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How Should Directors Respond to the SolarWinds Attack Image

How Should Directors Respond to the SolarWinds Attack

Paul A. Ferrillo

This article is not about "who did what wrong" or "what nation-state commenced this attack." It's really more about is, "if I am a Director, what should I be thinking about the SolarWinds attack?"

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The Situation of Your Company's CISO and How It Impacts Data Security Image

The Situation of Your Company's CISO and How It Impacts Data Security

Kenya Parrish-Dixon

The intensity of information security briefings often leads to organizations tucking the CISO under the CIO instead. After all, all technology is related, right? This is a huge mistake, and it is wreaking havoc on American data security.

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The Unheralded Value of a Contract Image

The Unheralded Value of a Contract

Andrew Banquer

The most important part of a contract is the data that it generates. If you take all that data from each contract, then aggregate, organize and analyze it, you will have critical insights into the overall effectiveness of your contracting process and the way you transact business.

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Should Your Clients' Involvement With Cryptocurrency Scare You? Image

Should Your Clients' Involvement With Cryptocurrency Scare You?

Ross Benson & Robert N. Driscoll

It's not a matter of whether you have an interest in crypto, think it's all a bizarre techno-bubble, the eventual replacement for fiat currency, or somewhere in between. The fact of the matter is your clients, and future clients, are more likely than ever to have a connection to this market, and a brief review of the headlines can make this prospect seem terrifying.

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The World of NFTs

Christine K. Au-Yeung

NFTs have been all the rage lately. So what exactly are they?

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Can You Hear Me Now? — Privacy of Discussions Image

Can You Hear Me Now? — Privacy of Discussions

Leonard Deutchman 

This article looks at privacy discussions, focusing on what in the circumstances discussed renders the IT data private and whether the criteria relied upon when courts and others in the discussion determine that the data is or is not private is truly determinative, as well as properly understood.

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How to Avoid 'Privacy Debt'

Catherine Zhu

For many tech companies today, their products and business model require the collection and storage of data. At the same time, a failure to build adequate data protection technology, processes, and operations will continuously generate "privacy debt" for the business. The accumulation of this "privacy debt" can eventually turn away customers, attract regulatory penalties, and create an existential risk for the company.

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Legal Tech: Time to Move from Email to Centralized Platform for E-Discovery Image

Legal Tech: Time to Move from Email to Centralized Platform for E-Discovery

Wendy Leibowitz

Lawyers need to move away from email as a project management tool to a centralized project management platform — akin to a huge, shared, digital whiteboard — where all production requests are entered on a form that meets litigation support needs.

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The Adoption of Legal Analytics

Karl Harris

The legal profession continues to embrace legal analytics and its advantages in increasing numbers every year. Now, the more interesting questions pertain to how legal professionals use legal analytics and what the likely path is for legal analytics in the future.

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Maintaining Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Protections over Forensic Reports in Light of 'Wengui v. Clark Hill' Image

Maintaining Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Protections over Forensic Reports in Light of 'Wengui v. Clark Hill'

Kim Peretti, Jon Knight, & Emily Poole

The Clark Hill opinion is notable because not only does it follow a string of recent opinions that have found data breach forensic reports not to be entitled to work product protection, it also goes one step further to find that a data breach forensic report is not protected by attorney-client privilege.

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