The European Union’s proposed cybersecurity regulation comes at a time when many other legislators are attempting to mitigate the global rise in cyber attacks.
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5 Ways the Data Privacy Landscape Changed This Month
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Data privacy is a mercurial landscape these days, rife with new press releases from federal regulators and state AGs going after large corporations for privacy snags.
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Protecting Your Clients' Data: The Biggest Mistakes Firms Are Making
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Phishing attacks, unsecured communications, unmonitored mobile device usage and more are creating security vulnerabilities at many firms.
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As Legal Points to CLM Tools' Shortcomings, Could They Face Their Reckoning?
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As more legal professionals find themselves with CLM tools that don’t quite match the pain points they were hoping to solve, some experts suggest that it could lead to more thoughtful and intentional implementations of CLM tools compared to the rush driven by the pandemic.
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Most Legal Departments Use a Mixed Model for E-Discovery Tasks, Whether They Know It or Not
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No matter how large a corporation is, the allotted budgets for e-discovery within most legal departments are still too slim to do all the expanse of tasks internally, making a “mishmash” of outside counsel and service providers necessary to the workflow.
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KeyBank Parent Company, Tech Vendor Hit With Data Breach Suit
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This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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How Digital Mail Operations Expose Firms to Risk
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Document management systems are superior to scan-to-email tools in terms of cybersecurity, governance, ethics and more.
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'A Real Handicap': Could California Pay Transparency Bill Hinder Legal Tech's Hiring Efforts?
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California’s proposed pay transparency bill is likely to be met with some pushback in the legal tech field as experts point to a highly competitive market where salaries have been used by employers as leverage against competitors.
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Reynen Court Looks to Scale Up and Widen Networking Circle With Stock Offering
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The legal tech platform hopes to widen its investor circle by encouraging funding from legal tech enthusiasts and law firms alike, with more in the industry having “skin in the game” of Reynan Court’s trajectory.
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CLM Tools: Hackers 'Know Where the Vault Is,' but Is Legal Aware of It?
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While the rise in cyberattacks on contract lifecycle management tools is unlikely to deter legal professionals’ adoption, some suggest that it could impact the legal tech market as clients could be reluctant to work with many vendors if it increases their exposure to attacks.
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Morgan Stanley's Lost Hard Drives Offer 'Cautionary Tale' for Legal, Compliance Chiefs
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“We’ll be taking a look at the findings to decide how it might impact us and make sure we don’t fall into the same mistakes,” said Featurespace chief legal officer Don Riddick.
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Taking the Next Step in Tech for a Competitive Edge and Protected Margins
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Leveraging big data will empower law firms to maintain profitability and weather a potential economic downturn.
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Q&A: Former Microsoft VP Discusses Opportunities, and Challenges, in E-Discovery
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Despite the rise in new technologies, Ron Markezich, the new CEO of e-discovery provider Lighthouse, says he expects to see a continued focus on leveraging AI in e-discovery.
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Judge Tosses Claim in State Bar Data Breach Lawsuit
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Magistrate Judge Douglas McCormick will allow the plaintiffs to amend another claim before deciding the fate of the proposed class action.
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'No Way!' Lawyers Criticize Ruling That Split Federal Courts Regarding Social Media
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First Amendment attorney Ari Cohn, in a Twitter podcast, described Oldham’s argument that the platform moderator’s don’t have free speech because there is “no speaker” as baffling.
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