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<b><i>BREAKING NEWS</i></b><br>Michelle Lee Resigns as PTO Director Image

<b><i>BREAKING NEWS</i></b><br>Michelle Lee Resigns as PTO Director

Scott Graham

Michelle Lee resigned as director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on May 6.

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Layered Federal and State Cybersecurity Regulation of Financial Services Firms

Brian Neil Hoffman, Romaine Marshall & Matt Sorensen

Cybercrime poses an ever-increasing threat to consumers of financial products and services. In 2016, the then- SEC Chair said that cybercrime ranks as “one of the greatest risks facing the financial services industry.” Federal law thus requires financial services firms to implement procedures designed to protect their customers' data. Now individual states are increasingly getting into the game.

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New Research: Employee Privacy and Corporate Legal Risk

David Horrigan

The use of business email accounts and digital devices for personal communications can be risky for both employers and employees. However, employees of all levels may be commingling corporate communications with their personal information, according to new research.

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Will Ransomware Attack Make Law Firms 'WannaCry'?

Roy Strom

Employees the world over were locked out of their computers on May 12 and over that following weekend as an insidious and widespread cyberattack nicknamed "WannaCry" rolled through the Internet and into headlines. Luckily for U.S. law firms, experts said it was unlikely that this particular ransomware attack hit many of them. However, they fear aftershocks.

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State of the Industry: E-Discovery and Cybersecurity

Jared Coseglia

<b><i>The Future State of the E-Discovery Job Market Will Be Cloud and Contract Staffing</b></i><p><b><i>Part Three of a Three-Part Article</b></i><p>If the history of e-discovery is the future of cybersecurity, then what should one expect for the future of e-discovery? How long will the current period of consolidation continue? What will be the next chapter in e-discovery's never-ending reinvention? How closely will the next 10 years of cybersecurity job trends mirror e-discovery's past?

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Ransomware: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Mark Sangster

Ransomware has quickly emerged as a billion dollar industry and shows no sign of slowing down. So why is ransomware the ubiquitous nuisance it is? Simple: It works. Over 70% of companies pay the ransom.

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How Analytics Is Shaping the Current and Future Practice of Law

Jeff Pfeifer

Anyone following the news headlines of late is aware that artificial intelligence (AI) is being heralded as the technology that will transform industries far and wide — including the legal profession. Here we will briefly consider three areas or "maturity levels" of analytics — descriptive, predictive and prescriptive — and look at their role in revolutionizing the practice of law today.

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Patient Safety Work Product and Its Limitations: A Discussion of Two Recent Cases Image

Patient Safety Work Product and Its Limitations: A Discussion of Two Recent Cases

Michael Petruccelli & Steven Osher

In the context of medical malpractice litigation, it is important for lawyers representing the injured patient and health care providers to understand the overall purpose of the Healthcare Quality and Improvement Act, as well as its limitations as far as patient safety work product is concerned.

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Uncertainty in China-Hollywood Entertainment Financing Relationships, But Hope Remains

Todd Cunningham

Uncertainty and the drumbeat of a possible trade war are ominous clouds currently hanging over relations with Chinese investors, several of Hollywood's top deal-making attorneys say.

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Searching for Web Crawling's Legal Boundaries

Joshua L. Simmons

Web pages are a treasure-trove of useful information for companies that are able to capture it using Web crawling (or scraping) technology. Yet, for over 20 years, courts have struggled to draw the line between the usefulness of such information and the rights of the content owners and website operators from which that content is derived. Once a niche issue, the increased use of this technology has compounded the disputes related to it.

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