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There May Be 'No Do-Overs,' but SEC Hack Provides Important Security Lessons Image

There May Be 'No Do-Overs,' but SEC Hack Provides Important Security Lessons

Ed Silverstein

Even the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can get hacked — and the recently announced cyber attack against the SEC is providing an important wake-up call for U.S. companies regulated by the powerful agency and the attorneys they work with.

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FTC Moves Directly Against Social Media Influencers Image

FTC Moves Directly Against Social Media Influencers

C. Ryan Barber

The FTC has faulted social media influencers for failing to disclose the payments behind their seemingly organic endorsements. But the FTC only reached settlements with the companies, raising a question of when — if ever — the agency would directly go after the influencers.

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Qualcomm Slammed In Patent Brawl With Apple Image

Qualcomm Slammed In Patent Brawl With Apple

Qualcomm Inc. lost two pretrial skirmishes last month in its patent and antitrust battle against Apple Inc. — in just about every way imaginable.

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Website Accessibility: The Law and Your Business Priorities Image

Website Accessibility: The Law and Your Business Priorities

Matthias L. Niska

The first step to solving a problem is knowing it exists. But many businesses have never thought to ask whether their customer-facing websites are accessible to people with disabilities, and only become aware of the issue when they are sent a demand letter or served with a lawsuit alleging that their site violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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<i>Legal Tech</i><br> Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Business Process Management and Law Firms Image

<i>Legal Tech</i><br> Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Business Process Management and Law Firms

Zachary Beauchemin & Alisha DiGiandomenico

Though traditionally considered laggards when adopting new technology, law firms have recently started to explore new tricks to fortify performance across their organizations. While this evolution is critical to a firm's survival, it's important that firm administrators understand that substantive improvements are only possible through multi-directional change.

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Trade Secrets Litigation: The No-Longer-Forgotten Part of the Tech IP Arsenal Image

Trade Secrets Litigation: The No-Longer-Forgotten Part of the Tech IP Arsenal

Zach Warren

<b><i>With Massive Jury Rewards and the DTSA Encouraging Federal Litigation, Trade Secrets Litigation Is Seeing a Surge in the Tech Industry</b></i><p>These days, many of the big IP litigation battles involving companies like Facebook, Uber, and Epic, have nothing to do with patents, trademarks or copyrights at all. Instead, it's all about the perhaps forgotten part of IP: trade secrets.

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A Dragonfly in the Ointment: Cyber Attacks on the Energy Sector May Signal Dark Days Ahead Image

A Dragonfly in the Ointment: Cyber Attacks on the Energy Sector May Signal Dark Days Ahead

Michael Bahar, Trevor Satnick & Mark Thibodeaux

Recent attacks may not yet have resulted in damages or disruption, but the group appears to be positioning itself to learn how the targeted energy facilities operate while attempting to gain access to operational control systems, if they have not done so already.

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Vendor Contracting for Privacy and Security Image

Vendor Contracting for Privacy and Security

Chuck Kunz & Ian McCauley

In an effort to continue to capture ongoing and new business, vendors may be opening themselves up to liability due to poorly drafted contracts with companies. In addition, in a rush by companies to have data shifted to the cloud, privacy concerns may be dangerously minimized.

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What's the Deal with WhatsApp? Image

What's the Deal with WhatsApp?

Julian Sheppard & Michele C.S. Lange

<b><i>Investigating and Discovering Mobile Device Data</b></i><p>Analyzing data from mobile devices is still uncharted territory for many in Legal and IT. Accordingly, today's modern legal and technology professionals need to brush-up on all things mobile. This includes understanding where applicable data resides in a mobile device and what common challenges are associated with accessing, preserving and extracting this data. One such app taking the mobile device world by storm is WhatsApp.

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Industry Vendors Exploited Via Industry-Wide Cyber Attacks Image

Industry Vendors Exploited Via Industry-Wide Cyber Attacks

Mark Sangster

<b><i>How to Protect Your Firm from Vendor Risks</b></i><p>The legal industry is still lulled into a false sense of security, mistakenly assuming that they are immune to a significant IT business outage, and that those unfortunate firms affected by cybercriminals were somehow lacking in adequate cybersecurity presages. That's simply not true. Even Achilles had a weak spot.

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