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GDPR-Based Objections to U.S. Discovery Requests: 2019 Year in Review Image

GDPR-Based Objections to U.S. Discovery Requests: 2019 Year in Review

Leslie Meredith

U.S. civil litigants faced with an obligation to produce "personal data" protected by GDPR can find themselves on the horns of a serious dilemma. Initial rulings addressing the tension between the broad scope of data protected by GDPR and the similarly broad scope of discovery under U.S. law revealed substantial skepticism that complying with a U.S. discovery request would expose parties to significant enforcement risk in the EU. This article takes a look at what arguments parties put forth in the past year, and make a few suggestions for how litigants can avoid violating one jurisdiction's law to satisfy another's courts.

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Driving Law Firm Profits Through Data Analytics

John Schrumpf

"Data Analytics" have become more than just buzzwords and are an integral part of well informed decision making. The following best practices have the ability to bring your firm's data management up to speed with competitors in the law industry, while turning what might be an underutilized resource into a working asset that drives revenue.

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Marketing Tech: 5 Challenges Facing Firms Trying to Boost Marketing With Tech Image

Marketing Tech: 5 Challenges Facing Firms Trying to Boost Marketing With Tech

Frank Ready

Firms are embracing new technologies to help drive marketing efforts and reach new audiences, but doing so may require some uncomfortable changes to the ways that attorneys have traditionally thought about building their brands.

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Digital Dive: Data-Driven Marketing for Law Firms — Metrics for Success Image

Digital Dive: Data-Driven Marketing for Law Firms — Metrics for Success

Amanda Sexton

The best way to make the most of your initiatives? Track them, and adjust according to the data. But that's easier said than done

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Safeguarding Your Intellectual Property

Matthew Calcagno

Documents are the lifeblood of any law firm. The documents that a firm produces are its greatest asset, especially the intellectual property — trade secrets, patent information, etc. — contained in those documents, yet firms historically have not made sufficient efforts to safeguard those documents from both internal and external threats.

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A Look Behind, A Look Ahead: Part 1 - Cybersecurity Image

A Look Behind, A Look Ahead: Part 1 - Cybersecurity

ssalkin

Cybersecurity Law & Strategy partnered with our ALM sibling Legaltech News to ask cybersecurity and e-discovery experts what they thought the key trends were in 2019 and what they expect to see in 2020.

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Data Privacy: Building Compliant and Adaptable Systems

Tomas Suros

Rather than trying to institute changes to comply with every new privacy law as it emerges, a better approach is to view data privacy as an overall framework and adopt a holistic response to compliance with the built-in flexibility to constantly adapt to an ever-changing legal landscape.

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Law Firms Enter the Golden Age of Data Mining

Doug Stansfield

Data mining is a relatively new practice in the legal space and the data profiles of firms are highly variable from one organization to another, so identifying the right tools and prioritizing initiatives can be challenging.

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Cybersecurity Skills Update for 2020

Nina Cunningham

The demand for capable skilled professionals and team players in the information security industry is increasing. For those gaining skills to work in the industry for the first time, the challenge remains to hit the ground running with a position and, better, with a career path. Yet no career path in this industry will sidestep an ongoing foothold in the classroom — onsite or virtual.

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GDPR Had Some Bite in 2019 Image

GDPR Had Some Bite in 2019

Victoria Hudgins

Although no company was hit with the maximum GDPR fine of 4% of the company's worldwide annual revenue, GDPR fines issued in 2019 were still a force to be reckoned with.

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