News

A Brewing Storm: Former Chopper Trading Founder Bringing Collaboration to Legal

Zach Warren | June 19, 2018

Workstorm is a collaboration platform with video conferencing, messaging, secure file share, surveys and a native email client, focused on integration with other legal tools.

Q&A

LogMeIn Has Grown From $30M to $1B, and Its GC Has Scaled Legal Alongside. Here's How.

Caroline Spiezio | June 19, 2018

Donahue has seen his company through an IPO and a major merger. He told LTN sister site Corporate Counsel how he's balanced it all and helped LogMeIn scale in a big way.

News

Delaware Class Action Folded into Facebook, Cambridge Analytica MDL

Tom McParland | June 18, 2018

A federal judicial panel on Monday added a Delaware class action against Facebook Inc. and Cambridge Analytica to multidistrict litigation in a California federal court.

News

Adobe's IP Leader Dana Rao Becomes Company's Top Legal Boss

Caroline Spiezio | June 18, 2018

Rao has been associate general counsel of intellectual property and litigation since April 2012 at Adobe. He succeeds Mike Dillon.

In Brief

NY Department of Financial Services Grants Cryptocurrency License to Square

MP McQueen | June 18, 2018

The state’s top financial regulator said that the company founded by Twitter Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey had obtained the license giving New York residents the ability to buy and sell bitcoin through its Cash App.

Q&A

'Run Your Own Show': The Rise of Discovery-as-a-Service

Ari Kaplan, Ari Kaplan Advisors| June 18, 2018

In this podcast excerpt, Ari Kaplan talks with Robb Caruso of Compliance Discovery Solutions about Discovery-as-a-Service: what it is and what it says about the legal tech market.

Analysis

ABA Model Rule 1.6's Lessons on Maintaining Confidentiality Online

Shari Klevens and Alanna Clair, Dentons| June 18, 2018

Information that is protected as 'confidential' is generally broader than what is considered “privileged.” As confirmed by the opinion, confidential information can include the client’s identity.

News

As Illinois Moves to E-Filing, Legal Tech Providers Go the Extra Mile

Rhys Dipshan | June 18, 2018

State-authorized e-filing providers are offering a slew of incentives to attract local e-filing business. But one of their biggest competitors is the state itself.

Analysis

The GDPR's Idea of Consent Isn't the Same as the U.S. Legal Framework

Batya Forsyth and Everett Monroe, Hanson Bridgett| June 18, 2018

The GDPR sets a much higher standard for valid consent that makes obtaining and maintaining it from its users more difficult than the U.S. legal framework.

News

In-House Gives Mixed Reaction to UnitedLex, LeClairRyan Legal Services Venture

Sue Reisinger | June 18, 2018

A group of experts with plenty of in-house legal experience expressed both enthusiasm and some skepticism about the new ULX Partners launch.

News

White & Case Welcomes Back Senior In-House Technology Lawyer

Xiumei Dong | June 15, 2018

Howard Wettan, a former counsel at White & Case, has returned to the firm as a partner in Silicon Valley after serving as an associate general counsel at Visa Inc.

News

8 Projects That Hope to Hack Access to Justice

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | June 15, 2018

The Florida Justice Technology Center's recent Legal Aid Hackathon produced the seeds of eight new projects hoping to tackle access to justice in different ways.

Analysis

On-Demand Legal Providers Want to Put State Battles Behind Them

Rhys Dipshan | June 15, 2018

After years of fighting state bar associations, on-demand legal services companies like Avvo, LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer have shifted to evolving their businesses.

Analysis

The Benefits of Digital Transformation Through Contract Lifecycle Management

Chase Bradshaw, Concord| June 15, 2018

A simple task that takes hours can be automated to free up time to focus on delivering strategic value.

News

Judge Grills Anthem Case Plaintiffs Lawyers Over Discovery, Counsel Selection

Ross Todd | June 14, 2018

At a hearing on a special master's report on the firms' billings, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh asked for more detailed records about who did what on discovery, deposition and settlement issues in the case.

Analysis

3 Takeaways From SEC CorpFin Director's Big Crypto Speech

Ben Hancock | June 14, 2018

SEC Division of Corporate Finance Director William Hinman's remarks at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit offered some of the clearance indication to date of how the regulator analyzes initial coin offerings.

