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Best Practices for Law Firms to Meet Cybersecurity Requirements of Inside Counsel
Whether or not your clients have suffered a data breach, cybersecurity is undoubtedly a critical concern. Many of your clients are actively searching for and plugging any gaps in their security. They may wisely be investing in pre-breach risk assessment services to identify data that is most vulnerable and valuable to thieves once they get inside, adding multiple layers of protection around it and establishing a concrete action plan to minimize any damages and exposure. And if your clients haven't done so already, they're going to focus their attention on what could potentially be an Achilles Heel for them ' their law firms.
In late 2013, while the world was still reeling from the magnitude of the Target and Neiman Marcus data breaches, McKenna, Long & Aldridge, a top-100 international law firm, was breached. It nearly escaped all notice by the media ' perhaps because it was only a law firm and not a giant, national retail chain, or because the thieves only made off with the W-2 and other financial information of the firm's past and present employees. But had the attackers persisted undetected, who knows what kinds of treasures they might have found? The firm is not alone: In 2011, Mandiant reported that at least 80 top firms had suffered breaches, and the American Bar Association's 2013 Technology Survey reported that 15.2% of all firms acknowledged that they had suffered a security breach.
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.
Judge Rules Shaquille O'Neal Will Face Securities Lawsuit for Promotion, Sale of NFTs
A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.
Removing Restrictive Covenants In New York
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?
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?
Blockchain Domains: New Developments for Brand Owners
Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.