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By Tom Hagy. Little has rocked the world of news publishing in recent decades more than the proliferation of fake news. It’s been blamed for everything from swaying voters in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to triggering tectonic political...
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Featuring Baker & McKenzie attorneys George M. Clarke, partner Jason Dimopoulos, associate Marc Litt, partner Jerome Tomas, partner The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) lost a bit...
This is a collaborative commentary by the Ankura Consulting Cybersecurity and Geopolitical teams. The original article was published on March 21 , 2017, and was updated for the LexisNexis Corporate Law Advisory on August 2 , 2017. On March 7 , WikiLeaks...
You can’t swing a stethoscope these days without hitting a mobile app that promises to improve your health and well-being. The fitness conscious can track how many steps they take a day and how many calories they burn. Some apps manage medications...
Income inequality and societal polarization. We’ve been hearing much about these issues lately, and anyone paying attention—or living them—has been painfully aware of their pernicious spread for years or even decades. But will...
China is now “the undoubted center of global fintech innovation and adoption.” That’s how it was phrased in a recent Ernst & Young / DBS Bank white paper , titled The Rise of fintech in China , which says they are “revolutionizing...
In one widely reported case, employees from a branch office in the U.S. told leadership at their European HQ that the company had been lying to federal regulators and falsifying information. Rather than choosing Door #1, that is, being aghast and...
By Stefani C. Schwartz Schwartz Simon Edelstein & Celso LLC Editor’s Note: Attorneys from law firms and corporations gathered for a legal education conference in Atlantic City in April 2017, the New Jersey town where now-President Donald...
By Tom Hagy Mandatory arbitration clauses. Companies and employers love them. Consumers and employees don’t. The end. Or so some might wish. But there is much to this ubiquitous clause. There is the prickly matter of a gazillion consumer...
This article is based on a presentation delivered at the Northeast Corporate Counsel Forum held on April 7, 2017, in Atlantic City. Mari Henry Leigh, a Chicago attorney and advisor on alternative fee arrangements, assembled and moderated the session....
Edited by: Colleen Davies, Partner, Reed Smith LLP Matthew Jacobson, Associate, Reed Smith LLP Lisa Baird, Counsel, Reed Smith LLP Farah Tabibkhoei, Associate, Reed Smith LLP Attention cyberphobics, robophobics and technophobics: You now have a...
Contributors: Drew Rawl, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, PA Minh Vu, Seyfarth Shaw LLP There has been a “tsunami” of lawsuits against companies in which plaintiff attorneys claim websites do not accommodate people with disabilities. But are...
Edited by: Neil M. Sitron | Crowell & Moring, LLP Autonomous vehicles are coming fast and furious. The technology for autonomy is increasing at a rapid rate, with an ever-increasing number of vehicles on the road with varying levels of autonomous...
Contributors: Miriam F. Clark, Ritz Clark & Ben-Asher Todd H. Girshon, Jackson Lewis Dina R. Jansenson JAMS *Michael E. Kreitman, Macy’s Law, not pictured We recently assembled a panel of professionals for a LexisNexis ® webinar who...
Contributors: Zachary S. Heck, Faruki Ireland Julian War, Hamlins Po Yi, Venable Jessica Borowick, Venable Andrew P. MacArthur, Venable Imagine an online virtual reality version of championship boxing, and that you are one of the boxers, well, an...
One of President Obama’s signature measures, which was intended to improve the integrity of the government in contracting business and the workers’ environment, appears to be doomed. Hailed by labor and Democrats and derided by corporations...
Everyone has a secret. This is true for companies, too, which means the newly enacted Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) is something that will impact just about every U.S. company. Not all legal commentators think the law will meet its standardization...
Here is what one might call the “Laws of Robotics,” as stated by legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction collection, titled “ I, Robot ” : 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through...
Cyberattacks are most often associated with data breaches or data theft. It’s a big deal to us when our credit card information is stolen, our social security numbers are ripped off and someone pretends to be us as they tool around the country in...
As the state-by-state predictions are made on big election nights these days, the phrase “too close to call” is a common one. The same can be said for many aspects of enforcement policy and regulation for the nation’s financial markets...
