Q&A

Women of Legal Tech: Getting Deals Done While Overcoming Unconscious Bias

Monica Bay| April 26, 2018

Doxly CEO and founder Haley Altman discusses her definition for "managing up," why she picked law over medicine, and more.

News

Special Master Finds Legal Fee Bid Excessive in Anthem Data Breach Case

Scott Flaherty | April 25, 2018

A special master, appointed by Judge Lucy Koh, was highly critical of a legal fee request in a $115 million settlement of data breach litigation against Anthem.

News

Most Companies Report Working Hard on GDPR, But Health Care and Finance Lag

Sue Reisinger | April 25, 2018

New data from Netsparker indicates that when it comes to preparing for the new EU privacy law, not all industries are created equal.

News

Trying to Tame Outside Counsel Spend? Look Inside the Data

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 25, 2018

The new Exigent product thinks that predictive technology can give in-house teams the tools they need to control outside counsel spend.

News

For Better Outside Counsel Relationships, Tell Firms How They're Being Measured

Caroline Spiezio | April 25, 2018

"It feels like the law firms are going to do what we ask them to do, but oftentimes, we’re not telling them what we want," said one in-house ops leader at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's annual institute.

News

Testing the Tech Terrain: iManage Partners With Templafy

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 25, 2018

The new arrangement between the templating software group and document management platform may indicate that trusted relationships are still the way to legal buyers' hearts.

News

Zero to Hero: Legal Ops Leaders Discuss How to Start an Operations Program From Scratch

Caroline Spiezio | April 24, 2018

At CLOC's annual conference in Las Vegas this week, Mike Haven of The Gap and Steve Harmon of Cisco Systems gave some pointers on how to build an ops function where there wasn't one before. "It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon," Haven said.

News

In-House Leaders at Starbucks, Northwestern Mutual Share Diversity & Inclusion Tips

Caroline Spiezio | April 24, 2018

Lisa Kremer Brown of Starbucks, Lisa Brzycki of Northwestern Mutual and other legal department decision-makers shared their best diversity strategies at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's annual institute.

News

SEC Wallops Yahoo With $35M Penalty Over Breach Disclosures—or Lack Thereof

Ross Todd | April 24, 2018

The company, now known as Altaba, has settled SEC claims that it misled investors about a 2014 data breach which affected more than 500 million user accounts.

Event

Maybe AI Can’t Do Everything, but Corporate Legal’s Still Trying to Adopt

Zach Warren | April 24, 2018

Legal operations directors from Walmart and Nationwide gave their artificial intelligence adoption strategies at the 2018 CLOC Conference.

Best Practices

5 Steps for Beginners to Implement a Knowledge Management System

Zach Warren | April 24, 2018

Knowledge management experts from Baker McKenzie and Cisco ran KM newcomers through their tips for starting a system at the 2018 CLOC Conference.

Reed Smith Enters the Legal Technology Market With GravityStack Subsidiary

Rhys Dipshan | April 24, 2018

The firm’s new U.S. subsidiary will incubate and license legal technology, as well as offer tech counseling and managed services to law firm and legal department clients.

News

HaystackID Acquires Inspired Review and Envision Discovery, Starts Own Holding Company

Ian Lopez | April 24, 2018

After exploring "a complete buyout," HaystackID acquires two e-discovery companies and formed its own privaty equity group, Haystack Holdings.

News

From Nigeria to Brazil to Canada: Access to Justice Tech on the International Stage

Rhys Dipshan | April 24, 2018

The array of access to justice solutions presented at the Global Legal Hackathon’s final round highlighted how such tech is taking hold around the world.

Event

Contracts Are More Than a Document: Finding the Value in Your Data

Zach Warren | April 23, 2018

A 2018 CLOC panel explored how to use data like contracts and intellectual property to drive company value outside of common legal work.

Event

Privacy Rights, Law Accessibility Win Big at Global Legal Hackathon Finale

Rhys Dipshan | April 23, 2018

The winning teams at the hackathon event focused on promoting user privacy and making the law more understandable to the everyday consumer.

News

Mitratech Acquires ThinkSmart to Expand Legal Operations Offering

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 23, 2018

The in-house technology company hopes that the new workflow automation tool can help organizations scale their legal operations management.

