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LinkedIn Hit With Wave of Health Data Claims Under California Privacy Law

All three cases, filed by Bursor & Fisher in the California Northern District Court and the California Superior Court in Santa Clara County, alleged wiretapping claims under the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
4 minute read

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

National Law Journal

'Truth Still Prevails': In Age of Disinformation, Defamation Attorneys Score Landmark Jury Verdict

"We don't just run into court and file these lawsuits. I wrote to the defendants six years ago and asked them to correct the record and apologize. I think, if they had corrected the record and set it straight six years ago, it's hard for me to imagine that we would have brought this lawsuit at all," defamation attorney Megan Meier said about a false report published about her client.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

How Kramer Levin's Patent Trial Team Approaches Teaching Tech to Juries

Paul Andre, Liza Kobialka and James Hannah of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, who have won three trials in the past 10 months, say trying to oversimplify technology for juries is a mistake.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

OpenAI Hires First Compliance Chief, Snagging Uber's Scott Schools

"Contributing to the responsible development of technologies that positively impact society is a tremendous opportunity," said Schools, who held a string of high-level Justice Department posts before joining Uber in 2018.
2 minute read

The Recorder

'Blatant and Audacious': Sideman & Bancroft Wins Injunction for Biotech Startup Trilobio in Trade Secrets Theft Case

The San Francisco-based company uses AI-fueled technology to create robots that perform biological research and development tasks and conduct genetic testing.
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

'Battle-Tested' at Last Employer, Alex Tolston Takes Tegna's Legal Reins at Challenging Time

Alex Tolston is the third person to sit in Tegna's chief legal officer seat since regulators' inaction forced the company in May 2023 to scrap its $8.6 billion sale to media mogul Soo Kim.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Who Got the Work: Morgan Lewis Set to Defend X Corp., Elon Musk in ERISA Suit

Plaintiffs, former Twitter executives, say in their complaint that Elon Musk's acquisition of the microblogging app constituted a "material adverse change" in employment terms and meant they were entitled to severance packages upon resignation.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Abandoned Password Protected Phones and the Right to Privacy

This article discusses the Fourth Amendment and our right to privacy under the law in regards to password protected devices. "Without a search warrant, the defendant would, of course, assert his right to privacy because he would argue by his act of password protecting the contents of the phone, he evidenced an intent to exercise his right to privacy."
9 minute read

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