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Corporate Counsel

What You Need to Know to Get Started with Privacy Shield Certification

If your company maintains operations in the European Union or is U.S. based but obtaining personal data from European citizens, you will need to strongly consider obtaining certification under the new Privacy Shield framework. Certification began in August 2016, and will make compliance with EU privacy laws when transferring data to the U.S. possible for the immediate future.
16 minute read

Legaltech News

What Should Be in Your Ransomware Response Plan?

Ransomware attacks in 2017 are akin to data security breaches a decade ago: a known risk, drawing class-action litigation, for which a plan is needed.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

NY's Cybersecurity Rules for Banks, Insurers, Financial Services

The New York Department of Financial Services' new ­cybersecurity rules applicable to banks, insurance ­companies and other financial services companies, 23 NYCRR 500, went into effect on March 1.
15 minute read

New York Law Journal

Cybersecurity

By | March 06, 2017
In this Special Report: "Privacy and Cybersecurity: A Rendezvous in Data Breaches," "Insurance Challenges Ahead as Cyber Perils Shift," "A Meeting of the Minds: Emerging Regulation and the Convergence of Cyber and Fraud," "Do Mitigation Efforts Give Plaintiffs a Right to Sue in Data Breach Cases?," "Regulatory Oversight of Third-Party Arrangements: Who's Writing the Contract?" and "Cybersecurity for Law Firms: Business Imperatives Update 2017."
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Cybersecurity and Due Care for Law Firms

Chris Moschovitis writes: We have seen it time and again: Owners, and law partners, although "sensitized" to cybersecurity issues, frequently abdicate their due care responsibilities, preferring instead to depend on their technology departments to "make the problem go away." This is a clear violation of due care, and a wide-open door to lawsuits.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Yahoo, Verizon Debacle Shines Light on M&A Cybersecurity

These days, cybersecurity is 'a meaningful issue in almost every modern day M&A transaction,' said King & Spalding's Robert Leclerc.
12 minute read

Legaltech News

3 Areas Where IoT is Already Impacting Lawyers

The increasingly wireless world spells increasingly difficult challenges for lawyers in law firms and organizations of all sizes.
22 minute read

Corporate Counsel

5 Key Cyber Trends Dominating the Early 2017 Discourse

These talked-about trends span not only the progress made, but also the cybersecurity challenges that still lie ahead.
15 minute read

Litigation Daily

No, a Good Lawyer Could Not Make a 'Great Case' Out of Trump's Wiretap Claim

Unless Obama used a slush fund to hire a rogue ex-spy to sneak into Trump Tower via the elevator shaft, Donald Trump probably shouldn't be making a fuss about his phones being tapped.
13 minute read

New York Law Journal

Privacy and Cybersecurity: A Rendezvous in Data Breaches

Anahita Thoms and Peter Jaffe of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer look at both cybersecurity requirements and breach notification rules, comparing U.S. laws with the key European Union laws. They focus on the requirements for data controllers because almost every company is a data controller, even if only because it handles its own employees' data.
17 minute read

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