News

Lawyers Continue to Dominate Legal Ops Role, CLOC Study Shows

Stephanie Forshee | April 23, 2018

New data from CLOC and LawGeex shows that attorneys are parlaying their skills into legal ops roles.

News

No Standing for Monkey to Bring Selfie Copyright Suit

Scott Graham | April 23, 2018

Ninth Circuit Judges Carlos Bea and N. Randy Smith said an en banc panel of the court ought to reconsider whether animals ever have standing to bring claims.

News

#MeToo Comes to CLOC, as Female In-House Leaders Share Their Stories of Workplace Sexism

Caroline Spiezio | April 23, 2018

On its opening day, the CLOC Institute featured a frank discussion between female in-house leaders about gender and the very real problems they've faced in their careers just because they are women.

Product Review

AI in Law Firms to Deliver New Models of Legal Services

Sean Doherty| April 23, 2018

Sean Doherty takes a look at NexLP’s Story Engine product and the future of artificial intelligence in law.

A&O, Clifford Chance and Clyde & Co Among Firms on Board as Barclays Launches First London Legal Technology Hub

Anna Ward | April 23, 2018

The bank plans to open its first center dedicated to legal-technology entrepreneurs.

Event

Standardized Legal Security Assessment Should Be Reality, Says CLOC

Zach Warren | April 22, 2018

An opening-day session from the 2018 CLOC Conference explored the potential for a streamlined cybersecurity questionnaire from the corporate legal department and law firm perspective.

News

Judge Remands First Tezos Case, Splitting Pioneering ICO Securities Class Actions In 2

Ben Hancock | April 20, 2018

U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg agreed that the first case to be filed against Tezos belongs back in San Francisco Superior Court, in light of a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on jurisdiction.

News

DNC Files Civil Suit Against Trump, Russia Over Election Hacking

Colby Hamilton | April 20, 2018

The suit, drawing on the volume of reporting over the issue, seeks to subject Trump campaign officials, as well as Russia, to the civil discovery process.

News

Clearview Social Looks to Automate Attorney Blogging With PostHaste Tool

Rhys Dipshan | April 20, 2018

The blog automation and management platform strives to help attorneys engage more with conversations online.

Q&A

The Key to a Successful New Tech Roll-Out? 'Be Pragmatic'

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 20, 2018

Lindsay Barthram, Wilson Legal Solutions’ new director of consulting services for Europe, talks with LTN on spearheading technology at Fieldfisher, all-in-one tech solutions, and more.

Analysis

The Struggle to Keep Up With Data Privacy Regulations

Chris Maguire, Thomson Reuters| April 20, 2018

With changes occurring at such a rapid pace across all corners of the globe, it’s not surprising that organizations are increasingly finding themselves inadequately prepared to deal with privacy regulations.

News

Gavelytics Launches New Tool Crunching Numbers on SF Superior Court Judges

Ben Hancock | April 19, 2018

The platform is targeted at helping lawyers decide whether to "paper" a judge, as well as how to steer the litigation once it is off and running.

News

Uber Scores an Early (Mostly) Win in Lyft Drivers' Privacy Suit

Ross Todd | April 19, 2018

A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco knocked out state and federal privacy claims based on allegations that Uber used software to pose as Lyft passengers to spy on their rival's drivers. The judge however, allowed a claim brought under California's Unfair Competition Law survive.

News

A Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower’s Challenge to Social Media Collection

Ian Lopez | April 19, 2018

A veteran of data collection for political campaigns and social media, Brittany Kaiser says technologies like smart contracts can help build a framework for personal data as personal property.

Commentary

Brave New World of (Robot) Law

Jenna Greene | April 19, 2018

If your robot hurts someone, are you liable? Legally speaking, is a robot like a pet? An employee? Should robots have rights? In a new report, the U.S. Chamber Commerce contemplates not-so-distant questions about robot law.

News

Newly Integrated Litera Microsytems Launches Contract Drafting Tool

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 19, 2018

Clause Companion, a rework of Microsystems’ previous contract proofreading tool, allows users to store contract content to drag into new drafts.

Analysis

What Does the UK’s Top Fraud Investigator Want in E-discovery Tech?

