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Poll: Corporate Executives Worried About New Lease Accounting Compliance

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According to a recent Deloitte poll, nearly half the responding top-level corporate executives are worried about their companies' ability to comply with the upcoming lease accounting changes in a timely manner.

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When Will Disruption Hit the Legal Industry?

Hugh A. Simons & Nicholas Bruch

Economics tells us an industry that experiences a drop in aggregate demand, adds production capacity, and increases the market overlap among competitors will suffer price erosion and profitability decline. Law firms fit this profile. Yet, in talking with law firm partners, you don't get the sense that any such "disruption" is happening. Perhaps economics has bypassed law?

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Forensic Mythologies and Custody Evaluations

Jeffrey P. Wittmann

<b><I>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</I></b><p>Last month, we looked at several commonly held beliefs about forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who conduct custody evaluations for the courts. Many of them are not necessarily true. We conclude this discussion herein.

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A Dragonfly in the Ointment: Cyber Attacks on the Energy Sector May Signal Dark Days Ahead Image

A Dragonfly in the Ointment: Cyber Attacks on the Energy Sector May Signal Dark Days Ahead

Michael Bahar, Trevor Satnick & Mark Thibodeaux

Recent attacks may not yet have resulted in damages or disruption, but the group appears to be positioning itself to learn how the targeted energy facilities operate while attempting to gain access to operational control systems, if they have not done so already.

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Federal Judge Rules on the Overtime Salary Rule

Tim K. Garrett

Judge Mazzant issued a final ruling striking down the overtime rule. The Texas Federal Judge used essentially the same reasoning on which he based his temporary injunction ruling. In light of this final decision, the appeal of his temporary injunction likely becomes moot.

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Vendor Contracting for Privacy and Security

Chuck Kunz & Ian McCauley

In an effort to continue to capture ongoing and new business, vendors may be opening themselves up to liability due to poorly drafted contracts with companies. In addition, in a rush by companies to have data shifted to the cloud, privacy concerns may be dangerously minimized.

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What's the Deal with WhatsApp?

Julian Sheppard & Michele C.S. Lange

<b><i>Investigating and Discovering Mobile Device Data</b></i><p>Analyzing data from mobile devices is still uncharted territory for many in Legal and IT. Accordingly, today's modern legal and technology professionals need to brush-up on all things mobile. This includes understanding where applicable data resides in a mobile device and what common challenges are associated with accessing, preserving and extracting this data. One such app taking the mobile device world by storm is WhatsApp.

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Industry Vendors Exploited Via Industry-Wide Cyber Attacks

Mark Sangster

<b><i>How to Protect Your Firm from Vendor Risks</b></i><p>The legal industry is still lulled into a false sense of security, mistakenly assuming that they are immune to a significant IT business outage, and that those unfortunate firms affected by cybercriminals were somehow lacking in adequate cybersecurity presages. That's simply not true. Even Achilles had a weak spot.

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Podcast: Implantable Microchips

Jason Thomas

Next in a series of podcasts looking at the cybersecurity and tech world.

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