News

eDPM Advisory Wants to Help You Get Serious About Project Management

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | June 14, 2018

The newly launched company, headed by former Stroock director of litigation services Michael Quartararo, aims to help organizations navigate litigation project management

News

What's Holding Blockchain Back? It Could Be the Regulatory Confusion

Rhys Dipshan | June 14, 2018

A survey by Ernest and Young found that most corporate professionals believed regulatory complexity posed the biggest barrier to adoption of blockchain technologies.

News

Wilson Sonsini Names First 'Corporate Strategic Innovation Counsel'

Xiumei Dong | June 14, 2018

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has promoted associate David Yi Wang to lead innovation efforts, while also nabbing Squire Patton Boggs corporate and securities partner Kenji Funahashi.

Live Coverage

The Journey of Law Firm Security Assessments, From Genesis to Review

Zach Warren | June 14, 2018

Legal ops professionals from Disney and Walgreens captured the changing law firm cybersecurity paradigm and some of the bumps they encountered in building evaluation programs.

News

Tech Companies Say 'The Fight is Far From Over' as Net Neutrality Ends

Caroline Spiezio| June 14, 2018

'Although the 2015 net neutrality rules ended this week, the fight is far from over,' said Michael Cheah, the general counsel of Vimeo, in a statement. He wasn't the only person in tech upset about the end of this Obama-era regulation.

Live Coverage

Federal Judges Say Courts Are Stepping Up Their Security Game

Dan Clark| June 14, 2018

Three judges spoke at a Philadelphia cybersecurity conference Wednesday about their own experiences with data security in the courts.

News

Will LeClairRyan's UnitedLex Deal Be the Accelerant Big Law Innovation Needs?

Roy Strom | June 13, 2018

A New Law initiative could face some of the same old obstacles to change in the high-end legal services industry.

Slideshow

6 GDPR Complications Right Out of the Gate

Rhys Dipshan | June 13, 2018

Though the GDPR came online on May 25, there are signs that not everyone was ready for the regulation to hit prime time.

Live Coverage

No More Stigma of the ‘Non’: Where Non-Lawyers Fit in the Legal Ops Ecosystem

Zach Warren | June 13, 2018

While there are differences between lawyers and those without JDs, the gulf is not so great that non-lawyers should be excluded from legal tasks, said panelists at the ACC's Legal Operations conference.

The Game Changing Potential of Combining Tech, Talent and Diversity: An Interview with Caren Ulrich Stacy of Diversity Lab

Erin Hichman | June 13, 2018

The gender gap, diversity and legal technology: Caren Ulrich Stacy, Founder & CEO of Diversity Lab, explains to me the great strides made in solving the first two and leveraging the third.

News

UnitedLex and LeClairRyan Announce Innovative New Law Venture

Miriam Rozen | June 13, 2018

LeClairRyan has become the first law firm to sign on to what UnitedLex Corp. hopes will be a pioneering alliance between Big Law and New Law. The company's CEO expects that law firms could see their profits per partner rise up to 15 percent a year if they join the newly formed ULX Partners.

News

Student Data Mining Is A Black Box, Finds Fordham Law Study

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | June 13, 2018

The study, prepared by the Fordham Law School Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) found that student data is commercially available, though subjects aren't always aware they're providing information.

Commentary

First Mile-Last Mile Problems Create Bumpy Road in Legal Tech Innovation

Daniel B. Rodriguez| June 12, 2018

The economic evidence indicates that the first and last mile add disproportionately to the costs of the service, and the challenge is to reduce the unique costs borne by companies of beginning and ending the journey on these otherwise efficient networks.

News

4 Nation-States Should Prompt Major Cyber Worries in the US, Fed Security Official Says

Dan Clark | June 12, 2018

Keith Morales of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank spoke at a conference Tuesday about the unique threats posed by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

Live Coverage

4 GCs, 4 Different Strategies for Reducing Cost Through Legal Operations

Zach Warren | June 12, 2018

Four general counsel at the ACC's Legal Operations Conference keynote explained their different approaches to the same issue: demonstrating value to the business.

News

Contract Management in the New Legal Profession: A Q&A With New Elevate Execs

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | June 12, 2018

The legal services group’s new vice president of legal services and head of contracts consulting point out some transformations in contract work.

Analysis

The Problem with Law Schools? They Only Prepare Future Lawyers

Rhys Dipshan | June 12, 2018

Speakers at the Thomson Reuters 2018 Legal Executive Forum in New York argue that legal education has fallen behind as the legal industry has shifted to serve more operational and business needs.

