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Cyber Spies: In-House Legal Fights Back Against Cyberespionage

An exploration of the modern cyberespionage threat and how in-house legal departments are fighting back.
27 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Improving Law: Lawyers, Technologists and Executives on an Evolving Industry

As with any sort of technology, legal technology addresses a variety of challenges and is created, applied and promoted by a variety of individuals. The ideas, innovations and challenges they face are the focus of many conversations held at “Legalweek: The Experience,” an event that provides a stage for the people behind the machines to alert the broader legal world of the change already at their doorsteps.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Dodging a Bullet: Walmart Escapes Sanctions Despite Failing to Preserve Exiting Employee Data

It was the revised FRCP Rule 37(e) that came to Walmart's rescue, resulting not in case-ending sanctions, but instead, a relatively mild admonishment
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Storm on the Horizon: 4 Things to Know in Prepping for General Data Protection Regulation

At Legalweek's “Finding a New Safe Harbor: Using Technology and 1LR to Comply With Cross-Border Data Privacy Rules” and “Update on Effects of Brexit on Privacy and Data Protection Considerations” sessions, panelists sought to impart a sense of urgency, focusing not only on the consequences and reach of the regulation, but the unique and complex challenges it will create for legal professionals.
11 minute read

Legaltech News

Data Privacy Tops List of Health Care GC Worries

Lawyers working in the highly regulated health care industry are finding their work is becoming more complicated by an explosion of information, devices and new technology that puts sensitive patient data at risk, a new survey finds.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

The 'Soft Underbelly' of Cybersecurity Meets Legal Ethics

By following certain best practices and structures, lawyers and law firms can meet ethical standards for protecting client data.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

Data Privacy Tops List of Health Care GC Worries

Seventy-five percent of respondents cited data security as the issue they were most worried about in Consero Group's 2017 Survey of Healthcare General Counsel. An explosion of high-tech “has outpaced everyone's comfort level,” said Norton Healthcare general counsel Robert Azar.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

Appeals Court Blocks Target Data Breach Settlement

The ruling sets up a debate on whether and how to compensate individuals for the theft of personal information when it cannot be tied to financial injury.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

FBI Official: Feds Can't Compete With Top Tech Companies for Cybersecurity Analysts

Companies such as Google and Microsoft employ many of the same cyber-savvy people that law enforcement agencies also would like to have working for them.
9 minute read

Legal Week

Legal Week Innovation Awards launch with call for entries from cutting-edge candidates

Ceremony in London will celebrate work of lawyers and non-fee-earning staff promoting innovation
2 minute read

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