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Corporate Counsel

Protected Speech? DOJ Compliance Expert Tweets Anti-Trump Messages

The contracted compliance counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, Hui Chen, has been posting anti-Trump messages on her Twitter account. Labor and employment attorney says the law is continuing to evolve about this sort of activity.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

CSBS' Margaret Liu On Bank Regulators' Vision 2020 for Fintechs

Margaret Liu, deputy general counsel of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, speaks about her organization's new regulatory plan for nonbanks such as fintechs.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

Your Shadow IT Problem Is Really an IT Collaboration Problem

A lack of dialogue between IT and the legal department is at the core of shadow IT and many other data security challenges.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Tracking Down a Counterfeiter, Bottle by Bottle, and Finding Justice

The maker of 5-Hour Energy Drinks spent $3.5 million tracking down a large counterfeiting ring that was producing fake product in 2011 and 2012. The first defendant in the conspiracy recently received a seven-year prison sentence.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Consulting Firm Morae Legal and E-Discovery Provider Clutch Group to Merge

The merged company Morae Global Corporation is expected to expand both companies' ranges of compliance products and services.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

SEC's FCPA Ace Kara Brockmeyer Joins Debevoise & Plimpton

Kara Brockmeyer, former chief of the SEC Enforcement Division's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit, is joining Debevoise & Plimpton's Washington, D.C., office as a partner and member of the white-collar and regulatory defense and the strategic crisis response and solutions groups, the firm announced Monday.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

When Government's Need for Secrecy Clashes With the Public's Right to Know

A panel sponsored by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security explored those lines in a webcast Tuesday. "Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The Legal Rules" included lawyers and journalists who have been caught up in national security issues.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

New Counsel Rules Meant to Keep Sharks Out of 'Ocean of Data' Could Slow Work, Raise Costs, Firms Say

Recently issued cybersecurity guidelines by the Association of Corporate Counsel are meant to prevent data breaches but some lawyers are saying they will add hours and dollars to projects.
19 minute read

Legaltech News

Why Artificial Intelligence Can't Compete With Humans, and Vice Versa

Limited by its computational nature, AI in legal falls short of being able to interpret and contextualize data the way attorneys can.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Big Law Bends to Challenge Midsize Firms on Flexibility

Amid an expanding arms race in Big Law over who has the most flexible workplace policy—at least on paper—some lawyers at smaller firms may be wondering what all the fuss is about.
29 minute read

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