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Hybrid Work Environments Add to Internal Cybersecurity Risk

Rhys Dipshan

Are law firms truly prepared for evolving threats on the horizon, especially with hybrid work arrangements gaining momentum?

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9th Circuit: Police Violated Google Users' Privacy Rights After Automated Email Scan Detected Child Pornography Image

9th Circuit: Police Violated Google Users' Privacy Rights After Automated Email Scan Detected Child Pornography

Alaina Lancaster

A federal appeals court found that law enforcement violated a Google user's constitutional rights when it opened email attachments the platform flagged as child pornography through an automated system.

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Flat Fee or Consumption-Based E-Discovery Pricing? Depends on Who You Ask Image

Flat Fee or Consumption-Based E-Discovery Pricing? Depends on Who You Ask

Victoria Hudgins

Being charged per gigabyte by an e-discovery software platform isn't new, but it can still be a budgetary drain for law firms that handle many large e-discovery matters.

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Slut-Shamed In the Workplace? Avoiding Exposure for Your Employees' Exposure Image

Slut-Shamed In the Workplace? Avoiding Exposure for Your Employees' Exposure

John G. Browning

Situations involving an employee's voluntary online exposure rarely end well and can bring legal exposure for the employer.

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How to Address Evolving Privacy Regulations During Discovery Image

How to Address Evolving Privacy Regulations During Discovery

Gina Taranto

One Recipe for Success: Treat Private Data With the Same Priority Given to Privilege But for all the coverage that privacy regulations are meant to provide, there is precious little guidance about how to protect private information, and there is very little legal precedent to guide our practices.

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Artificial Intelligence and Subject Matter Eligibility In U.S. Patent Office Appeals Image

Artificial Intelligence and Subject Matter Eligibility In U.S. Patent Office Appeals

James W. Soong

For the foreseeable future, patent applications involving artificial intelligence technologies, including machine learning, will increase with the continued proliferation of such technologies. However, subject matter eligibility can be a significant challenge in securing patents on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Biometric Law Litigation Expands Beyond Social Media Image

Biometric Law Litigation Expands Beyond Social Media

Shari Claire Lewis

Social media has played an oversized role in lawsuits under state and local biometric privacy laws. Now, a New York City law that took effect in July is likely to significantly expand the range of biometric-related litigation beyond social media companies to a new group of defendants: retail stores, places of entertainment, and food and drink establishments.

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Emojis and E-Discovery Image

Emojis and E-Discovery

Philip Favro

Emojis are an important aspect of everyday communication in 2021. Given their ubiquity, there should be little surprise that emojis have become a key source of evidence in civil and criminal cases.

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Applying Scientific Method to E-Discovery Growth Image

Applying Scientific Method to E-Discovery Growth

Leonard Deutchman

This article discusses scientific method as it applies to the growth of e-discovery and its protocols.

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Tightening Antitrust Enforcement Could Be Boon for E-Discovery Image

Tightening Antitrust Enforcement Could Be Boon for E-Discovery

Victoria Hudgins

U.S. antitrust enforcement is tightening, and e-discovery practitioners and vendors in the M&A market are expecting an uptick in work. But the influx of complex discovery may drain resources for other corporate e-discovery matters.

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