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Examining the Differences Between Data Privacy and Data Security

As businesses develop data protection frameworks to ensure compliance, it is important for companies to design a data protection program that contemplates data privacy and data security individually, to achieve the most comprehensive data protection program.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

Uniform Personal Data Protection Act Offers an Alternative Approach to Consumer Data Protection

The animating concept behind the Uniform Law Commission's latest model law is to balance consumer concerns about data privacy while reducing business compliance costs and commercial disruptions.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Enron's Porcelain Anniversary: Governance and Compliance Lessons 20 Years Later

"The lessons of Enron continue to be relevant today given the numerous corporate scandals over the last two decades that echoed many of Enron's governance and compliance failures," say Paige Holden Montgomery and David A. Silva, members of Sidley's white-collar: government litigation and investigations practice.
8 minute read

Law.com

Artist's Talent Agencies Act Claim In CA Doesn't Bar Personal Managers' NY Lawsuit

What happens if a personal manager files a lawsuit in a court outside of California against a talent client who has raised a California Talent Agencies Act claim in California?
5 minute read

The Recorder

How Corporate Investigations and Pro Bono Work Catapulted Covington's Presence in Los Angeles

"Because we are in Los Angeles, we've been able to handle matters of national importance in a way that is unique for a smaller office of a national firm," office managing partner Dan Shallman said.
4 minute read

Law.com

Compliance Hot Spots: Crypto Executive Order 'Both a Landmark and a Question Mark' + SEC Cyber Rules Up Pressure on In-House Counsel + Brownstein Reps RNC in Subpoena Dispute

President Joe Biden's executive order on cryptocurrency directs a range of federal agencies to study and assess a litany of issues related to digital assets, including cybersecurity, money laundering and climate impact.
10 minute read

The Recorder

Requirements and Guidance for SEC's New Universal Proxy Rule

The new rules will dramatically change the methods by which proxy contests at public companies have been conducted for decades and may make public companies more vulnerable to shareholder activism campaigns, according to Sidley Austin's Derek Zaba.
6 minute read

International Edition

US Gunmakers Blame 'Criminal Actors' for Arming Cartels in Second Joint Motion to Dismiss Mexican Suit

Jones Day partner Andrew Lelling asserts that gunmakers lawfully manufacture and distribute products in the U.S. and are not liable for the misuse of their products by criminals in Mexico.
5 minute read

International Edition

US Gunmakers Blame 'Criminal Actors' for Arming Cartels in Second Joint Motion to Dismiss Mexican Suit

Jones Day partner Andrew Lelling asserts that gunmakers lawfully manufacture and distribute products in the U.S. and are not liable for the misuse of their products by criminals in Mexico.
5 minute read

International Edition

Rescheduled Bar Exam to be Held Only in Person and on Paper After Online Test Was Leaked

Many candidates are not happy about the rescheduled exams. The new dates fall during Ramadan, making it difficult for those who observe the Islamic holiday. Candidates are also upset that they will be required to travel to Toronto to take the tests in person.
4 minute read

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