While inflated expectations abound, the advertising industry is emerging as one of the more immediate, substantive and compelling use cases for blockchain technology.
- March 01, 2019Laura Jehl, Robert Musiala, Linda Goldstein, Fernando Bohorquez and Amy Mudge
Like poorly-behaved school children, new technologies and intellectual property (IP) are increasingly disrupting the M&A establishment. Cybersecurity has become the latest disruptive newcomer to the M&A party.
March 01, 2019Thomas McThenia and Richard MarkowTechnologies are often pitched as solutions, if not game-changing solutions. Indeed, many times they are, but no solution comes without the seeds of its own costs and challenges. For pragmatic and regulatory compliance reasons, it is increasingly important for boards, senior executives and general counsel to sufficiently understand technologies, not just their potential promise.
March 01, 2019Michael Bahar and Kristen BertchThe social, economic, and political forces pushing for a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's privacy regime are numerous, and many see 2019 as presenting the best opportunity yet for passage of federal data privacy legislation.
March 01, 2019Jeffrey AtteberryCybersecurity Practices Must “Be Appropriately Tailored to the Entity. It Should Be Risk-Based, Based on Risk to Your Organization.”
The recently released FINRA report provides guidance for broker-dealer firms of various sizes on how they can mitigate the risks of cyberattacks and data theft by other means.
March 01, 2019MP McQueenAs a practice, e-discovery involves professionals from a variety of disciplines. For this case law review, we spoke with professionals who play different roles in the e-discovery process to identify three case law rulings from 2018 that stood out in the impact they have on how e-discovery is practiced today.
March 01, 2019Mike HamiltonIn 2019, regulations and laws will continue to define how businesses collect and use consumer data, and their obligations to protect this data from misuse, theft or exposure to unauthorized parties.
February 01, 2019Mark SangsterDemonstrating that a data breach has resulted in an injury-in-fact can be difficult, because it is not always clear what has happened or will happen with the stolen data.
February 01, 2019Brian Ellman and Jee-Yeon LehmannThis article discusses the importance of securing a safe harbor for court records through reviewing an illustrative example of how a European Union (EU) citizen was able to force U.S. legal technology companies to remove and alter court records using GDPR.
February 01, 2019Jeff CoxIn-house legal operations chiefs see their main priorities as managing legal technology and cost-cutting, primarily on outside counsel spending. Blockchain remains a confusing concept to them, while artificial intelligence is the hottest topic of conversation.
February 01, 2019Sue Reisinger











