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Legal Tech -- Behind the Tech: Client-Centric Innovation: The Evolution of the Casepoint Platform Image

Legal Tech -- Behind the Tech: Client-Centric Innovation: The Evolution of the Casepoint Platform

Vishal Rajpara

<b><i>One In a Continuing Series of Articles Looking At Legal Tech Innovation and the Story Behind It</i></b><p>In seeing clients' pain-points and becoming intimately engaged with their internal processes, my colleagues and I resolved to address a problem that many of our clients may not have even known they could fix. Our overriding goal from the outset was to fill the efficiency void that was so obvious in all of the feedback we were receiving from clients across the board by developing a fully integrated, end-to-end legal workflow platform.

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Monopolizing the Disruptive Image

Monopolizing the Disruptive

Arthur Beeman

<i><b>The Federal Circuit's Threat to Software Innovation in the </i>Oracle v. Google<i>Decisions</i>&lt;</b><p>The Federal Circuit decisions in the Oracle v. Google copyright case rattled Silicon Valley not simply because the decisions upended software developers' understandings of copyright law, but also because the decisions do not comport with the disruptive ethos of the technology industry.

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On the Same Page: Blockchain for the Advertising Industry Image

On the Same Page: Blockchain for the Advertising Industry

Laura Jehl, Robert Musiala, Linda Goldstein, Fernando Bohorquez & Amy Mudge

While inflated expectations abound, the advertising industry is emerging as one of the more immediate, substantive and compelling use cases for blockchain technology.

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The Brave New World of Cybersecurity Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions: Pitfalls and Opportunities Image

The Brave New World of Cybersecurity Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions: Pitfalls and Opportunities

Thomas McThenia & Richard Markow

Like poorly-behaved school children, new technologies and intellectual property (IP) are increasingly disrupting the M&amp;A establishment. Cybersecurity has become the latest disruptive newcomer to the M&amp;A party.

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Know Your Tech Image

Know Your Tech

Michael Bahar & Kristen Bertch

Technologies are often pitched as solutions, if not game-changing solutions. Indeed, many times they are, but no solution comes without the seeds of its own costs and challenges. For pragmatic and regulatory compliance reasons, it is increasingly important for boards, senior executives and general counsel to sufficiently understand technologies, not just their potential promise.

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A Survey of Proposed Federal Privacy Legislation and the Year Ahead Image

A Survey of Proposed Federal Privacy Legislation and the Year Ahead

Jeffrey Atteberry

The social, economic, and political forces pushing for a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's privacy regime are numerous, and many see 2019 as presenting the best opportunity yet for passage of federal data privacy legislation.

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FINRA Report on Best Cybersecurity Practices Is Must-Read, Alston & Bird Lawyer Says Image

FINRA Report on Best Cybersecurity Practices Is Must-Read, Alston & Bird Lawyer Says

MP McQueen

<b><i>Cybersecurity Practices Must “Be Appropriately Tailored to the Entity. It Should Be Risk-Based, Based on Risk to Your Organization.”</b></i><p>The recently released FINRA report provides guidance for broker-dealer firms of various sizes on how they can mitigate the risks of cyberattacks and data theft by other means.

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Legal Tech: Winter 2019 E-Discovery Case Law Review Image

Legal Tech: Winter 2019 E-Discovery Case Law Review

Mike Hamilton

As a practice, e-discovery involves professionals from a variety of disciplines. For this case law review, we spoke with professionals who play different roles in the e-discovery process to identify three case law rulings from 2018 that stood out in the impact they have on how e-discovery is practiced today.

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25 Years After: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose and the State of Copyright Fair-Use Controversies Image

25 Years After: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose and the State of Copyright Fair-Use Controversies

Stan Soocher

On March 7, 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court decided for the first time that a parody may be a copyright fair use. In the 25 years that followed, the High Court's unanimous 9-0 ruling in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Inc., has been cited in more than 500 court decisions. But the Supreme Court's pronouncement left questions and controversies in its wake.

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Second Circuit Affirms 'ReDigi': No 'Resale' of Digital Music Files Image

Second Circuit Affirms 'ReDigi': No 'Resale' of Digital Music Files

Robert J. Bernstein & Robert W. Clarida

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently issued a long-awaited ruling in <i>Capitol Records LLC v. ReDigi Inc.</i>, affirming summary judgment in favor of Capitol Records and its record label co-plaintiffs in a case that raised issues of first impression concerning first sale and fair use in the age of digital music distribution.

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