Rhys Dipshan | April 19, 2018

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office has brought in several AI-powered e-discovery platforms to help with its document-intensive cases. But this agency is far from a normal e-discovery buyer.

News

Reed Smith Launches Tech Program for Select Summer Associates

Dan Packel | April 19, 2018

In a new twist on law firms' race to innovate, five summer associates in the United States and the U.K. will take on projects aimed at applying technology to legal services.

News

How Lawyers Used CFIUS Review to Defeat Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm

MP McQueen | April 18, 2018

The White House blocked Broadcom’s $117 billion bid to take over Qualcomm by issuing an executive order in March, citing national security concerns. Could it be the "poison pill" of the future?

News

Former ClearSlide GC Olga Mack Joins Quantstamp as VP of Strategy

Caroline Spiezio | April 18, 2018

Mack, who was formerly in-house at ClearSlide and Zoosk, was going to take some time off, but then found a job that she couldn't turn down.

News

Tech Inventor Sues AT&T for $1.8B Over 'Stolen' Streaming Platform

Greg Land | April 18, 2018

Erik Underwood's complaint accuses AT&T and four of its vendors of promising him millions of dollars to fund his project, only to steal his technology and abandon his company.

News

Contract Review Tool LawGeex Takes $12M in Series B Funding

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 18, 2018

The contract review platform will use the money to further develop its review capabilities, but plans to stay the course within an increasingly crowded contract analysis technology market.

Analysis

The ABC’s of Using Compliance Technology to Fight Bribery and Corruption

Brian Fahey, MyComplianceOffice| April 18, 2018

Risk management software can prevent anti-bribery and corruption violations while demonstrating to regulators that a company is serious about monitoring its supervised persons.

Analysis

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: You Can’t Master What You Don’t Measure

Eyal Iffergan, Hyperion Global Partners| April 18, 2018

Attorneys are finding that a quality data stream and audience-specific data models are essential to coping with the realities of the modern legal marketplace.

News

WHOIS—Web Tool Used by IP Attorneys, Law Enforcement—In Peril After EU Privacy Regulators Reject Proposed Fix

Ben Hancock | April 17, 2018

The public directory that contains information about who has registered every domain on the web looks increasingly at risk of going dark next month due to a clash with the GDPR.

News

Microsoft, Cisco and 32 Other Companies Sign 'Cybersecurity Tech Accord' to Build Global Trust

Caroline Spiezio | April 17, 2018

"By putting ourselves out there in this way, it will result in civil society and other organizations looking for other ways to hold the industry to account, in an age where talk is cheap," Cisco GC Mark Chandler told Corporate Counsel on Tuesday.

Global In-House: How to Make Your Case for Legal Operations Support

E. Leigh Dance| April 17, 2018

Corporate Legal Operations Consortium’s annual gig kicks off in Vegas next week, with more than double last year’s big crowd. This global in-house column explores why the legal ops role makes sense for companies headquartered worldwide, with bonus tips from the pros on how you can make it happen.

News

Tales From the Legal Tech Startup Community: Fundraising While Pregnant

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 17, 2018

Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt, the co-founders of Priori Legal, managed to land a major tech incubator investment, but dealing with fundraising and pregnancy at the same time wasn't easy.

News

Supreme Court Ruling Ends Microsoft Email Privacy Case

Tony Mauro | April 17, 2018

“No live dispute remains between the parties over the issue with respect to which certiorari was granted,” the court stated in a three-page order.

Analysis

Brexit and IP: Finally Some Real News, and What It Means for Attorneys

Mark Holah, Bird & Bird| April 17, 2018

A look inside the European Commission's updated version of the 'Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the [UK] from the [EU],' and what it means for intellectual property in the UK.

Analysis

Secure Remote Review: Leveraging the ‘E’ in E-Discovery

Jim Burke, Advanced Discovery| April 17, 2018

E-discovery has access to proven technology tools and can get the right documents in front of the right expert resources securely regardless of their location.

News

Judge Certifies Class of Illinois Facebook Users in Privacy Suit Over Facial Recognition

Ross Todd | April 16, 2018

The lawsuit, set to go to trial in July, confronts the company with billions in potential damages.

News

Thomson Reuters Looks Beyond Brexit with Latest Contract Service

Rhys Dipshan | April 16, 2018

The Financial Trade Documentation service aims to help financial institutions identify and renegotiate contracts that may be impacted after the UK leaves the European Union.

