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DOJ Calls On Companies to Incorporate Data Analytics In Anti-Corruption Compliance Programs
This article explains the DOJ's recent emphasis on robust data analytics in anti-corruption compliance programs, outlines how data analytics can and should be used in these programs, and suggests an approach to help legal counsel and companies determine if corporate programs will pass muster with the DOJ.
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AI and Law Practice: A Roadmap for Success In Modern Legal Firms
This article lays out a general roadmap for success in modern legal firms through the strategic incorporation of AI technologies.
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Cryptocurrency Risk Is Not So Hidden
Cryptocurrency exchanges and law together are an evolving space. As regulation of cryptocurrency advances, and case law and practice develops, more certainty around who holds what in a cryptocurrency exchange failure will develop. In the meantime, knowing the risks, and mitigating the risks where possible, is the prudent course of action for the cryptocurrency investor and trader.
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Canada Leads In Crypto Regulations
FTX's collapse pushed Canada's already robust cryptocurrency regulations further, offering protection to consumers and stability for compliant platforms but resulting in some major global platforms quitting the country because they weren't willing to comply.
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National Cybersecurity Strategy: Potential Impacts to Consider
What are the impacts to civil society and government if the plan works? We should consider that "collecting intelligence, imposing economic costs, enforcing the law, and, conducting disruptive actions" will work by some measure, and if so, the impacts to the cybersecurity ecosystem could be profound.
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How Law Firms Can Avoid A Summer of Cyberattack Threats
Summer at law firms creates an attack surface of which hackers love to take advantage. Legal and support staff rotate through vacations and time off, new crops of interns unfamiliar with tech processes enter the fold, and the remaining employees are often burned out and too distracted to notice the critical signs of an impending cyberattack.
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One Overlooked Element of Executive Safety: Data Privacy
Executives have access to some of the company's most sensitive information, and they're increasingly being targeted by hackers looking to steal company secrets or to perpetrate cybercrimes.
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How Modern Law Firms Are Navigating Digital Transformation
A new report emphasizes the connection between legal technology and law firm success, the importance of training to ensure technology adoption, the influence of automation and document management on digital transformation, and how law firms are deploying data to create a competitive advantage.
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Potential Legal Pitfalls for Public Companies Due to SEC's New Cybersecurity Rules
Some 16 months after first proposing rules for public companies and investment advisors, the SEC adopted new rules, chief among them that public companies disclose material cybersecurity breaches to investors within four days.
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AI-Generated Content, Deepfakes and New Data Push the Limits of Civil Procedure
How will traditional tools and techniques need to adapt to handle new data challenges that have never been encountered by digital forensics specialists or lawyers?
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