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Law Firms Enter the Golden Age of Data Mining Image

Law Firms Enter the Golden Age of Data Mining

Doug Stansfield

As a matter of practice, law firms generate and store incomprehensible amounts of data. Most, if not all, of that data has been digitized and many firms that recognize the untapped value of their data have begun to leverage sophisticated technologies to mine it for reusable work product and valuable insights.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Fix Security Issues? Image

Can Artificial Intelligence Fix Security Issues?

Nina Cunningham

There is great enthusiasm about what AI can do to promote better living conditions, evoking wisdom, providing business intelligence through deep analysis of behavior and habits, by signaling trends and anticipating demand. But there are other considerations as well. A critical one is cybersecurity.

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How the Healthcare Industry Can Fight Rising Cyber-Attacks

Jason G. Weiss

The healthcare industry is facing an alarming proliferation of cyber perils. Why? Because our healthcare system is a "soft target," and particularly vulnerable because of its lifesaving work, where time is of the essence. It's a recipe for disaster from a cybersecurity standpoint.

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Cybersecurity Experts Needed in U.S.

Scott R. Malyk & Lin R. Walker

The Country Is In Dire Need of Experts Who Possess the Advanced Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required to Combat Cybersecurity Crimes In an effort to protect our financial, personal, medical, and otherwise confidential data, as well as our election systems, we need to continue to attract and employ the services of the most qualified cybersecurity experts from around the world. However, at present, there is a dire shortage of such qualified experts in the United States.

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Unique Cyber Risks Faced By the Cannabis Industry

Victoria Hudgins

All companies face cybersecurity threats, but the legalized cannabis industry's storage of personally identifiable information and reliance on seed-to-sale tracking software can place it firmly within hackers' crosshairs.

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Legal Tech: New Data Types Challenge E-Discovery to Keep Pace Image

Legal Tech: New Data Types Challenge E-Discovery to Keep Pace

Cliff Dutton

Expanding the Scope of Data Has the Potential to Slow Down Discovery and Increase Cost, But If New Data Types Contain Uniquely Dispositive Content, It Will Be Necessary to Include Them In Order to Achieve Just Determinations Data types evolve faster than law. New data types are expanding the scope of discoverable data. The variety, velocity and complexity of electronic evidence challenge legal processes and the technology-enabled legal applications that are designed to support them.

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Safeguarding Your Intellectual Property Image

Safeguarding Your Intellectual Property

Matthew Calcagno

The documents that a firm produces are its greatest asset, yet firms historically have not made sufficient efforts to safeguard those documents from both internal and external threats. Law firms have typically had an open-door approach to document access. This means that anyone in your firm can likely access any document at any time, leaving your firm's intellectual property entirely unprotected.

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What Is the Appropriate Statute of Limitations Period for BIPA Claims? Image

What Is the Appropriate Statute of Limitations Period for BIPA Claims?

Sean Wieber, Patrick O'Meara & Eric Shinabarger

The BIPA compliance lag has led companies using or collecting biometric information to consider how far back their liability may extend. The Illinois General Assembly, however, did not include an explicit statute of limitations period in BIPA. As a result, the statute of limitations has become one of BIPA's primary battlegrounds as litigants argue about potential class sizes and damages awards.

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The California Consumer Privacy Act: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask — 100 Days Out Image

The California Consumer Privacy Act: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask — 100 Days Out

Alan L. Friel

Part Two of a Two-Part Article Part One of this article, last issue, covered how the CCPA applies to businesses — both in and outside California, the revenue threshold, proposed amendments and other open issues. Part Two continues with the rights that CCPA grants to Californians, the CCPA's impact on company privacy policies, how other states' privacy laws compare to the CCPA, exceptions and penalties for violating the Act.

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As Hackers Get Smarter, Can Law Firms Keep Up? Image

As Hackers Get Smarter, Can Law Firms Keep Up?

Christine Simmons & Xiumei Dong

"It's Not the Hardware You Worry About, It's the Mistake That Someone Makes That Inadvertently Gives a Bad Actor Access." The legal industry has poured significant resources into cybersecurity, leading to huge leaps in progress in the last decade. But there are areas where large and small law firms can do much better in preventing and reacting to data breaches, and the legal sector may risk falling behind other industries. That's partly because hackers are learning how to circumvent law firm security systems, leading to a continuous game of cat and mouse.

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