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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Data Breaches on Track to Cost Companies $2.1 Trillion
As more corporate infrastructure moves online, new research suggests the rising number and impact of data breaches will cost $2.1 trillion globally by 2019, almost four times the estimated cost of breaches in 2015.
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In the Courts
In-depth analysis of a case involving potential criminal liability under the AKS.
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Business Crimes Hotline
A look at a key ruling of interest.
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Monitoring Employee Social Media Activity
Last year, the Pew Center released its demographic data on social media usage. The data revealed that ' regardless of age, race, sex, education or income ' nearly 75% of all adults in the United States who use the Internet use social media. The time is ripe to examine the pros, cons and pitfalls of monitoring employee social media postings from a legal perspective.
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Entertainment Law in Review, 2014-2015
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Cooperatives & Condominiums
Discussion of two recent rulings involving condominiums.
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Questions Every Leader Should Ask
Leaders in today's law firms are so caught up in managing their caseloads, achieving billable hour goals and putting out fires, they rarely stop to consider how well they are leading.
When Binding Loyalty Creates Loyalty Binds
Behavioral science research has found that children are best served when they have healthy, quality relationships with both parents. Children are poorly served when one parent interferes with the child's relationship with the other parent.
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Beware: Not All Communications Between Court-Appointed Bankruptcy Professionals Are Privileged
A successful Chapter 11 representation requires a close working relationship between the client's attorneys and non-attorney professionals, and the latter are generally kept fully abreast of the attorney's strategies on behalf of their common client. But where a communication otherwise protected by the attorney-client privilege is disclosed to, or made in the presence of a third party, the communication may no longer be, or deemed never to have been considered privileged.
Financial Services Lawyers Cheer Quicken Loans' Lawsuit
A legal challenge by Quicken Loans Inc. to the U.S. government's aggressive scrutiny of its FHA mortgage loans reflects widespread industry unease with government investigation of lenders, financial-services lawyers said.
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