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The American Lawyer

Norton Rose Fulbright Rebuilds Cybersecurity Group With New Practice Leaders

Five months after watching the leaders of its cybersecurity and data protection team decamp for Cooley, Norton Rose Fulbright has raided two other Am Law 100 firms to restock its privacy practice.
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The Recorder

Norton Rose Fulbright Rebuilds Cybersecurity Group With New Practice Leaders

San Francisco-based partner Jeewon Serrato, most recently counsel and head of the global privacy and data management practice at Sherman & Sterling, is among the three lawyers brought on to bolster the practice.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Contract and Tort Law (Not Property) Are Required for Blockchain Property Transactions

It is more useful to regulate and adjudicate blockchain protocol property transactions using laws and precedent associated with agreements and acts, rather than using the law of physical things.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Paul Weiss Finds 76ers' Colangelo Was 'Reckless' in Twitter Scandal

Bryan Colangelo's wife released "sensitive, nonpublic, club-related information" from a series of anonymous accounts, leading the former president of basketball operations to resign.
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The Recorder

Class Actions Targeting Facebook, Cambridge Analytica Sent to Northern District of Calif.

A federal judicial panel has ordered that 30 class actions brought against Facebook and Cambridge Analytica be coordinated into multidistrict litigation…
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Daily Report Online

11th Circuit Erases FTC Ruling That Ordered 'Sweeping' Data Security Program

"The cease and desist order contains no prohibitions. It does not instruct LabMD to stop committing a specific act or practice. Rather, it commands LabMD to overhaul and replace its data-security program to meet an indeterminable standard of reasonableness. This command is unenforceable,” the appeals court said.
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The American Lawyer

Polsinelli Adds 4-Lawyer Data Breach Team as Hiring Spree Rolls On

Polsinelli has added nearly 30 partners this year. Two of the latest lateral hires will lead the firm's privacy and cybersecurity practice.
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New York Law Journal

Cybersecurity

In this Special Report: "The Biometric Standards: How New York Measures Up in the Face of Biometric Use Regulations," "The Con of Social Engineering: Law Firms are Easy Prey," "The Future of Cyber Threats: When Attacks Cause Physical Harm," "When the FBI Can Help Companies Deal With a Cyber Event" and "Challenges of a National 72-Hour Data Breach Notification Standard."
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Legaltech News

Q&A: Penn State Prof. Anne Toomey McKenna on Tackling the Evolving Nature of Cyber Law

The newly appointed Penn State professor sees a lot of room for questions in the evolving cyber law landscape, but so far there are few answers.
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Legaltech News

Mandatory Arbitration Agreements May Not be Immutable in Cryptocurrency Litigation

Public access prevailed in the Eleventh Circuit's recent Leidel v. Coinbase decision, which provides insight for how aggrieved investors may be able to draft pleadings against third-party money service providers.
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