Governance, Risk & Compliance

The American Bar Association said last night that an unauthorized hacker gained access to the ABA network and may have acquired usernames and salted and hashed passwords that members would have used to access a prior version of the website. 
In a statement, the ABA said:
“On March 17, 2023, the ABA observed unusual activity on its network. The association
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 Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. One week after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Wolters Kluwer posted a free publicly available resource Due Diligence Checklist .Since March 17th they have added five addition resources to a suite of tools referred to as the Bank Failures Toolkit. The resources are developed for inhouse counsel and their external law firms..
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Exterro has acquired eDiscovery rival Zapproved, in a move that the fast-growing private-equity-backed company says will further its vision to provide customers with everything they need to manage their legal …
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Among the things the two e-discovery companies Exterro and Zapproved have in common is that they were both founded in the same year, 2008, and in the same city, Portland, Ore. Now they have something else in common, as they announce today that Exterro has acquired Zapproved.
While the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, Exterro said that the acquisition
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Sign of the Times: New York To Require Cybersecurity CLE Credits
When was the last time you attended a CLE course focused on cybersecurity issues? If you’re anything like most lawyers, chances are you’ve never taken one. But if you’re a New York
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