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A Perfected Lien Is Trumped: Must It Be 'Use It or Lose It'?
As creditors well know, a lien holder must be vigilant in both perfecting and maintaining the perfection and priority of its lien. But even a creditor that properly maintains its lien may find that enforcement of (or more specifically, failing to enforce) that lien can affect priority.
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The Cloud and e-Discovery
Leveraging advanced technologies can empower corporate counsel and law firms alike to take control of the ongoing challenge that today's "information on demand" expectations present. When access, disaster recovery, scalability and security are paramount requirements, a migration to the cloud could be the most effective route to help ensure this is accomplished.
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10 Lessons from FTC Guidance on Data Security
Not if, but when." These simple words are enough to keep privacy officers, corporate counsel, compliance officers and IT managers up at night when faced with the reality that their network will at some point be breached. While there are no silver bullets to stop breaches from occurring, understanding and following legal actions brought by regulatory agencies and heeding security guidance they issue can go a long way.
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Does Adoption of Cloud Computing Shift Cyber Liability Risk?
The rapid adoption of cloud computing has attracted companies that seek to lower their information technology costs. At the same time, it is reported that there has been an increase in data loss and an increase in cyber-liability claims against companies. But the biggest vendors in the cloud computing industry want to push the risk of penetration of their systems onto their customers adopting the technology.
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When a Law Firm Partner Divorces
Going through a divorce can be tumultuous for everyone involved. When one of the parties is a partner in a law firm, those challenges are sometimes elevated for both the partner and the law firm.
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Information Sharing for the Information Age
As 2015 drew to a close, Congress agreed on a federal budget. That simple act, coming on the heels of a series of contentious continuing resolutions, was big news. But tucked away on page 694 of that 887-page bill was perhaps a more significant achievement. There Congress inserted, passed, and the President signed, the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.
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Gossip Column Has No Special Protection From Defamation Suit
Just because it's on "Page Six" of the <i>New York Post</i> doesn't mean it cannot be defamatory, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The appellate court revived a defamation lawsuit by a member of The Fugees hip-hop group against the <i>Post</i> for an item in its "Page Six" gossip column, finding reasonable readers might take the story as true.
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CFPB Takes Step Into Cybersecurity Regulation
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has fired a shot across the bow of the burgeoning online-payment industry, taking an enforcement action this week that marked the agency's first foray into regulating cybersecurity.
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