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Workshare Does Its Share to Secure Your Documents
Although most law firms use massive deployments of traditional security solutions to lock down their office systems, networks, and all of their stored content, most of them still struggle with the massive loads of shared electronic documents that flood their corporate network, the Internet, the e-mail system and all of their portable storage devices.
Within most of the e-mails also containing about 30% attachments, clearly documents are the new high-risk carrier in the plague of privacy, as well as financial and intellectual property leaks. We have seen (very recently) loads of damaging document leaks in the public spotlight, wherein corporate and legal counsels (and even CEOs) have been embarrassed right out of existence.
Many law firms have been given a false sense of security with the rise of documents converting into Adobe PDF format. Publishing, they find, is NOT the same as protecting the document. PDFs continue to leak damaging information to outside sources, and Adobe itself has, in the recent past, issued a few security alerts describing 'highly critical' flaws found in the product by many professionals in the security business. The Pentagon itself has been embarrassed by issuing a Web site report associated with the killing of an Italian Secret Service agent in Iraq, while a few hours after reading the item, readers had the ability to read all of the redacted ' TOP SECRET ' information that revealed confidential U.S. tactics and names in the Adobe PDF document just by using a cut and paste technique.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
The Stranger to the Deed Rule
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.