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Fishman Haygood LLP

ABA Issues Formal Guidance for Use of Generative AI: An Update to Ethical Rules for Using Generative AI in Your Practice

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As the “AI Revolution” continues to gain momentum, questions concerning professional ethics have arisen across almost all professions. For legal services providers in particular, this disruptive technology poses both risks...more

Payne & Fears

Will You Accept Bitcoin? Ethical Challenges for Attorneys

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The proper use of social media, blogging, cloud computing, and crowdfunding are just a few of the ever-growing tech-related issues that have ethical implications for attorneys. We must add to the list the cryptocurrency...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Immediate Strategies for Responding to the #MeToo Movement and Harassment in the Workplace

As a result of troubling personal accounts of sexual harassment that have permeated coverage on national media outlets and our social media accounts during the past few months, employers may appropriately question whether...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

Pooley’s Corner: How to Recruit and Hire While Avoiding Data Contamination

When we think about trade secrets, we usually focus on keeping our own data safe. But an even bigger risk comes from hiring employees who can infect our systems with confidential information from a competitor. Companies often...more

Polsinelli

Assessing New Risks in Letters of Intent - Delaware Supreme Court Creates Increased Exposure by Recognizing a Duty to Negotiate in...

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Prior to entering into a definitive commercial agreement, parties often enter into a letter of intent, a term sheet or a memorandum of understanding (a preliminary agreement). Some of the provisions in the preliminary...more

NAVEX

Top Ten Ethics & Compliance Predictions & Recommendations for 2016

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To help with our predictions and recommendations, we’ve talked with industry experts, our colleagues at NAVEX Global, and ethics and compliance professionals from our more than 12,500 client organizations. Based on their...more

Zelle  LLP

What GCs Need to Know About HR Technology

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Imagine that your General Counsel asks you for a very brief overview of what she needs to know - and worry about - related to HR technology and HR data management. If your GC is like most we know, she has way too much on her...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Cybersecurity and Data Breaches: How In-House Counsel Can Engage the Board

A company's board of directors has a duty to oversee all aspects of the company's risk management efforts. This includes a duty to recognize and minimize the company's exposure to cyber attacks. In today's increasingly...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Star Wars Week Part I – How do You Evaluate a Risk Assessment?

Today I begin a series of Star Wars themed blog posts to celebrate the upcoming release of the next entry in the Star Wars franchise, Episode VII – The Force Awakens. Please note that I will only use the first three movies,...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

7 Tips for Conducting Effective Cybersecurity Due Diligence in M&A Transactions

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1. Start Early - Buyers should begin conducting cybersecurity risk assessments early in the engagement process. The target should be able to identify which information technology systems and data sets are key to the...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Lessons Learned from Target’s Data Breach Discovery Win - Five Strategies for Maintaining Privilege in the Aftermath of a Data...

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A thousand questions immediately flood any lawyer’s mind when they first hear that their client may have been affected by a data breach. How did it happen? What data were affected? Was there any personal information affected,...more

JAMS

How Likely Am I to Win? Risk, Uncertainty & the Turkey Illusion

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When parties are faced with an attractive settlement offer, they frequently wish to compare the offer to what they might get at trial, which is the product of the odds of winning times the value of the verdict or award....more

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At Will? What’s That?

Did you know that employees in most countries outside the United States have a contractual right to continued employment, whether or not they have written contract? If an employer does not provide an employee with a written...more

JD Supra Perspectives

Hacking Your Health: For Healthcare Providers, Risk Analysis Must Be Ongoing

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Healthcare providers would be wise to keep in mind that if a patient is harmed by a hacked medical device, Exhibit A in the negligence suit against them may be that provider’s risk analysis, or lack thereof....more

McGuireWoods LLP

What You Need to Know About .Sucks Domain Names

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Over the past two years, more than 500 new top-level domains (TLDs, or the words to the right of the dot in a domain name, such as .com or .edu) like .attorney, .consulting, .menu, and even .rocks have launched. But none has...more

BakerHostetler

A Deeper Dive: Risk Assessments Are a Necessary Step in Creating Layered Cyber Defenses

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Tens of thousands of cyber attackers employed by Chinese People’s Liberation Army and other employees and contractors of the Chinese Ministry of State Security work diligently every day to steal information from U.S....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Blue Pill/Red Pill: How Officers and Board Members Can Swallow the Red Pill and See the Real World of Cybersecurity

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Trying to understand how a hacker thinks can twist your brain around – while you normally think about how to make something work or why something is not working, hackers think how to get something to work in ways that it is...more

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