If the most important step in a journey is the first one, you want to be sure you’re planting your foot on solid ground and not in a hole that swallows your entire leg. We recently assembled a panel of folks for a LexisNexis ® webinar...
By Kristin Casler, Featuring Vikki Stone of Poms & Associates By 2020, the U.S. is estimated to have more than 30,000 commercial drones with a total value of $80 billion. Companies involved in everything from pipeline surveying to movie making...
By Kristin Casler, featuring Mari Henry Leigh of Legal Fee Solutions, LLC Many attorneys talk about Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) like they’re the odd cousins who periodically visit, unannounced and for an indefinite period of time....
By Kristin Casler, featuring Susan Frank Divers of LRN Corp. Did you hear about the beer company that agreed in September to pay $6 million to settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations and charges it acted against the whistleblower who reported...
By Tom Hagy of HB Litigation Conferences It was hard not to feel weird. I was sitting silently on a folding chair with my eyes closed in the middle of 800 strangers in a Midtown Manhattan ballroom. But there I was, attending a conference on the...
By Kristin Casler, featuring Dr. Christina Marinakis of Litigation Insights and Dr. David Ball of Malekpour & Ball Some might argue that it is legal malpractice not to conduct jury research before heading to trial. These days, many clients expect...
By Tom Hagy, featuring Peter Norman of Winnieware LLC The following reversal of fortune was inspired by actual events. In the crush of a frantic day, and in his excitement to share something big with his colleagues and client, he decides to...
By Kristin Casler, featuring Amy Peck of Jackson Lewis When the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 4 - 4 decision in United States v. Texas in June, it dashed not only the hopes of millions undocumented immigrants seeking legal status but those of businesses...
By Ondrej Krehel, CEO and Founder of LIFARS LLC Ransomware poses one of information security’s biggest threats, right alongside infamous data breaches and high-profile Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Ransomware. It’s a...
By David Schultz, professor of political science at Hamline University and professor of law at the University of Minnesota. The regulatory environment regarding the rules that define the role that businesses can play in campaigns and elections has...
By Christina Marinakis, J.D., Psy.D., of Litigation Insights While celebrating the resolution of a recent case, the lead trial counsel commented that his only regret was not conducting the jury research earlier in the litigation. To his credit,...
By Lorna Brazell of Osborne Clarke The political implications of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) are enormous, but in practice many aspects of doing business in the UK will change only slightly, if at all. Progress toward...
By Kristin Casler, featuring John A. Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan Complex Litigation Group and Ronald Raether of Troutman Sanders LLP. With the near-daily news of data breaches large and small, it’s only natural for companies to focus...
By William Allison and Francesca Muscutt at DAC Beachcroft in London The hack of confidential data from the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, in April has brought down world leaders and corporate executives and cast costly reputational risk...
By Kristin Casler, featuring Randall Lewis of ConAgra Foods and Dan Harris of Harris Moure Doing business and protecting your intellectual property in China is about knowing the laws and regulations and the culture and politics. It is also about...
By Allen W. Batteau, Wayne State University As networks extend our ability to communicate widely, they expose businesses and governments to hackers, competitors, disgruntled co-workers and other predators. In America, the land of the techno...
By Kristin Casler, featuring Gregory Husisian of Foley & Lardner LLP and Michael Volkov of The Volkov Law Group LLC Years of robust federal enforcement have convinced most companies operating internationally to initiate policies that forbid...
By Kristin Casler, featuring James A. Paone II of Davison Eastman & Muñoz P.A., Stephen Wagner of Cohen Tauber Spievack & Wagner P.C. and William Crosby of Interpublic Group. As corporate counsel, you wear many hats. Preserving the...
By Kristin Casler, featuring Jeffrey Sharer of Akerman LLP, David Yerich of UnitedHealth Group and Hon. Kristen L. Mix of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Since the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure overhaul took effect on Dec...
By Kristin Casler, featuring Ondrej Krehel, LIFARS It goes like this. It’s a regular Tuesday. Things are humming along just fine. Someone you know from your HR department sends an email asking you to look over an attached spreadsheet. Or your...