Preparing for Unfathomable Social Media Events

Erin S. Hennessy, Annie Allison and Salsabil Ahmed| April 16, 2018

How to Successfully Navigate Legal Challenges for Brands Online

Analysis

Questions Over Collection and Review Pile Up in Mueller Investigation

Ian Lopez | April 16, 2018

In the ongoing investigation involving evidence of varying data types from various sources, questions over evidence production and review loom.

Analysis

Does Cyberinsurance Cover Phishing Scams? Ask Your Local Federal Court

Rhys Dipshan | April 16, 2018

Federal courts are split on whether computer fraud provisions in cyberinsurance policies cover the actions of employees tricked into sending funds to cybercriminals.

Procurement and The New Legal Buy/Sell Dynamic

Mark A. Cohen| April 16, 2018

Procurement's expanding role in the legal industry is changing the way legal services are bought and sold.

Analysis

ISACA Turns 50 Next Year, But Isn’t Too Old to Reinvent

Jared Coseglia, TRU Staffing Partners| April 16, 2018

Known for its CISA and CISM audit certifications, ISACA pivots toward practical hands-on security training with CSXP.

LA Dodgers GC Says Technology Has Created Major League Changes for Baseball's Lawyers

Caroline Spiezio | April 13, 2018

The veteran legal leader spoke on Friday at Berkeley Law about "America's Pastime" and how in-house lawyers' roles in the sport have evolved over the decades.

News

With GDPR Fast Approaching, How Should Companies Fill the Data Protection Officer Role?

Caroline Spiezio | April 13, 2018

Many companies will need to hire or appoint a data protection officer under GDPR. But who should they go for?

Q&A

Thinking of Ditching Big Law for a Startup? Read This First

Xiumei Dong | April 13, 2018

Andrew Dick, Catherine Krow and James Lee all put Big Law careers behind them to become entrepreneurs. The Recorder caught up with the trio to discuss some lessons they've learned.

News

New Epiq Data Products Group Marks Data Science Push

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 13, 2018

The legal services and technology company will launch its data products group to move alongside its other innovation teams.

Product Review

App Bar: Data Breach Statutes to Go, Mobile Crypto Trading and More

Jesse Londin| April 13, 2018

LTN’s look at some of the mobile apps that might interest lawyers. This month, we feature BreachLawWATCH by Eversheds Sutherland, the NRA Institute for Legislative Action app, Robinhood Crypto, and Rules of Golf.

News

China Hacks on US Corporations Rising, With Law Firms, GCs Prime Targets

Ian Lopez | April 13, 2018

While China has been largely compliant with an agreement with the U.S. to not hack for intellectual property, new data indicates M&A info and contracts are viewed as fair game.

Analysis

The Law Firm Disrupted: The Most Bedeviling Aspect of Law Firm Change

Roy Strom | April 12, 2018

What the fast greens of the nation's most historic golf course can teach us about the pace of legal industry change.

News

VirnetX Scores $502.5M Verdict Against Apple

Scott Graham | April 12, 2018

It's the second nine-figure verdict obtained by the company and its Caldwell Cassady & Curry lawyers in the last year. But Apple says the PTAB has already invalidated all of the patents.

News

In Expanded Uber Settlement, FTC Hammers Home Security Message

Ben Hancock | April 12, 2018

The regulator warned tech companies to make sure their software development environments are secure. Uber's 2016 breach came after an engineer stored an access key to a cloud database in code hosted on GitHub.

Analysis

Facebook Collected Users' Text and Calls Logs. Will the FTC Act?

Rhys Dipshan | April 12, 2018

On Android mobile operating systems, Facebook could bundle its permissions requests, leaving users in the dark about exactly what data the mobile app was collecting.

News

Deadline for The American Lawyer Awards Approaching

Gina Passarella Cipriani | April 12, 2018

Check out the categories in our American Lawyer Awards for which submissions are due week. Some exciting new opportunities for those in the industry to show how they are revolutionizing the way legal services are delivered.

News

Legal Tech Hits Probate Lawyers: EstateExec Looks to Streamline Estate Settlement

Rhys Dipshan | April 12, 2018

The project management platform for estate settlement doesn’t aim to replace lawyers, but it does allow users to perform many administrative and financial tasks on their own.

