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Finally Finishing Unfinished Business?
April 01, 2018
<i><b>How the Recent </i> Heller Ehrman <i>Case Impacts Lawyer Mobility and Clients Choice of Counsel</i></b><p>The law of unfinished business, as applied to cases billed on an hourly basis, has been the subject of much commentary and case law. In <i>Heller Ehrman</i>, the high California court, like the New York Court of Appeals, found that a dissolved law firm did not have a property interest in hourly matters for work performed after dissolution. The case is worth exploring as it impacts, among other things, lawyer mobility and clients choice of counsel.
Who Owns e-Discovery's Largest Companies?
April 01, 2018
A rundown of the owners of 14 large e-discovery companies. Here's a hint: A whole lot of private equity.
<i>Online Extra:</i> Catalyst Acquires TotalDiscovery
April 01, 2018
The deal will primarily be used to expand Catalyst's core offering to offer an integrated program, Insight Discovery, that spans the EDRM.
<i>Online Extra</i>: Equifax's Liabilities Pile on After Discovery of New Compromised Data
March 07, 2018
After discovering that 2.4 million of its customers had partial driver's license information stolen, Equifax will likely face renewed questions over the handling of its post-breach internal investigation.
Benchmarking Cybersecurity: CISOs and Security Leaders Share Perspectives on Managing Evolving Global Risks
March 01, 2018
30 security professionals are interviewed in a collective conversation about the cross-functional solutions they are applying to today's most complex challenges and the creative ways they are adapting to a perilous threat landscape.
Law Firm Security Goes Back to School
March 01, 2018
Armed with technical and regulatory weapons for preventing cyber crimes, law firms must administer policies to protect client data and use the systems and services held standard by industries like medicine and banking. No one knows when disruption will take place. New methods of adverse action force executives to make more choices and decisions. All departments must merge their vigilance and join with IT services as IT takes center stage in order to stay prepared.
How Law Firms and Legal Departments Can Protect Against Meltdown and Spectre
March 01, 2018
In January, news of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities rocked the cybersecurity world. And even a few months later, the news is still reverberating, due to several patches that are significantly slowing down device and system performance. To learn more about these vulnerabilities and how law firms and legal departments can protect against them now and in in the future, I sat down with Dana Simberkoff, Chief Risk, Privacy and Information Security Officer at AvePoint.
Court of Appeals Reaffirms that Deference Is Alive and Well When It Comes to Substantive Requirements of SEQRA EISs
March 01, 2018
The New York Court of Appeals has long established that an agency's assessment of environmental impacts pursuant to the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act, or SEQRA, is entitled to substantial deference, admonishing lower courts that it is not their role to substitute their judgment for the judgment of agencies undertaking the action. Sometimes, however, lower courts give lip service to the deferential standard of review but fail to apply it.
China's Cybersecurity Law Isn't Just About Cybersecurity
March 01, 2018
The law — which includes data localization mandates, cybersecurity best practices, and data transfer restrictions — has similarities to other cyber laws such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But in this case, it's also being used to police internet content and behavior.
New Federal Tax Act Gives New Life, and Twists, to Treatment of Film, TV and Stage Productions
March 01, 2018
Section 181 of the IRC has provided benefits to both producers of movies and television programs and — under pass-through legal structures such as limited liability companies — to their investors. Now, with the enactment of the sweeping new federal tax law, §181 has been given new life, with a couple of additional benefits and a couple of additional twists.

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