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Regulators Are Catching Up to Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology within the Financial Services Industry Image

Regulators Are Catching Up to Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology within the Financial Services Industry

Craig Nazzaro, Brad Rustin & John Jennings

<b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p>As we head into 2018, cryptocurrency and blockchain will continue to be a top initiative for pioneers in the financial services industry. As with any innovation within the financial services industry, the regulators are never far behind and are doing their best to keep up. Those that enter this space will find that they also have to pioneer the controls to manage the regulatory risks this technology presents.

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Five Smart Steps to Prepare for GDPR Data Subject Rights Image

Five Smart Steps to Prepare for GDPR Data Subject Rights

Sonia Cheng, Eckhard Herych, & Richard MacDonald

Many corporations around the globe are preparing for May 2018, when Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement kicks in. The regulation encompasses a wide range of nuanced privacy requirements that can be challenging to operationalize. In particular, requirements around the rights of European data subjects — which include the right to be forgotten and rights to access, rectification and objection to processing — will be some of the most difficult to address.

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Artificial Intelligence: Knowing When It's Right for Your Firm Image

Artificial Intelligence: Knowing When It's Right for Your Firm

Arup Das

Gone are the days when being the best lawyer was enough to guarantee landing and retaining clients. Clients are demanding that firms incorporate automation and increase their efficiency. Clients are relying on automation to streamline the work they outsource, and they expect their law firms to follow suit. To this end and to remain competitive, law firms need to offer their clients innovative solutions and build artificial intelligence (AI) into the core fabric of their practices.

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NY AG Proposes Stricter Data Security Laws Citing Equifax Breach Image

NY AG Proposes Stricter Data Security Laws Citing Equifax Breach

Josefa Velasquez

Following the Equifax Inc. breach that compromised personal information of 145.5 million Americans including more than 8 million New Yorkers, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is proposing comprehensive legislation to tighten data security laws

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Data Integrity and Incident Response Image

Data Integrity and Incident Response

Benjamin Dynkin, Barry Dynkin & E.J. Hilbert

The skill required to successfully exfiltrate 143 million records is certainly sufficient to successfully attack the integrity of that very same data. It is generally accepted that cyber criminals have not performed integrity attacks because there is a minimal profit motive: Records have a black-market value; in integrity attacks, there is no deliverable that can be sold. This paradigm may be shifting.

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Uber In-House Attorney Out Behind Massive Cyberattack That Went Undisclosed Image

Uber In-House Attorney Out Behind Massive Cyberattack That Went Undisclosed

Stephanie Forshee & Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

<b><i>The Company Failed to Notify 57 Million Users of a Breach In October 2016. Two Employees Tasked with Handling the Response Process Have Left the Company, Including Uber In-House Attorney Craig Clark, Who Reported to the Company's Chief Security Officer.</b></i><p>Uber Technologies Inc. failed to notify 57 million users that their data was exposed in a breach, according to a company blog post published on November 21, which was confirmed by a source close to the matter.

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<b><i>Legal Tech</b></i><br>Circumstantial Evidence vs. Speculation: What Warrants e-Discovery Sanctions Image

<b><i>Legal Tech</b></i><br>Circumstantial Evidence vs. Speculation: What Warrants e-Discovery Sanctions

Mike Hamilton

In today's political climate, it has almost become "normal" that people frivolously make speculative statements without any proof that the statement is true. While this may be standard practice in the political world, in court this practice will not be convincing to any judge, especially when making an argument for e-discovery sanctions based on new rule FRCP 37(e).

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The Case for Use of Accelerated Case Resolution in TTAB Proceedings Image

The Case for Use of Accelerated Case Resolution in TTAB Proceedings

Chris Bussert & Harris Henderson

This article outlines the available options under the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's ACR rules and discusses the strategic considerations in determining whether ACR might be advantageous, particularly in light of increasing pressure from clients to reduce costs and expedite the decision-making process.

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Five Smart Steps to Prepare for GDPR Data Subject Rights Image

Five Smart Steps to Prepare for GDPR Data Subject Rights

Sonia Cheng, Eckhard Herych & Richard MacDonald

Many corporations around the globe are preparing for May 2018, when Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement kicks in. The regulation encompasses a wide range of nuanced privacy requirements that can be challenging to operationalize. In particular, requirements around the rights of European data subjects — which include the right to be forgotten and rights to access, rectification and objection to processing — will be some of the most difficult to address.

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<i>Zeran v. AOL</i> and Its Inconsistent Legacy Image

<i>Zeran v. AOL</i> and Its Inconsistent Legacy

Ian C. Ballon

<i><b>How the Seminal Fourth Circuit's Ruling Is Applied in Different Circuits</b></i><p>The rule of <i>Zeran</i> has been uniformly applied by every federal circuit court to consider it and by numerous state courts. And it has never been rejected in any precedential opinion. Indeed, it is perhaps a fitting tribute to the viability of <i>Zeran</i> that 20 year later the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in its 12th opinion construing the CDA, barely spent even a sentence affirming dismissal of a defamation claim brought against Facebook over user content, pursuant to the CDA and the rule first developed in <i>Zeran</i>.

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