News

IT Auditors Still Have a Ways to Go to Secure Systems

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 12, 2018

A recent survey from Protiviti and ISACA found that 37 percent of businesses have yet to cybersecurity in their audit plans.

Analysis

ABA President Challenges Legal Technologists: ‘Be Bold, Be Adventurous, Be Courageous’

Mark Michels, Deloitte| April 12, 2018

At the Stanford CodeX FutureLaw conference, Hilarie Bass noted that the ABA has several initiatives underway to spur technology innovation.

News

Chase Credit Card Customers 'Duped' by Fees for Crypto Purchases, Suit Says

Colby Hamilton | April 11, 2018

According to the complaint, Chase credit card customers began having their cryptocurrency purchases treated as cash advances beginning in late January.

News

Too Fast for Comfort? Cloud-Based App Deployment Outpacing Security Abilities

Rhys Dipshan | April 11, 2018

The 2018 Enterprise Cloud Trends report found that most organizations' IT staff are struggling to keep up with the demand for cost-effective enterprise cloud applications.

News

New DNA Forensic Science Comes Under Scrutiny at GSU Law Symposium

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 11, 2018

A panel at Georgia State University Law discussed the potential and limitations of current computing methods in DNA forensics.

Analysis

What to Expect from Your Mass Notification System

Brett Andrew, AlertMedia| April 11, 2018

Technology can help keep people safe, informed and connected during an emergency. Here are 10 characteristics of modern notification systems.

News

Illinois Biometric Privacy Law—and Effort to Carve Out Exceptions—Gets Moment in Spotlight at Facebook Hearing

Ross Todd | April 10, 2018

Business interests are aiming to roll back portions of an Illinois law meant to protect biometric identifiers such as fingerprints and facial structure.

News

Mark Zuckerberg Brings In-House Legal, Lobbying Entourage to Capitol Hill

C. Ryan Barber | April 10, 2018

As he testifies before nearly half the U.S. Senate, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has his company’s in-house legal and lobbying teams at his back.

News

Kasowitz’s New IP Lawyer Daniel Miller Talks Patent Litigation

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 10, 2018

Miller said companies will likely be faced with addressing patent work with an eye to more globalized markets in the future.

Commentary

After the Driverless Fatality, Insurance and Litigation Will Be Forever Changed

Randy Maniloff| April 10, 2018

Unlike an inconsequential glitch with your office computer, in the case of driverless cars it's control, alt and someone’s life is deleted.

Update

Catalyst Acquires TotalDiscovery, Expanding Legal Hold, Collection Capabilities

Zach Warren | April 10, 2018

The deal will primarily be used to expand Catalyst’s core offering to offer an integrated program, Insight Discovery, that spans the EDRM.

Product Review

Running After Regulations: Nasdaq BWise Announces Rule Management Tool

Rhys Dipshan | April 10, 2018

BWise Regulatory Change Management will offer "augmented regulatory content" that helps explain how a rule change will affect a financial company.

Analysis

The Essential Ingredients to Rolling Out a Global E-Discovery Playbook

Wendy King and Daryl Teshima, FTI Technology| April 10, 2018

You need experienced people, advanced technology and targeted processes—and there isn’t one that’s more important than the others.

BitGo’s New CLO Compares Cryptocurrency to Hedge Funds

Stephanie Forshee | April 09, 2018

In a Q&A with Corporate Counsel, Shahla Ali of BitGo said that the regulatory situation for cryptocurrency reminds her of what hedge funds faced a decade or two ago.

News

While Zuck Goes Hat-in-Hand to Congress, Facebook's Lawyers Hit Back at Data Suits

Amanda Bronstad | April 09, 2018

In the runup to Mark Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony, Facebook's lawyers at Gibson Dunn claimed that the company "broke no laws and violated no legal duties" in a filing before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

RelativityOne Breaks Ground in Hong Kong Amidst Growing Local Market

Rhys Dipshan | April 09, 2018

The expansion, which comes only months after RelativityOne was launched in the UK, will be the first deployment of the cloud-based technology in Asia.

