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National Law Journal

Twitter Responds to Clarence Thomas Groping Allegations

As an allegation surfaced accusing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of groping a young lawyer in 1999, social media responded by connecting the dots.
9 minute read

Legaltech News

OutsideIQ's DDIQ Leverages Artificial Intelligence for Automated Anti-Bribery Compliance

The tool searches unstructured and structured bribery databases and the open and dark web to help organizations adhere to the ISO 37001 standard.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Airbnb Defends Arbitration in Push to Dismiss Discrimination Suit

Lawyers for Airbnb Inc. defended the home-sharing platform's terms of service Wednesday in Washington federal district court, arguing that a user who brought a discrimination case against the company should be forced into arbitration to resolve the dispute.
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Facebook Takes Shot at IRS in Transfer-Pricing Feud

Facebook Inc. is challenging the federal government's claim that it underpaid taxes, possibly by more than a $3 billion, due to the way it valued assets transferred to its Irish subsidiary in 2010.
15 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Will Yahoo Face Lawsuits Over Email Surveillance?

Yahoo will undoubtedly face backlash over the revelation that it scanned all its users' incoming emails. But experts say that Yahoo has strong defenses against potential lawsuits relating to the spying.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Social Media Investigations: Digging Deep, or Just Scratching the Surface?

Daniel M. Braude and Daniel E. Lust of Wilson Elser write: Defendants can and should use photos, tweets, vines, snaps, emojis and whatever else can be pulled from a plaintiff's social media trail to potentially discredit the plaintiff and demonstrate that alleged damages are not based in reality. But are defense attorneys today properly digging through social media postings, or are they just scratching the surface?
16 minute read

National Law Journal

VOIR DIRE: Curtain Call

Legal action may be brewing over an addition to the Tate Modern that turns museum goers into potential peeping Toms. Plus: an unusual missing person case in this week's column.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Student's Tweets About Violence Not a Crime, Court Rules

A Sarasota County high school student's statement on Twitter that he "can't WAIT to shoot up my school" does not constitute a criminal threat under Florida law, an appeals court ruled.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Federal Judge, Facebook and Kirkland Make Amends in Court

Days after a federal judge blasted Kirkland & Ellis and its client Facebook Inc. for sending a junior associate alone to court, a team of five lawyers representing the social networking giant, including deputy general counsel Paul Grewal, appeared before the judge Tuesday, offering an apology that a partner didn't appear.
10 minute read

The Recorder

Digital Assets Bill Gets Governor's Signature

The legislation sets out what happens to social media and other accounts when the owner dies.
6 minute read

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