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Corporate Counsel

Intel Publishes a Proposed Bill on Data Privacy

David Hoffman, Intel's associate general counsel and global privacy officer of the Santa Clara-based company said, “our model bill is designed to spur discussion that helps inspire meaningful privacy legislation.”
4 minute read

The Recorder

Seeing More Trade-Secret Theft Prosecutions Involving China? Here's Why

Arent Fox's Dana Finberg called recent developments 'a sign that the DOJ is going to take matters into its own hands more, rather than try to get cooperation from the Chinese authorities.'
6 minute read

International Edition

U.S. Trade-Secret Theft Prosecutions Target China and Are on the Rise

'It's the first time you have an initiative within the DOJ focused on a particular country.'
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Why Trade-Secret Theft Prosecutions vs. China Are Trending: Lawyers Explain

As U.S. and China trade tensions escalate, the U.S. Department of Justice has been prosecuting trade misappropriation cases more often. “I imagine that some of these cases have been worked on for years now and there was a policy judgment in the Trump administration that we would start prosecuting these cases,” said a trade lawyer and former DOJ prosecutor.
6 minute read

The Recorder

Next Generation Women Leaders in Tech Law 2018: Megha Aggarwal, Synaptics Inc.

Aggarwal, the assistant GC of Synaptics, helped the company navigate the acquisition of one company and the simultaneous division of another in deals valued at about approximately $400 million, which created the company's new IoT division.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Warner Music Group Promotes Two to Deputy GC Role

WMG promoted Trent Tappe and Maryrose Maness to the role of senior vice president and deputy general counsel. Tappe has been with the company for 14 years, and Maness is in her 10th year at WMG. Both have been named to Billboard's Top Music Lawyers list in 2017 and 2018.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

GDPR Fine Against Portuguese Hospital Puts Health Care Providers on Alert

A 400,000-euros fine against Portuguese hospital Central Hospital of Barreiro Montijo for allowing too many employees to have access to patient data is the among the first GDPR enforcement actions in the EU.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

New Data Analysis Service Could Help In-House Clients See the Future

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner says its Clear/Cut leverages predictive coding and machine learning to comb through massive amounts of data and pluck out key information for legal analysts, who use the data to recommend whether clients should settle or forge ahead with litigation.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Google Revamps Harassment Policies Following Employee Protests

Google joins an ever-growing list of companies that have been forced to reckon with accusations of workplace power imbalances between male and female colleagues.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Select Interior Concepts Names Its First General Counsel

A former in-house counsel at Equifax has been named the general counsel and corporate secretary of Select Interior Concepts.
2 minute read

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