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Attorneys Forecast Legal Challenges In NFTs
As nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, continue to grow in popularity through cryptocurrency purchase, sale and trade online, opportunities for entertainment attorneys in the emerging industry also are booming. For this article, attorneys shared how they're grabbing hold of NFT-related work and the challenges they foresee.
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Opportunities, Risks and Strategies In the Metaverse
While it is still unknown how the metaverse will take shape lawyers advising brands should familiarize themselves with the opportunities it presents, the risks involved, and strategies to consider for enhancing and protecting a client's brand.
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The Legal Difficulties of Blockchain Domain Names
Blockchain domain names, a new set of domain names, are ripe for cryptocurrency legal abuse and generally not susceptible to traditional legal amelioration. A combination of legal, business and technological approaches is best used to address blockchain domain name legal difficulties.
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Keep Terms of Service and Privacy Notices Separate
This article examines why terms of service and privacy notices should work in conjunction with one another, but also why it is not advisable to incorporate privacy notices into online terms of service.
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SEC Proposed Rules Include Disclosure of Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Strategy
Cybersecurity compliance, already an anxiety-inducing topic for many in-house counsel, is about to get even trickier. The SEC rolled out a host of proposed new cybersecurity rules for public companies.
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Legal Tech: Are Websites A Forgotten Source of Evidence?
It's fascinating how quickly the industry has shifted from the days when e-discovery teams would spend weeks digitalizing and coding vellum, microfiche and paper documents to where we are today with dynamic and varied processes to deal with a plethora of electronic sources. Among these are websites, which can provide deep insights in discovery, but have been largely forgotten as a source of evidence.
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Examining the Differences Between Data Privacy and Data Security
As businesses develop data protection frameworks to ensure compliance, it is important for companies to design a data protection program that contemplates data privacy and data security individually, to achieve the most comprehensive data protection program.
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Taming the Data Privacy Chaos in Contract Management
How contract management practitioners can remain in compliance with rapid changes in data privacy regulations.
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Cyber-Insecurity: Will the Looming Regulatory Crackdown on Cybersecurity Practices Help Protect Financial Institutions from Attack?
A slew of new regulations targeting the cybersecurity practices of financial institutions will come into effect during 2022. But will they have any real bearing on protecting financial firms from attack?
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Driving Innovation in a Dynamically Changing Legal Market
A series of interviews with large law firm partners around the world to better understand how they are leveraging technology to drive innovation and transformation in their practices.
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