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The Expanding Scope of Corporate Information Security Obligations
Protecting the security of corporate information and computer systems is becoming a major legal requirement for businesses. Driven by several recent highly publicized security breaches involving personal information, strong pressures are building for enhanced corporate obligations to implement appropriate information security measures to protect personal data and the people it describes.
Described by many as the 'perfect storm,' the latest chapter in the controversy began in mid-February 2005. At that time, ChoicePoint, Inc. disclosed that sensitive personal information it had collected on 145,000 individuals had been compromised, and was at risk of unauthorized use for purposes such as identity theft. In the 7 months that followed, more than 71 additional companies, educational institutions, banks, and federal and state government agencies (almost all household names) also disclosed security breaches involving sensitive personal information in their possession. Taken together, these breaches involved records on more than 50 million individuals. (For a chronology of these security breaches and a running total of the number of individuals affected, see Privacy Rights Clearinghouse at www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm.)
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
Protecting Innovation in the Cyber World from Patent Trolls
With trillions of dollars to keep watch over, the last thing we need is the distraction of costly litigation brought on by patent assertion entities (PAEs or "patent trolls"), companies that don't make any products but instead seek royalties by asserting their patents against those who do make products.