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Shielding Law Practices: Mitigating Vendor Risks to Safeguard Client Confidentiality
When a global law firm pays millions to settle class action suits from clients whose personal information is compromised in a data breach, the price they pay often seems steep. But for a law firm, a multi-million-dollar payout is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the damage that can be done by cyber-attacks.
As stewards of some of the most sensitive information on the planet, firms also risk compliance problems, delays that impact legal proceedings, a steep drop in productivity, and severe trust and reputational damage if the firm is breached.
And if it can happen to global firms with thousands of staffers and marquis clients — not to mention significant cybersecurity budgets — it can happen to any firm.
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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.
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.
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.
Removing Restrictive Covenants In New York
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?