Law.com Subscribers SAVE 30%

Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.

Home Topics

Technology Media and Telecom

Features

<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br>Financial Industry Groups Slam NY's Proposed Cybersecurity Rules Image

<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br>Financial Industry Groups Slam NY's Proposed Cybersecurity Rules

Joel Stashenko

Major banking and insurance industry groups are attacking New York's proposed regulation requiring member companies to adopt stringent protections against cyberattacks that compromise consumers' confidential information.

Features

Managing Risk in Light of 'Shadow IT' Image

Managing Risk in Light of 'Shadow IT'

David Ray

Information Governance in the Age of Cloud Application Proliferation

Features

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.

Features

Client Document Security Audits: Is Your Law Firm Ready? Image

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.

Features

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

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.

Features

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.

Features

Introducing the Cybersecurity Reference Model Image

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

Features

Moving from Good Law to Great Law™ Image

Moving from Good Law to Great Law™

James A. Durham

Law firm leadership is at a proverbial fork in the road. The people running law firms can continue to do business as usual, or they can lead their firms toward a model of business that reflects the new and still evolving client expectations and market demands.

Features

Culture of Collaboration Image

Culture of Collaboration

Peter Ozolin

<b><i>Optimal Insights Through Inter-Departmental Initiatives</b></i><p><p>As dizzying amounts of resources and the need for the timeliest insights grow, the conduit and collaboration between business development and an organization's information management department, especially, becomes more critical than ever.

Features

Sixth Circuit's Decision on Privacy Claims over Data Breaches Image

Sixth Circuit's Decision on Privacy Claims over Data Breaches

By Shari Claire Lewis

Data breaches such as the one Yahoo recently revealed (500 million accounts!) get the big headlines. In response, large companies double down on their efforts to protect the security of their data. But small to midsize businesses often fail to appreciate the risk of a data breach to their own business.

Need Help?

  1. Prefer an IP authenticated environment? Request a transition or call 800-756-8993.
  2. Need other assistance? email Customer Service or call 1-877-256-2472.

MOST POPULAR STORIES

  • Artist Challenges Copyright Office Refusal to Register Award-Winning AI-Assisted Work
    Copyright law has long struggled to keep pace with advances in technology, and the debate around the copyrightability of AI-assisted works is no exception. At issue is the human authorship requirement: the principle that a work must have a human author to be eligible for copyright protection. While the Copyright Office has previously cited this "bedrock requirement of copyright" to reject registrations, recent decisions have focused on the role of human authorship in the context of AI.
    Read More ›
  • Recently Introduced Bill Would Limit ITC 'Domestic Industry by Subpoena'
    Patent infringement disputes in the United States are not only heard in district courts. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) also decides high-stakes intellectual property disputes — with the remedy for the IP rights holder not being damages, but rather an exclusion order that can block a competitor's importation of infringing articles into the U.S. That remedy can be incredibly powerful for companies engaged in stiff competition in the U.S. market.
    Read More ›
  • Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
    This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
    Read More ›