Analysis

Better Safe Than Sorry: 10 Ways to Prepare for Government Investigations

Aaron Vick, Cicayda| June 12, 2018

Your response in the hours and days following an investigation inquiry strongly impacts the eventual outcome.

News

These Companies and Trade Groups Spent Millions Lobbying on Net Neutrality

MP McQueen | June 11, 2018

As the Federal Communications Commission considered repealing net neutrality under new FCC chairman Ajit Pai last year, telecom and tech companies, internet service providers and consumer and open-internet advocacy groups poured millions of dollars into lobbying the commission and members of Congress, spending that continued into the first quarter of 2018. Here are some law firms that benefited.

Commentary

How to Keep Your Mobile Workspace Secure: 12 Tips to Follow

Evan Kline| June 11, 2018

News of GrayKey, an iPhone unlocking device, has highlighted the importance of mobile security. With GrayKey, a user can connect a cable to an iPhone and unlock it, bypassing or brute forcing the user’s passcode.

News

Not Just Corporate: Law Firms Too Are Struggling With GDPR Compliance

Rhys Dipshan | June 11, 2018

A survey by Wolters Kluwer found that less than half of law firms are fully prepared to meet the GDPR’s requirements.

Best Practices

How to Execute a Legal Project

Lean Adviser Legal| June 11, 2018

Establish what's critical, and then focus on that, applying the appropriate resources to every necessary task.

Slideshow

10 Cities with Legal Tech Scenes to Watch

Ian Lopez | June 11, 2018

Who said there's only one hub of innovation? These international cities are spawning their own legal technology scenes.

Analysis

Protecting Privilege Before and After a Cyber Breach

Robert W. Anderson and Eric B. Levine, Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper| June 11, 2018

Critical to any counsel working to prevent a cyber-attack or respond to a successful cyber intrusion is an understanding why and how to properly utilize both attorney-client and work-product privilege.

News

Juridoc Brings Online Legal Services to Brazil

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | June 08, 2018

The new service, launched in February, hopes to bring new technology into online legal services offerings.

News

LegalZoom Offers Free Legal Service to Patients Rising Members. Just Don’t Call It Pro Bono.

Rhys Dipshan | June 08, 2018

LegalZoom has partnered with non-profit advocacy patient organization Patients Rising to allow its members free access to legal, financial, tax and insurance advice in an expansion of LegalZoom’s Lifeplan service.

News

Investors Claim Securities Fraud in Cryptocurrency's $17M Initial Offering

Charles Toutant | June 07, 2018

Although the developers depicted the Latium initial coin offering as a sale of "utility-based tokens," it was subject to the Securities Act of 1933 because investors were promised that the tokens would be worth more than the price they paid, according to the suit.

News

GDPR Can Make Catching Domain Name IP Violators Tougher, Attorneys Say

Dan Clark | June 07, 2018

GDPR has raised some new issues around domain ownership and infringement. But hold tight—the situation may improve down the road.

News

Norton Rose Fulbright Rebuilds Cybersecurity Group With New Practice Leaders

Miriam Rozen | June 07, 2018

Five months after watching the leaders of its cybersecurity and data protection team decamp for Cooley, Norton Rose Fulbright has raided two other Am Law 100 firms to restock its privacy practice.

News

Legal Operations Isn't So Different Across the Pond

Dan Clark | June 07, 2018

There are some distinctions in how legal operations is conducted in Europe versus the US, experts say, but ops is not as different as one might expect.

News

Smarsh, Actiance Announce New CEO of Combined Company, Brian Cramer

Zach Warren | June 07, 2018

Brian Cramer, former Smarsh president and chief operating officer, is taking the position of CEO, while both former company CEOs will be on the board of directors.

News

Accord Project Takes First Steps Toward 'Blockchain Agnostic' Smart Contract

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | June 07, 2018

In the project's first prototype of a smart contract language, Ergo attempts to ease translation from natural language to machine-readable, executable code.

LexisNexis, Australian Human Rights Commission Look to Tame Emerging Tech

Rhys Dipshan | June 07, 2018

Alongside government, academic and legal organizations, LexisNexis will participate in an Australian Human Rights Commission project examining emerging technologies' impact on human rights.

Analysis

Mobile Marketing Under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act: Do You Have the Consent You Need?

Ana Tagvoryan, Jeffrey Rosenthal and Harrison Brown, Blank Rome| June 07, 2018

Recent legal trends can help distinguish between informational and transactional text communications, and those that may cross the line into marketing and advertising.

