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Another Kind Of Room With A View
Ramping up for document-review is a challenging prospect, requiring a firm to react quickly and aggressively, depending on the requirements of the case. The timeline for reviews can be extremely long, requiring attorneys to spend months sifting through information or very short, at times requiring firms to use contract attorneys to scale up to several times their original staffs' size to meet deadlines.
“When very large document-review projects come up, it places terrific strain on the firm's infrastructure,” says Nick Gaglio, an associate at Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider, a New York-based firm that concentrates on anti-trust and intellectual-property litigation. “For some document-intensive review projects, there is enormous pressure from the client to finish the review quickly.”
Gaglio says that sometimes, his firm's staff balloons from 23 attorneys to more than 200, supplementing the staff with contract lawyers to get through material faster. It's a case-by-case need that the firm has come to juggle adroitly on demand.
Spurred By Data Breaches, CLOs Are Increasing Cybersecurity Leadership Role
Chief information officers still bear the brunt of cybersecurity worries at many companies. But a study by the Association of Corporate Counsel Foundation finds that chief legal officers are increasingly taking a leadership role in cybersecurity strategy.
GCs Want to Tap Into AI But Lack Roadmap, Report Shows
General counsel are eager to tap the promise of generative AI. But without clear technology road maps, many legal departments are struggling to turn that interest into action.
Is Google Search Dead? The Key to Thriving In an AI-Driven World
Part Two of this two-part article examines practical steps marketers must take to succeed in this changing landscape by embracing a multichannel, AI-driven approach to their marketing and PR efforts.
Shifting Crypto and Cyber Enforcement Priorities In SEC
When the SEC issues the next annual enforcement report for fiscal year 2025, we expect securities offering actions and investment adviser actions will almost certainly be up, and the “crypto” and “cyber” cases will almost certainly be down. Public statements by the new SEC administration have said as much, but even more telling than public statements are the allocation of limited enforcement resources.
Seventh, Ninth Court Rulings Tighten Reach of Federal Video Privacy Protection Act
The VPPA may be nearly four-decades old and video-rental stores largely a thing of the past, but the rise of online content, streaming services and ancillary activities has brought with it frequent litigation based on the VPPA. The key challenge in these litigations is how to interpret the VPPA’s 1980s terms in light of today’s digital advances.