Legal industry veteran Howard Rosenberg was a co-founder of Decipher. After he joined Baretz+Brunelle in February to launch a new lateral intelligence service, his former partner Michael Ellenhorn sent a cease and desist order. Now the fight has made it to court.
Continue Reading Litigation Sparks Between Rivals in Lateral Move Intelligence Business

Are you looking to dive into the NFT space yourself? It can be lucrative, but also a tricky field to navigate for those who don’t have a wide array of skills. Here’s seven pieces of advice from attorneys who have ventured into the space first.
Continue Reading What Lawyers Say You Should Know Before Jumping Into NFTs

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) now requires a notification 6 hours after a cybersecurity incident for most types of incidents. Here’s what entities who do business in India or work with Indian service providers need to know.
Continue Reading Inside India's New 6 Hour Cybersecurity Incident Notification Requirement

Following a challenging year, the U.K.-listed law firm also cited the war in Ukraine and the impact of COVID on its regional offices as a reason for the financial slowdown.
Continue Reading U.K.-Listed Law Firm Ince Blames Cyber Attack for Dip in Revenue

A company attorney said at oral argument that McVey was fired “because she posted on her social media a clearly racist dog whistle post, which was inconsistent with the vision and the mission and the core values of AtlantiCare.”
Continue Reading Employee Fired Over 'Dog Whistle' Social Media Posts Loses—Again—in Court

Law firms throughout Europe are seeing a flood of new work advising clients on doing business in the metaverse. But their approaches, like the projects they are called on to advise, vary widely.
Continue Reading One Size Doesn't Fit All: How Firms in Europe Are Organizing to Catch the Metaverse Wave

Joshua Chu, a lawyer who acted as tech consultant for Hong Kong law firm ONC Lawyers, has left to join Singapore-headquartered metaverse blockchain company Coinllectibles.
Continue Reading Lawyer Leaves Large Hong Kong Firm to Head Risk Function at Blockchain NFT Business

This week’s episode features conversations with Diana Stern, GC of Palm NFT Studio, about how she became an expert in the metaverse, non-fungible tokens and blockchain technology, and Samantha Joseph, co-head of Law.com’s Litigation Desk, about a new project aimed at helping others to begin developing their own expertise in those areas.
Continue Reading There's No Time Like the Present to Become Well-Versed in the Metaverse

Across the United States, legislatures are passing new biometric privacy laws with potentially onerous fines, making businesses who collect biometric information, and the insurance companies that sell policies to those companies, understandably nervous.
Continue Reading While New Biometric Privacy Laws Have Led to Widespread Litigation and Large Settlements, Most Courts Have Held That Insurance Covers These Claims

“Snapchat was really at the frontier of having to negotiate this emerging question of how does technology apply to these old laws that were written decades ago.”
Continue Reading 'Constant Curiosity': Former Snap GC Chris Handman Thrives on Risk, Ambiguity

Cross-country flights for 15-minute appearances have some attorneys dreading a return to in-person proceedings.
Continue Reading This Could Have Been a Zoom Hearing: Some Litigators Dread Returning to the Courtroom

“Businesses that fail to evolve will cease to be competitive,” said Louis Lehot, a partner with Foley & Lardner.
Continue Reading What GCs Exploring NFT, Web3 Opportunities Need to Know

George Kounoupis of Hahalis & Kounoupis says the campaign of defamatory online reviews is especially damaging for his referral-based business.
Continue Reading After Online Posts Calling Him 'Incompetent, Thief,' Pa. Attorney Sues Ex-Client for Defamation