News

Class Actions Against Facebook, Cambridge Analytica Consolidated in N.D. California

Amanda Bronstad| June 07, 2018

Facebook and several of the plaintiffs had supported the move to multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of California.

News

Cisco Urges Federal Circuit to Double Down on 'Oracle v. Google'

Scott Graham | June 06, 2018

During Wednesday's appellate showdown with rival Arista Networks, the networking giant repeatedly invoked the court's controversial copyrightability case.

11th Circuit Erases FTC Ruling That Ordered ‘Sweeping’ Data Security Program

C. Ryan Barber | June 06, 2018

"The cease and desist order contains no prohibitions. It does not instruct LabMD to stop committing a specific act or practice. Rather, it commands LabMD to overhaul and replace its data-security program to meet an indeterminable standard of reasonableness. This command is unenforceable,” the appeals court said.

Analysis

Rule 30(b)(6) May See First Substantive Change in Nearly 50 Years

Alvin Lee and Chad Smith| June 06, 2018

The proposed amendment is significant because it would create additional and entirely new discovery obligations on corporations who receive 30(b)(6) deposition notices.

News

New Colorado Law Sets 30-Day Requirement for Data Breach Notification

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | June 06, 2018

The 30-day notification window does not provide for any specific exemptions and is the shortest of any state.

News

Velcro Fights Trademark Misuse With Second Music Video, Starring 'In-House Lawyers'

Caroline Spiezio | June 06, 2018

Velcro and its legal department strike back at trolls, haters and trademark infringers in a sequel to their September 2017 music video.

Analysis

Navigating Software License Disputes: 5 Steps to an Amicable Resolution

Bryan Mechell and Kris Teng, Robins Kaplan| June 06, 2018

Parties involved in negotiating and resolving license-compliance disputes can consider various strategies to help navigate the process and avoid expensive litigation.

News

Casepoint Latest Federal E-Discovery Provider to Meet Heightening Public Sector Demand

Rhys Dipshan | June 06, 2018

The e-discovery provider’s move to serve federal clients represents a growing demand for e-discovery services from the public sector.

Has Hong Kong's Legal Tech Moment Arrived?

Rhys Dipshan | June 06, 2018

A movement is taking hold in the city to bring legal tech into the mainstream and make Hong Kong a legal tech player in its own right. Will it succeed?

News

Government Agencies May Have to Deal With Text Message Archiving

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | June 05, 2018

A new report from communications retention company Smarsh found that only half of public agencies who allow employees to communicate via text are able to store those messages.

News

Druva Acquires Disaster Recovery Company CloudRanger, Aims for 'Unified' Cloud Vision

Zach Warren | June 05, 2018

CloudRanger provides server management software aimed at businesses and enterprises operating in the cloud, allowing for customized scheduling and backup policies.

Analysis

The Role of ‘Gamesmanship’ in E-Discovery

Ben Sexton, JND eDiscovery| June 05, 2018

Increased penalties alone do not appear to be the antidote for bad faith discovery practices, particularly when detection is so difficult. But until changes are made, a few steps can ensure the best outcome possible.

News

New Jersey Supreme Court Won't Take Up Avvo Ethics Case

David Gialanella| June 04, 2018

An opinion by New Jersey legal ethics authorities that deemed Avvo off-limits to lawyers in the state will not be reviewed by the state Supreme Court.

Analysis

3 Things to Know: Experts Sound Off on Smart Contracts

Ben Hancock | June 04, 2018

Highlights from the latest Legal Speak podcast on how smart contracts will change what lawyers do.

News

Polsinelli Adds 4-Lawyer Data Breach Team as Hiring Spree Rolls On

Roy Strom | June 04, 2018

Polsinelli has added nearly 30 partners this year. Two of the latest lateral hires will lead the firm's privacy and cybersecurity practice.

News

Q&A: Penn State Prof. Anne Toomey McKenna on Tackling the Evolving Nature of Cyber Law

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | June 04, 2018

The newly appointed Penn State professor sees a lot of room for questions in the evolving cyber law landscape, but so far there are few answers.

News

'Global Legaltech Venture Days' Takes On an Increasingly Globalized Legal Sphere

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | June 04, 2018

The new competition and incubator program, hosted by Spain’s IE Law, ONTIER, Law Schools Global League and South Summit, will vet early-stage startups.

