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In a Year of the Great Resignation, Corporations Need to Prepare for the Great Investigation
Even before this Great Resignation movement, corporations across the globe were reporting increases in suspicious activity, data leakage, IP theft and other data risks stemming from departing employees and remote workers. And now, with more employees having exited and the Great Resignation seeming to accelerate further, existing data and risk implications are likely to be compounded.
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How Law Firms Can Gain a Competitive Advantage with Financial Intelligence
Results of the new "Implementing Financial Intelligence to Give Law Firms a Competitive Advantage in 2022 and Beyond" report revealed a striking shift in the role of law firm finance leaders, both in their value and impact. Many are using data to drive change in their organizations, amplifying the power of profitability, and leveraging their skill to fuel innovation.
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Legal Issues Around Tangible Asset NFTs
When a NFT is transferred to another, both the NFT and its copyright are automatically transferred. However, the intellectual property rights associated with the underlying asset may not necessarily be automatically transferred, unless stated otherwise.
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What You Need to Know About China's New Privacy Law
The Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (PIPL) went into effect on Nov. 1 and brought with it a suite of new requirements and lingering questions.
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Growth of Cyber Attacks Leading Insurers to Drop the Unprepared
Securing cyber insurance is becoming more difficult. Law firms are facing insurance carriers that are placing a heavier emphasis on proactive cybersecurity measures, dropping clients, and even exiting the cyber insurance space when the risk outweighs the premium.
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Fraud Cases Increase In Cryptocurrency 'Wild West'
When something goes wrong with an investment in cryptocurrency and fraud victims seek legal help, disputes often turn out to be a major challenge for plaintiffs and law firms.
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Legal Tech: The Evaporation of E-Discovery
The thinking in the legal world regarding e-discovery has so changed that, as with many other ideas and tools that were once novel, those ideas lost their novelty as those in the legal community became comfortable with them and thought of them as simply different ways of articulating ideas and tools long used in the legal world.
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The Pandemic Job Market, Part 2: From Pandemonium to Institutional Recalibration
The second part of our analysis of complexities of staffing in a post-pandemic job market in the data privacy, cybersecurity, and e-discovery/legal technology verticals covers all the hiring trends in Q3 2021 as well as what is coming in Q4 and beyond.
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The Anatomy of a Cyberattack: Step-by-Step
This article looks at each stage of a cyberattack, by way of a fictitious attack that took over a real estate agent's email account.
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Cybersecurity Awareness Must Extend Beyond the 'Month'
For all of that is created and consumed during October's Cybersecurity Month, it is disappointing to see how each year after all the thoughts have been shared, major security incidents continue to emerge. We need to begin to take stock of all the advice given during this month and put it to immediate practice.
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