Law.com Subscribers SAVE 30%

Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.

Features

What's the Deal with WhatsApp: Investigating and Discovering Mobile Device Data? Image

What's the Deal with WhatsApp: Investigating and Discovering Mobile Device Data?

Julian Sheppard & Michele C.S. Lange

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.

Features

Are 'Smart Contracts' Smart Enough? Image

Are 'Smart Contracts' Smart Enough?

Jonathan Bick

<b><i>Certain Legal Functions Can Be Automated with the Use of Blockchains</b></i><p>The automation of certain attorney functions has given rise to a new form of contracting, known as "smart contracts." Consequently, a decrease in the demand for certain attorney functions that can now be performed by Internet applications is matched by an increase in demand for legal advisers who can prepare smart contracts and ensure these smart contracts accurately reflect a desired business transaction.

Features

Permission to Post Image

Permission to Post

Spencer X Smith

You don't need a separate policy governing how your firm's staff will represent you on social media. You already have one.

Features

Technology That Filters Movie Content Infringes Studios' Copyrights Image

Technology That Filters Movie Content Infringes Studios' Copyrights

Todd Cunningham

"Star Wars is still Star Wars, even without Princess Leia's bikini scene," said federal Circuit Judge Andrew D. Hurwitz in denying an appeal by the movie-filtering service VidAngel to lift an injunction that has kept its technology off the market since December 2016.

Features

The Future Is Now: Global Litigation, Digital Workflows and Electronic Proceedings Image

The Future Is Now: Global Litigation, Digital Workflows and Electronic Proceedings

Charlie Harrel

Welcome to the new world of digital litigation, which is rapidly emerging in the context of an increasingly globalized world — a world where it is now commonplace for domestic law firms to extend their reach across international borders, engage in legal matters that span multiple jurisdictions, and collaborate with overseas colleagues and foreign counsel on a regular basis.

Features

Entertainment Industry: Take Note Of Surge in Trade Secrets Litigation Image

Entertainment Industry: Take Note Of Surge in Trade Secrets Litigation

Zach Warren

Intellectual property battles in technology, including in the entertainment industry, are nothing new, but their nature might be shifting. These days, many of the big IP litigation battles have nothing to do with patents, trademarks or copyrights. Instead, it's all about trade secrets.

Features

Dark Web Marketplace Takedowns Mitigate Legal's Cyberthreat, But Only So Much Image

Dark Web Marketplace Takedowns Mitigate Legal's Cyberthreat, But Only So Much

Rhys Dipshan

The recent takedown of dark Web marketplace AlphaBay represented a major success for law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and around the world. However, experts caution that its effect on mitigating the overall level of cyberthreat faced by corporations and law firms alike, while significant, will likely be temporary at best.

Features

Dark Web Marketplace Takedowns Mitigate Legal's Cyberthreat, But Only So Much Image

Dark Web Marketplace Takedowns Mitigate Legal's Cyberthreat, But Only So Much

Rhys Dipshan

The recent takedown of dark web marketplace AlphaBay represented a major success for law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and around the world. However, experts caution that its effect on mitigating the overall level of cyberthreat faced by corporations and law firms alike, while significant, will likely be temporary at best.

Features

Antitrust Corporate Dispositions Image

Antitrust Corporate Dispositions

Marc Siegel

This article provides critical background on DOJ policy and practice, and highlights some of the steps corporate counsel — as well as "spin-off" counsel for individual employees — can take during leniency or plea negotiations to secure non-prosecution protection for the company's employees as part of any antitrust corporate disposition.

Features

D.C. Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Case over Cyberattack, Finding Possible Harm in Data Loss Image

D.C. Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Case over Cyberattack, Finding Possible Harm in Data Loss

Amanda Bronstad

Calling for a broader view of standing, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has reversed the dismissal of a case brought over the 2014 cyberattack of health insurer CareFirst.

Need Help?

  1. Prefer an IP authenticated environment? Request a transition or call 800-756-8993.
  2. Need other assistance? email Customer Service or call 1-877-256-2472.

MOST POPULAR STORIES

  • The FTC Gets Into the College Athlete NIL Game
    As national champions are crowned in men's and women's basketball, hundreds of thousands of college athletes are entering the influencer marketplace for the first time and now find themselves attractive candidates in the fast growing influencer marketing arena. With influencer marketing potentially providing a 5x return on investment, many brands are eager to get into the industry, but it doesn't come without risks as the FTC Commissioner is taking a closer look at the use of influencers for marketing.
    Read More ›