Analysis

Mandatory Arbitration Agreements May Not be Immutable in Cryptocurrency Litigation

Todd Friedman, Kenny Nachwalter; and Justin Wales, Carlton Fields| June 04, 2018

Public access prevailed in the Eleventh Circuit’s recent Leidel v. Coinbase decision, which provides insight for how aggrieved investors may be able to draft pleadings against third-party money service providers.

Analysis

Nervous System: The Small Start of Big Data

David Kalat, Berkeley Research Group| June 04, 2018

'Nervous System,' which approaches data privacy and cybersecurity issues from the context of history, tells the story of modern database systems and the evolution of storing data.

News

Breach of Contract Lawsuit Survives Google's Motion to Dismiss

Samantha Joseph | June 01, 2018

The suit stems from a 2008 agreement with Googles, a children's programming company.

News

Two FTC Lawyers Win Liability Protection for Roles Leading Data-Breach Case

C. Ryan Barber | June 01, 2018

The two FTC lawyers did not violate rights of LabMD's chief-executive, the D.C. Circuit said Friday, because the agency's enforcement action against had an alternative cause: a data breach that exposed a file containing the personal information of nearly 10,000 patients.

Analysis

The Future of Law: Creating Your Own Marketplace of Ideas

Frank Ramos, Clarke Silverglate| June 01, 2018

Can’t attend a major conference? Creating a forum centered around legal tech isn’t as much work as you think.

News

Wiggin's Legal Tech Startup Eyes Tech Revamp, Global Expansion After Big Pay Day

Ian Lopez | June 01, 2018

Wiggin's INCOPRO plans to use a $21 million investment to upgrade its IP technology and expand further into markets in China, the U.S. and Europe.

News

Epiq Acquires Soliton Systems’ E-Discovery Business, Japanese Character Processing

Zach Warren | May 31, 2018

The acquisition provides a direct answer to the East Asian language barrier problems many U.S.-based e-discovery providers face.

News

Behind Sanofi's Response to Roseanne’s ‘Ambien Tweeting’ Excuse

C. Ryan Barber | May 31, 2018

Chan Lee, the North America general counsel to drugmaker Sanofi, explains how the company's now-famous social media response to Roseanne Barr came about. "The approval of that tweet was a fairly easy one for me," Lee says.

News

New Data on Trade Secrets Cases Can Point the Way for General Counsel

Sue Reisinger | May 31, 2018

Claimants, primarily companies, won about 71 percent of trade secret cases, and a majority of the defendants are former employees, according to new research from legal analytics research company Lex Machina.

News

Trump Lawyers Resist DNC Hack Discovery Demand, Calling It a 'Fishing Expedition'

C. Ryan Barber | May 31, 2018

'Discovery also threatens to prejudice individuals who have been or will be indicted, by potentially requiring them to sit for civil depositions despite their privilege against self-incrimination,' Jones Day partner Michael Carvin said in a new filing in Washington's federal trial court.

News

Skadden, Ropes & Gray Advise on Alibaba's $1.4B China Logistics Deal

Anna Zhang | May 31, 2018

The e-commerce giant joined forces with subsidiary Cainiao Network to take a 10 percent stake in Chinese courier ZTO.

News

Georgia State Bar, Attorneys Take Georgia’s Cybersecurity Woes to Heart

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | May 31, 2018

A new cybersecurity program offered by the State Bar of Georgia hopes to help Georgia attorneys learn to deal with cyberrisk.

Analysis

The Future and the Promise of Smart Contracts

David Zaslowsky, Ben Allgrove and Yoon Chae, Baker McKenzie| May 31, 2018

Smart contracts may be new, but they hold promise in executing and performing legal agreements.

Analysis

CLOC Reflections: 5 First-Time Attendees Give Their Thoughts Before, During and After the Institute

D. Casey Flaherty| May 31, 2018

World-weary veterans can become dismissive of the core conference fare as being largely geared towards beginners. But that's a feature, not a bug. D. Casey Flaherty spoke with these beginners to find their unique perspective on CLOC 2018.

Commentary

What Clients Really Want From Outside Counsel

Lean Adviser Legal| May 31, 2018

It doesn't take a magic formula or a lengthy pitch to impress clients, just master these five fundamentals.

News

Post-Merger, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Sells Stake in Lawyers on Demand

Joseph Evans | May 30, 2018

Since spinning off in 2012, the business has grown rapidly, merging with Australian contract attorney outfit AdventBalance in 2016 and expanding to more than 600 lawyers and consultants.

