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e-Mail Risk Mitigation For Law Firms
Each day, law firms are entrusted with valuable and sensitive client information. Moreover, attorneys create and handle documents that require strict confidentiality to avoid loss of evidentiary privileges. In today's digital workplace, many of these files are exchanged via e-mail. While e-mail allows for convenience, speed and portability, each attorney using e-mail must ask before sending: “Am I putting my client's confidentiality needs and expectations, as well as my ethical obligations, at risk?”
Now more than ever, data security ' whether when exchanging documents via e-mail, storing them in the cloud, or using other forms of digital collaboration ' must be at the forefront of law firms' priorities. Law firms and individual attorneys are becoming top targets for hackers, which is no surprise based on the volume of intellectual property and financial information handled by lawyers. Opportunities for data breaches abound and they occur among law firms more often than is publicized. Consider, for example, that the New York Times Dealbook published a piece on Citigroup's finding that major U.S. law firms are frequently experiencing data breaches, but they are rarely disclosing this publically to avoid loss of clientele and damage to their reputation.
The Outlook on e-Mail: Best Practices for a More Secure Firm
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.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?