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Corporate Counsel

Old Laws, New Tricks: Lawyers Using Patchwork of Creative Legal Theories to Target New Tech

"Most of the litigation to date is novel, and a win in one court doesn't necessarily scare away the plaintiff's counsel from trying over and over again, or from flooding every website that their clients come in contact with and sending a demand letter," said Bethany Lukitsch, a BakerHostetler partner.
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Corporate Counsel

Microsoft's Banner Year Pushed Brad Smith's Pay Sharply Higher

The company racked up lots of wins in the fiscal year that ended June 30, including completing its largest acquisition ever, the $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard—a deal Smith pushed across the finish line in October.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

SEC Fines 4 Companies $7M for Downplaying Breaches Tied to Massive SolarWinds Hack

The agency said Unisys, Avaya Holdings, Check Point Software Technologies and Mimecast provided misleading disclosures about the incidents, leaving investors in the dark about their "true scope."
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Cisco CLO's Comp Surges in Year Marked by Huge Acquisition, Declining Sales

Deborah "Dev" Stahlkopf had been general counsel of Microsoft before she joined the computer networking giant in 2021, induced in part by a $5.5 million, cash-and-stock signing bonus.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Joseph Saveri Law Firm, Co-Counsel File 9th Circuit Appeal in Lawsuit Targeting GitHub's Use of Code to Train AI Models

The appeal questions whether liability under §1202(b) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is limited to the "removal or alteration of Copyright Management Information from an identical copy of a work."
4 minute read

The Recorder

Who Got the Work: Quinn Emanuel Enters Appearance for Snowflake Amid Flurry of Data Breach Class Actions

The complaint, filed on Aug. 5, is one of a national wave of class actions targeting Snowflake after a series of high-profile cyberattacks on the company compromised consumer data at over 165 businesses that implement its data storage services, including Ticketmaster and AT&T.
3 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Ouraring Claims Competitor RingConn Infringed on Wearable Tech Patents

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide. Sign up today and be first to know about new suits in your region, practice area or client sector.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Legal Leaders See AI's Multitude of Uses as Both Blessing and Curse

"The best way to understand the practical benefit of AI is to use it for your specific work," said Ryan Groff, a lecturer at New England Law | Boston.
3 minute read

Law.com

State Appellate Court Finds Virtual Glasses Try-On Does Not Violate Biometric Privacy Act

"In light of the broad current use of telehealth, the setting itself might be almost anywhere but the definition is limited by the requirement that the individual is awaiting or receiving medical care and the information is being collected as part of an effort to maintain or restore or promote that person's well-being," Justice Mary L. Mikva wrote.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Snowflake Faces Avalanche of Federal Lawsuits Over Massive Data Breach

James Pizzirusso, a co-founder and partner at Hausfeld who is representing plaintiffs in cases filed against Snowflake, said that the company "should have taken extra precautions here given the sensitivity of the data that it hosted" and "the massive number of breaches that have been occurring in the last decade."
3 minute read

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