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Retiring Boomers Pose Big Challenges For Firms Image

Retiring Boomers Pose Big Challenges For Firms

Julie Triedman

The boomer generation — 75 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 — and a tiny cadre of over-70s Silent Generation lawyers currently make up just under half of partners at Am Law 200 firms. As partners with the greatest seniority, they constitute a majority in the equity and management ranks, and control an outsize share of client relationships. The impacts of retirement are amplified because a long surge in hiring and promotion that began when boomers entered law firms has halted since the financial crisis.

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Duty to Warn and Third-Party Conduct: A Look at Two Recent New York Cases

Jeffrey Lichtman & Richard A. Menchini

In the past year, New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals, issued two decisions addressing both the scope of a defendant's duty to warn in negligence and products liability actions, and the scope of tort liability in actions predicated upon third-party conduct.

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Managing Risk in Light of 'Shadow IT'

David Ray

Information Governance in the Age of Cloud Application Proliferation

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Law Firms, Meet Your New Regulator: Your Clients Image

Law Firms, Meet Your New Regulator: Your Clients

Mark Sangster

While major banks, retailers, hospitals and insurance companies were the brick and mortar of a growing media monument to hubris and cyber overconfidence, law firm breaches went mostly unnoticed. That is, until government agencies and law enforcement grew concerned that the wealth of intellectual property curated by law firms could be used to manipulate financial markets by front running trades.

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Client Document Security Audits: Is Your Law Firm Ready?

Alvin Tedjamulia

It is essential for all law firms to safeguard their clients' documents against ever-evolving threats and thoroughly understand the security challenges and potential solutions in today's demanding world of legal document compliance.

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Looking to the FFIEC Revised Information Security Booklet for Best Practices in Data Security for Financial Institutions

Craig Nazzaro

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) recently revised its Information Security Booklet. The changes bring the financial services industry closer to the goal of having a clearly defined set of cybersecurity and data protection protocols to ensure regulatory compliance.

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Optional Safety Equipment

Larry E. Coben

<b><i>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p><p>In last month's newsletter, the author began a discussion of the manufacturer practice of making increased safety features available to purchasers — but only for a price. The discussion concludes herein.

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Legal Tech: e-Discovery: Judge Says 'NO' to Party's Bid to Force Use of Predictive Coding Image

Legal Tech: e-Discovery: Judge Says 'NO' to Party's Bid to Force Use of Predictive Coding

By H. Christopher Boehning & Daniel J. Toal

Would Judge Peck's admiration and advocacy for predictive coding lead him, upon a request by the opposing party, to force a responding party to use it against that party's own wishes? Judge Peck recently faced this issue, putting potential use of predictive coding at odds with established precedent and procedure regarding how to conduct discovery.

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Movers & Shakers

ssalkin & Law Journal Newsletters

Movers &amp; Shakers&nbsp;Law firm Venable recently announced the addition of former AOL Inc. chief counsel, Charles D. Curran, as a partner in…

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Introducing the Cybersecurity Reference Model

Jared Coseglia

When EDRM and CSRM Collide, Much Is Illuminated About the Hiring Trends in Both e-Discovery and Cybersecurity

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