News

New Tool From Cornell Law Students Helps Immigrants Plan for the Worst

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 09, 2018

Cornell Law students and the Immigration Advocates Network has developed a contingency planning tool for immigrants who fear they may be deported.

Product Review

Review: FileTrail GPS for Law Firms Reins in Documents from the Outer Limits of Retention

Sean Doherty| April 09, 2018

Sean Doherty tests FileTrail GPS for Law Firms, which automatically classifies and applies retention policies to documents and automates the disposition, review, and destruction of documents.

Analysis

Point of Fail? The Aftermath of the Saks Hack

Ian Lopez | April 09, 2018

The breach compromised the data of over 5 million Saks and Lord & Taylor customers. Parent company Hudson's Bay says it's dealing with the situation, though concerns remain.

News

2 Proposals Open Door to Free Driverless Testing Programs

Cheryl Miller | April 06, 2018

If the pilot programs are approved, the utility commission will begin crafting "a broader framework" allowing companies to accept paying passenger.

News

Liability Questions Loom in Delta Vendor Breach

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 06, 2018

In the event of a third-party breach, multinational corporations such as Delta potentially face breach notification requirements in multiple states.

Podcast

The Anatomy of a Deal: Fintech Edition

Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum | April 06, 2018

This week, we take a close look at a deal in which finance and technology intersect, orchestrated by one of The American Lawyer's Dealmakers of the Year.

News

ACA Compliance Group Acquires Cordium, Expanding European GRC Services

Zach Warren | April 06, 2018

The acquisition of London-based Cordium will expand ACA’s services in Europe and provide a post-Brexit EU office.

The GDPR’s 'Legitimate Interest' Is Creating Legitimate Confusion

Rhys Dipshan | April 06, 2018

Many companies will seek to process data under the legitimate interest basis of the EU’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation. But that doesn’t mean they necessarily understand it.

News

We Can't All Be 'Big Law' Partners and Other Takeaways From Stanford's #FutureLaw Conference

Ben Hancock | April 05, 2018

The importance of technology and specialization in the future of the legal profession, as well as the benefits and pitfalls of AI, were major themes at this year's event.

News

GE Regulatory Lawyer Michael Fitzpatrick Helping to Shape World of Tomorrow

Sue Reisinger | April 05, 2018

Fitzpatrick and GE outside counsel Lisa Ellman of Hogan Lovells recently spoke with Corporate Counsel about emerging technologies.

Best Practices

Cybersecurity Vendors and Law Firms Partner Up, But Caution Still Advised

Miriam Rozen | April 05, 2018

While partnerships between cybersecurity companies and law firms are on the rise, “there is a lot of potential for conflicts of interest,” said one partner at an Am Law 100 firm.

News

This Legal Ops Veteran Wants In-House and Outside Counsel to Be Friends

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 05, 2018

With both law firm and law department experience under his belt, Christopher Sweet wants to see in-house counsel and law firms find new ways to relate.

With 'SoLI' Conference, Vanderbilt Law Set Sights on Legal Innovation Barriers

Rhys Dipshan | April 05, 2018

The one-day Summit on Law and Innovation at Vanderbilt Law will aim to to foster collaboration between legal practitioners, legal educators and technologists.

Commentary

Nervous System: The Boy Who Could Talk to Computers

David Kalat, Berkeley Research Group| April 05, 2018

'Nervous System,' which approaches data privacy and cybersecurity issues from the context of history, tells the story of telephone 'hacker' Joe Engressia.

News

Microsoft CLO Announces 'Shared Innovation Initiative' to Boost Collaboration, Protect IP

Caroline Spiezio | April 05, 2018

"There is growing concern that without an approach that ensures that customers own key patents to their new solutions, tech companies will use the knowledge to enter their customer’s market and compete against them—perhaps even using the IP that customers helped create," CLO Brad Smith wrote in a blog post.

News

Georgia Bill Raises Concerns, Questions for 'White Hat' Hackers

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 04, 2018

A new bill passed through Georgia's General Assembly bans "unauthorized computer access," leaving security researchers concerned about the potential for prosecution.

Analysis

Why State AGs Are Panning Proposed Federal Breach Notification Law

Rhys Dipshan | April 04, 2018

States worry the Data Acquisition and Technology Accountability and Security Act would restrict their ability to go after enterprises that keep breaches hidden.