News

Microsoft CLO Reflects on U.S. v. Microsoft, Says It Provides Antitrust Lessons for Facebook

Caroline Spiezio | May 30, 2018

At the Code Conference, Microsoft CLO Brad Smith said Facebook's current situation has parallels to the famous United States v. Microsoft antitrust case.

News

US Ban on Russian Anti-Virus Firm's Software Survives Court Challenge

C. Ryan Barber | May 30, 2018

“These defensive actions may very well have adverse consequences for some third parties. But that does not make them unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington said in her ruling Wednesday against Kaspersky Lab Inc.

News

How Holland & Knight’s Innovation Arm Underpins Cybersecurity, Data Privacy Pursuits

Ian Lopez | May 30, 2018

Holland & Knight's HKLab is used in helping clients with cybersecurity efforts by marrying the "disconnect between people on the engineering and legal sides."

Analysis

Platform Diving: How to Make Your Cloud Computing a Perfect 10

Kenneth Jones, Tanenbaum Keale LLP| May 30, 2018

Modern cloud services can provide value for law firm or corporate legal department needs in some unexpected places if you know where to look.

Analysis

You’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat: Small Firms Face Large Privacy Requirements

Mark Sangster, eSentire| May 30, 2018

Small firms can find themselves trapped between cyberattacks, like ransomware, that don’t prejudice based on the size of firm, and regulators who are indifferent to your size, when investigating a potential violation.

Analysis

AI's Impact on Discovery: More than TAR 2.0?

LTN Staff| May 30, 2018

Is AI in e-discovery just TAR 2.0? A Q&A with two professionals who have used it.

News

Facebook's Advertising Algorithm at the Center of Age-Bias Job Recruitment Suit

Erin Mulvaney | May 30, 2018

Facebook is not a defendant in the case, but major U.S. companies are accused of violating employment law in recruitment practices that use the social media company's advertising platforms.

Update

Ninth Circuit Pumps the Brakes on Facebook Biometric Trial

Ross Todd | May 29, 2018

The Ninth Circuit has granted an emergency motion by Facebook Inc. in its bid to defeat a privacy class action over biometric data.

News

Beyond GDPR, There’s Still Local DPA Regulation to Consider

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | May 29, 2018

A new legislative tracker from U.K.-based firm Bird & Bird hopes to help organizations keep track of specific privacy regulations across the EU's member states outside of just the GDPR.

Slideshow

White & Case's New Silicon Valley Office Includes Virtual Reality

Xiumei Dong | May 29, 2018

From virtual reality headgear to Peloton bikes and collaborative working space, White & Case's new office in Palo Alto is inspired by the firm's technology clients.

Analysis

The Different Levels of Software Patent Infringement Based on Statutory Claim Type

Joe Herndon and Eddie Obissi, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff| May 29, 2018

The varying standards for infringement of software-related patent claims have practical implications that should affect strategy when drafting a patent, particularly when drafting a set of claims.

The Law Firm Cybersecurity Audit Grows Up

Rhys Dipshan | May 29, 2018

In the face of new threats, law firm cybersecurity assessments have become more engaging and demanding affairs. But many hope this new change is just the beginning of a more fundamental shift.

News

Welcome to the GDPR: Complaints Lobbed at Facebook, Google That Could Carry Billions in Penalties

Ben Hancock | May 25, 2018

"None of Your Business," an EU organization headed by Austrian privacy lawyer and activist Max Schrems, has filed four separate complaints against the U.S. tech giants alleging they are forcing users to consent to new privacy policies with an "all or nothing" approach.

News

Worried About the GDPR? Some Say It's the Y2K of Data Privacy

Dan Clark | May 25, 2018

Attorneys who work on data and privacy matters say it's unlikely most companies need to worry about multimillion-dollar fines and close probes by regulators just yet.

Podcast

Lawyers, Fear Not the Smart Contract

Vanessa Blum | Leigh Jones | May 25, 2018

This week’s Legal Speak podcast explores the basics of smart contract technology, its limitations and what adoption means for transactional lawyers.

News

BDO Launches GDPR Edge to Help Companies Deal With Subject Access Requests

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | May 25, 2018

The new product is finding ways to create marketable data out of a regulation aimed at data minimization.

Analysis

4 Ways to Leverage E-Discovery Workflows and Technology for GDPR Compliance

Joe Mulenex, Exterro| May 25, 2018

E-discovery professionals may not realize that they’re in a position to assist with GDPR compliance by leveraging processes and technology already in place