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New York Law Journal

As New York City Reopens, Businesses Face a New Challenge: Biometric Data Restrictions

As of July 9, a new addition to the City's administrative code will impose disclosure requirements for certain companies that collect, share, store, convert or retain consumer biometric information and separately prohibit the sale or sharing of such information.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Law Firm or ALSP? Legal Departments May Let Comfort and Familiarity Decide

A recent webinar emphasized the premium that legal departments place on relationships—not metrics—when trying to decide between a law firm and an ALSP.
3 minute read

Law.com

It's Year Two of Pandemic Law Firm Summer Associate Programs. Here's How Things Are Shaping Up

Yih-Hsien Shen, associate director of J.D. advising at Harvard Law School, discusses how law firms are approaching this year's summer associate programs and what lessons they learned from last year's virtual programs.
2 minute read

Legaltech News

SCOTUS 'Van Buren' Ruling Makes Policing Employee Conduct More Complicated

Employers may have lost one legal mechanism for enforcing employee computer usage, but lawyers note Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision doesn't erase all remedies.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Lawsuits Over Google's Casino-Style Apps Transferred to California's Northern District

The lawsuits, which allege that the apps, available on the Google Play Store, constitute unlawful gambling because they operate like slots, poker, blackjack and bingo, have been sent to U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, who is overseeing similar lawsuits against Apple.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

'Staff Are People Too': All Stroock Employees Can Work Hybrid, Including Secretaries

The uniform policy for attorneys and staff stands in contrast to several other firms, such as Skadden.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

TV Reporter Wants Facebook, Reddit Liable for Secretly Taken Photo's Misuse

Philadelphia reporter Karen Hepp sued Facebook, Imgur, Reddit and holding company WGCZ for allowing a photograph of her—surreptitiously taken while shopping at a convenience store—to be used on a dating website and in erectile dysfunction advertisements without her consent.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Despite Lack of Direct Regulation, AI Is No Longer the 'Wild West'

A Morrison & Foerster webinar examined the pressure that privacy laws such as the GDPR are already putting on companies to be transparent in their use of AI.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Counsel Are Returning to Offices Soon. It's Only One Factor in Their Career Decisions

While corporate legal departments may be more rigid in returning to offices sooner than law firms, it's unlikely this alone will motivate in-house lawyers to move to Big Law life.
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Evolving Collective Rights Management for Author, Publisher and User Needs

Copyright is meaningless in the absence of a means to exercise those rights that is also reasonably useful to users. By enabling efficient licensing and guaranteeing remuneration for creative works, CMOs ensure that licenses meet both rightsholders' and users' needs and expectations.
6 minute read

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