Sitting with the C-Suite: eDiscovery Observations – Historical Lookback to 1990s and 2000s
Businesses generate documentation and data at a rapid pace, both on and offline. Industries like banking and the financial sector regularly manage thousands of different types of documents. Keeping up with this cumulative...more
The past two presidential administrations have seen major shifts in U.S. trade policy impacting all aspect of the digital ecosystem, from trade in physical technology products to new initiatives limiting data flows. Join...more
One of the best examples I have recently seen on the power of data driven compliance is playing out in real time in the NBA. It is the Jontay Porter betting scandal. This event had driven home why transparency, coupled with...more
If you’re an attorney, a paralegal, an investigator, a law enforcement officer, or even if you just watch a lot of legal dramas on television, you’re likely familiar with the term “chain of custody”....more
When Steve Davis was starting out as an investigator 30 years ago, forensics work required travel by, as he says, “planes, trains, and automobiles.” Forensic investigators lugged around pelican cases – sturdy,...more
In the fourth installment of our series on the 2023 Legal Industry Collaboration Data Survey, we turn our attention to an intriguing aspect revealed by the survey: the fluctuating confidence levels in managing legal data...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Federal court in New York reaffirms that reading information aloud to customers who are blind or low vision is still an acceptable auxiliary aid or service and retailers do not have to offer accessible...more
On November 27, 2023, the European Union ("EU") adopted the final text of the Data Act, marking an effort to create a harmonized, cross-sectoral data sharing framework with the stated goal of ensuring fair access to and use...more
As interest rates and financial pressures on families continue to mount, more and more drivers may be unable to pay their repair bill for damage they caused or for mechanical issues on their vehicles. A common response is...more
The President of India gave assent for the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 on 11 August 2023, a matter of days after it had been passed by both the Lower and Upper House. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act...more
We interview Professor Ben Handel of the University of California, Berkeley to gain his insights into the benefits, concerns of bias, and potential for the use of algorithms in healthcare. You have been studying the use of...more
The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that by 2025, the world will have 175 zettabytes of digital data—which, if stored on DVDs, would create a stack tall enough to circle the earth 222 times. As organizations...more
It’s an ever-present threat in our digital world: You get sued, and the case involves your software, website, and/or customer data. The first step in any filed or threatened litigation is to implement a litigation hold to...more
Boshea v. Compass Marketing, Inc., 2023 WL 2743333 (D. Md. Mar. 31, 2023)(Hollander, J.), involved authentication of disputed electronically stored information. “Authentication” is a necessary predicate to all uses of ESI:...more
By using our smartphones, tablets and computers, we create and exchange a vast amount of electronic data every day, but what some may not know is that there is a whole other world of information hidden beneath the surface —...more
Read these ediscovery collection best practices to learn why self-collection – or allowing clients to collect their own data – is dangerous. Picture this: it’s 1988 and you’re at your desk, poring over a veritable...more
NFT creators and consumers should evaluate the legal and commercial considerations of NFTs that are linked to copyright work. The Law Commission of England and Wales (the Commission) is a statutory independent body that...more
On November 2, 2022, Stacy Cline Amin, former Chief Counsel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), moderated the panel “Compliance and...more
Information governance (IG) has bever been needed more than in today’s workplace. It is clear that remote and hybrid workforce models are here to stay, and emerging technologies to support this way of working are creating...more
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan spoke at the opening of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Global Privacy Summit on April 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C. In her first public speech on privacy...more
Find out why creating a digital twin of your supply chain can build resiliency and optimize performance when extreme weather events occur....more
All across the legal industry digital transformation has been a notable talking point for what feels like an eternity. I’ve written extensively on the subject before. The ‘why’ of incorporating technology for corporate...more
Just as the distinction between an individual’s status as independent contractor versus employee can have serious ramifications for wage, tax, and other legal issues, the same can be true for claims relating to unfair...more
All initial public offerings (IPOs) must be paperless from July 5, 2021 and documents put on display by issuers to support listings and transactions must be made available online from October 4, 2021....more
I spent over 22 years in the FBI performing criminal cyber and forensics investigations. Many of these investigations led us to people who were innocent of the alleged crimes but who were guilty of unknowingly allowing...more