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The Perfect Storm: Why Contract Hiring In Privacy Will Eclipse Direct Hiring In 2024 Image

The Perfect Storm: Why Contract Hiring In Privacy Will Eclipse Direct Hiring In 2024

Jared Coseglia

With significantly fewer fully remote positions available in 2023, active job seekers were faced with the question of whether to begin considering compromises on work-from-home flexibility or compromise in other areas like compensation, vertical mobility, quality of life, or employment modality.

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Lessons for CISOs from the SolarWinds Breach and SEC Enforcement Image

Lessons for CISOs from the SolarWinds Breach and SEC Enforcement

Daniel Garrie, David Cass & Jennifer Deutsch

In an era where digital threats loom large, the responsibilities of Chief Information Security Officers have expanded beyond traditional IT security to encompass a broader governance, risk management, and compliance role. The infamous SolarWinds Corp. attack illustrates the complex cybersecurity landscape CISOs navigate.

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Shielding Law Practices: Mitigating Vendor Risks to Safeguard Client Confidentiality Image

Shielding Law Practices: Mitigating Vendor Risks to Safeguard Client Confidentiality

Brad Hibbert

Because vendors often access clients' internal systems, customer data, and intellectual property, they will always be a magnet for hackers searching for valuable data. Bad actors will always look for the weak spots in a firm's defenses, including those deployed by a firm's vendors and other third parties. And signs point to a growing number of cyberattacks, not a lessening of them.

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A Roadmap for Implementing Information Governance In Law Firms

Gregg Parker

In today's digital age, the volume of data generated and managed by law firms has skyrocketed, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Unfortunately, in parallel with this exponential growth in data, and partially as a direct result of it, law firms have also experienced a significant increase in targeted cyberattacks.

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Navigating Custody and Control: Ownership of Smartphone Data and Enforcement of Usage Policies Image

Navigating Custody and Control: Ownership of Smartphone Data and Enforcement of Usage Policies

Matthew Rasmussen

New regulations from the DOJ around the ownership and governance of company data on personal devices are catching up to the way the world actually works. It's going to make companies' lives a lot harder — and for precisely the same reason that smartphones have made their lives a lot easier.

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Is Genetic Information the Next Privacy Battleground? Image

Is Genetic Information the Next Privacy Battleground?

Jeffrey N. Rosenthal & Amanda M. Noonan

GIPA litigation remains in its early stages, but the possibility of exorbitant statutory damages could make GIPA the next major trend in privacy class action litigation.

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New Federal Privacy Legislation Has Legitimate Shot At Passing

Maria Dinzeo

For years, the business community has been calling for a comprehensive federal privacy law, frustrated with operating under a patchwork of sometimes-conflicting state laws. Now, Congress is considering one that's extremely wide-ranging and that observers say has a legitimate chance of passage.

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Unbiased Thinking: A Blueprint for Your Law Firm Billing & Collections Transformation Image

Unbiased Thinking: A Blueprint for Your Law Firm Billing & Collections Transformation

Dan Safran

Law firms generally experience a similar set of common challenges and costs tied to inefficient billing and collections practices. This is a cost no firm can afford; and to that end, this article offers a blueprint for transforming billing and collections

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Early Impact of the CHIPS Act Image

Early Impact of the CHIPS Act

Reid Knabe & Bita Rahebi

This article describes certain key developments in the period from passage of the CHIPS Act through the present day, and provides a brief survey of key grantmaking and investment activity by U.S. government agencies since passage of the Act.

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Delaware District Court Could Guide Supreme Court Purdue Pharma Decision Image

Delaware District Court Could Guide Supreme Court Purdue Pharma Decision

Michael L. Cook

A bankruptcy court properly held that derivative claims based on "piercing the corporate veil theory of liability [were] released under" a confirmed reorganization plan, but that direct "claims for negligent undertaking" were not released and "could be asserted" in state court against the debtors' equity sponsors.

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