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EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

[Webinar] Down the Rabbit Hole: Navigating IP Theft Investigations - May 29th, 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm ET

Step into Wonderland and ensure you’re equipped to handle intellectual property theft investigations by seeing the entire picture of what’s on employee’s devices — even deleted data. Take a Curious Stroll Through the...more

J.S. Held

Utilizing Digital Forensics Expertise in Intellectual Property, Copyright & Trade Secret Matters

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Need Assessment, Vetting, and Identification of a Reliable Expert in the Digital Forensics Process - Whether your organization is looking for advisory and expert support for an internal investigation into allegations of...more

Ankura

Authenticated E-Discovery: Utilizing Blockchain for Robust Security and Trust in Digital Evidence

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The digital age has transformed legal proceedings, making e-discovery a critical component of modern litigation and investigations. Maintaining the reliability and admissibility of digital evidence requires robust and...more

Purpose Legal

Proactive Steps for Protecting your Intellectual Property (IP) and Trade Secrets

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We live in an era in which information is a valuable commodity. Access to data, ideas, and trade secrets is in high demand, particularly for individuals or companies seeking to profit from this information. One way they gain...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Key AI Leaders of 2024: Huang, Amodei, Kurzweil, Altman, and Nobel Prize Winners – Hassabis and Hinton

Introduction - The year 2024 marked a pivotal time in artificial intelligence, where aspirations transformed into concrete achievements, cautions became more urgent, and the distinction between human and machine began to...more

Association of Certified E-Discovery...

Navigating Social Media Discovery and Generative AI in the OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation

Introduction - Each week on the Case of the Week I choose a recent decision in ediscovery and talk to you about the practical applications of that case and what you need to be thinking about as you conduct discovery of ESI....more

Cozen O'Connor

Should Personal Cell Phones be off the eDiscovery Radar? – Case Law Update

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The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas granted in part a plaintiff’s emergency motion for expedited discovery to allow forensic imaging of the defendant’s employees’ laptops to search for evidence of trade secret...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

3 Strategies for BYOD Risk Mitigation with Departing Employees

Companies continue to adopt Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies to save money and relieve employees of the “two-phone burden.” However, such policies come with clear risks. Companies must remain particularly concerned when...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Illumination Zone: Episode 127 | Ankura's Sean Evans sits down with Kaylee & Mary

Illumination Zone: Sean Evans, Managing Director for EDRM Trusted Partner, Ankura sits down with Kaylee and Mary to talk about his journey to eDiscovery and some tools and techniques for protecting IP and trade secrets when...more

Association of Certified E-Discovery...

[Webinar] How to Ensure Departing Employees Don't Turn Into Insider Threats - May 18th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT

Offboarding employees after they've resigned or been terminated is largely a routine process; they turn in their devices, which can then be imaged and archived. But are you routinely investigating their computer activity...more

Ankura

eDiscovery and Life Sciences Industry - Challenges and Solutions

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The life science industry is a significant contributor to the global market, with companies developing and manufacturing a wide range of medical products and devices. However, due to the complex and highly regulated processes...more

Oberheiden P.C.

How Blockchain Impacts the Legal Profession

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Below is an excerpt from Nick Oberheiden's latest book, "The Law of Tomorrow: Bitcoin, Tokens, Blockchain - An Introduction for Lawyers" Blockchain is the next technology that lawyers shouldn’t ignore. Mainstream acceptance...more

Mayer Brown

IP Pitfalls in Data Monetization Projects

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Join Mayer Brown partners Richard Assmus and Oliver Yaros as they discuss with host Julian Dibbell how to address the IP pitfalls in data monetization. Their discussion will focus on the unseen value of data, the difficulties...more

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[Webinar] Dealing with the Growing Risks of the ‘Shadow IT’ Environment - August 11th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm BST

The ever-expanding information technology environment is one of the biggest challenges for IT, e-discovery and digital forensics practitioners today. It takes just seconds for anyone to open a webpage and download a new tool...more

Payne & Fears

Five Policies to Help Avoid “Unforced Errors” By New Hires That May Lead To A Trade Secrets Misappropriation Claim

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Company new hires sometimes commit “unforced errors” when departing one company and joining another, leading to trade secrets disputes with the prior employer that could have been prevented by following basic rules and...more

HaystackID

[Webcast Transcript] From the Enterprise to Individuals: Are You Mitigating Departing Employee Risk?

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On December 3, 2020, HaystackID shared an educational webcast designed to inform and update legal and data discovery professionals on considerations and approaches that can help organizations proactively and reactively...more

Association of Certified E-Discovery...

Departing Employees, Data Theft, and Digital Forensics

In late 2019, it was reported by Infosecurity Magazine that 72% of former employees admitted taking company data with them upon departure. Determining what actions a former employee took on a company device leading up to...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Reexamining the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

As the digital landscape in the United States evolves, federal courts are reexamining federal cybersecurity laws enacted during an era before individuals, companies, and the government had easy access to computers and the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Conducting Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Investigations Remotely

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One of the first things a company should do when it suspects that its trade secrets have been compromised or that an employee has violated post-employment restrictive covenants is to conduct an investigation. ...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Chris Cornell’s Widow Sues Soundgarden for Copyrights to Unreleased Songs

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The widow of the late Soundgarden frontman, Chris Cornell, has sued the band, its members, and business managers for copyright ownership of unreleased sound recordings and withholding royalties. ...more

Epstein Becker & Green

New London Connecticut Superior Court Jury Awards $839,423 Verdict for Theft of U.S. Navy Underwater Drone Project Trade Secrets

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A New London Connecticut Superior Court jury awarded an $839,423 verdict in November 2019, involving theft of trade secrets for a $70 million U.S. Navy underwater drone project. This case, LBI, Inc. v. Sparks, et al.,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

3 Steps in Furtherance of Avoiding Devastating Spoliation Sanctions in Trade Secret Misappropriation Litigation

Preservation of electronically stored evidence (ESI) may be critical in trade secret cases. When a dispute revolves around whether a defendant accessed and/or transmitted the plaintiff’s trade secret material maintained in an...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Court Sanctions Defendant for Failure to Preserve Text Messages in Copyright Infringement Suit Brought by Prince’s Estate

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This is what it sounds like, when sanctions are granted. In March 2019, a federal judge in Minnesota sanctioned Defendants for their failure to preserve text messages in a copyright infringement suit brought in part by the...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

Fishing For ESI

When National Fish and Seafood’s (NFS) head of research left for a new opportunity at Tampa Bay Fisheries, she may not have taken just her talents to the competition. ...more

Akerman LLP - Marks, Works & Secrets

Discovery Sanctions Affirmed Despite Dwarfing Potential Value of Entire Case

In Klipsch v. ePRO, the Second Circuit affirmed discovery sanctions commensurate with the costs incurred by the moving party in addressing the sanctionable conduct ($2.68 million), as well as security for the sanctions,...more

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