infamous column about his taste for child prostitutes in Thailand."
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

New Suit Asserts Patent Claims Against LiveChat, Inc.

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

Texas Lawyer

UT-Austin Must Pay: Newspaper Awarded Attorney Fees in Open-Records Fight

Eighth District Court of Appeals Justice Gina M. Palafox authored the opinion and concluded that a statute that had never been interpreted by a court is not among the listed exceptions to the state law's mandatory fee provision.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Closely Watched Litigation: Critics Want Court to End Subsidy for Telecom Users

"It's not enough to say, 'It's too much.' You have to say it's not authorized by Congress," FCC associate general counsel Jacob M. Lewis argued.
4 minute read

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