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Four Keys to Litigation Technology Innovation in the Next Five Years
Electronic discovery is a complex business that requires continuous professional learning from litigation team members and ongoing innovation from technology solution providers. To help stimulate discussion and drive innovation, The Legal Innovation 2020 (LI 2020) Working Group was formed at the beginning of 2015 in order to help legal-industry leaders identify the keys to success over the next five years.
Below are some of the observations, concerns and solutions expressed at sessions held over the course of the past year. It's worth noting, these ideas are categorized by discussion and reflect the collective views, from senior leaders across corporate counsel, law firms and legal technology, as recorded during these sessions as follows:
- Early case assessment;
- Data security;
- Flexible workflow; and
- Machine intelligence.
Early Case Assessment
According to Gartner, by 2020, information will be used to reinvent, digitalize or eliminate 80% of business processes and products from a decade earlier. That trend line appears to be right on track in the legal industry, where evolving tools and technology in the area of early case assessment provide just one example of how information governance is being reshaped.
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?