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California Courts Announce New AI Regulations

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On July 18, 2025, California’s Judicial Council approved a set of rules for integrating generative AI into judicial operations. With the adoption of Rule 10.430 and Standard 10.80 specifically, the courts are looking to put...more

Jaburg Wilk

Action Absorbs Anxiety

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Every professional knows the feeling. You’re staring at a complex negotiation, facing a high-stakes client meeting, or preparing for a board meeting that could make or break your company’s future. Anxiety creeps in like fog,...more

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Lawyers Beware: There Could Be Serious Ethics Issues With The New AI Browsers

AI just took a major step forward, and lawyers need to be paying attention. In this episode, I break down the launch of new AI browsers from ChatGPT and Perplexity. These tools are designed to act on your behalf, reading...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

ABA Weighs in on Lawyer Responses to Negative Online Reviews

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In an ethics opinion issued on January 13, 2021, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility  has provided guidance to practitioners on responding to negative online reviews...more

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Client Service Continuity Strategies for Law Firms Responding to Coronavirus Pandemic

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter – Special Edition - On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Reactions to this declaration and the spread of the virus are in a...more

Hogan Lovells

USPTO warns attorneys to monitor trademark filings for fraudulent uses of attorney information

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) recently issued a “Trademark Alert” and corresponding news brief warning attorneys to monitor trademark filings to ensure that their names, signatures, and contact information...more

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Lawyers, Protect Client Confidentiality When Using Social Media

When conducting social media training, a common concern I run across has to do with attorneys and staff being afraid they will post something that will get them in trouble. Consequently, they hold back from using these tools...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Cyber Alert - Social Engineering Fraud

Risk Management Question: How can lawyers identify and avoid increasingly common social engineering scams?...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

GDPR May 25th Deadline Approaching – Businesses Globally Will Feel Impact

In less than four months, the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR" or the "Regulation") will take effect in the European Union/European Economic Area, giving individuals in the EU/EEA greater control over their...more

BCLP

Data Privacy and Security: A Practical Guide for In-House Counsel, 2018 Edition

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Five years ago few legal departments were concerned with – let alone focused on – data privacy or security. Most of those that were aware of the terms assumed that these were issues being handled by IT, HR, or marketing...more

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Environmental Regs That Have Been Revoked, Stayed or Postponed by the New Administration

Only a few existing federal environmental rules have been set aside or overturned by the new Administration, and these actions were taken by the Congress in accordance with the special procedures of the Congressional Review...more

Hogan Lovells

IoT Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trends in Asia: Be Ready

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In this hoganlovells.com interview, Hong Kong-based Hogan Lovells partner Mark Parsons talks about the regulatory environment in Asia as it relates to cybersecurity, data privacy, and the Internet of Things (IoT)....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Deep Dive Due Diligence: Part I – What is Level III Due Diligence?

There are many levels of due diligence investigation. In a multi-part series this week, I am going to focus on Level III, deep dive due diligence. I am joined in this exploration by Candice Tal, founder and Chief Executive...more

Perkins Coie

Preparing for the SEC’s Increased Pursuit of Compliance Officers

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The SEC’s recent aggressive enforcement posture against chief compliance officers has raised many concerns, including whether the SEC’s actions are actually chilling robust compliance efforts. To protect themselves against...more

NAVEX

Top Ten Ethics & Compliance Predictions & Recommendations for 2016

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To help with our predictions and recommendations, we’ve talked with industry experts, our colleagues at NAVEX Global, and ethics and compliance professionals from our more than 12,500 client organizations. Based on their...more

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What GCs Need to Know About Settling Employment Claims

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As we noted in a recent post on another topic, most of the lawyers we know who serve as general counsel are stretched pretty thin. It’s just not possible for them to become expert in all the areas of law they encounter....more

Sullivan & Worcester

10 Essentials for a Well-Drafted Litigation Hold Notice

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This post is the second in a our Legal Hold Practical Advice Series. You just learned that your company was (or probably will be) sued. How should you go about informing key employees to preserve evidence?...more

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Perspective: What Will Be the Defining Cybersecurity Issues In 2016?

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As data breaches and their related obligations and liability risks continue to pile up with every passing year, we asked attorneys writing on JD Supra to answer the question: What will be among the defining issues for...more

The Volkov Law Group

Is Your Anti-Corruption Compliance Program “Operational”?

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The Justice Department and the SEC are tired of investigating companies with “paper” compliance programs. It is easy to spot a “paper” compliance program – as the saying goes, you can smell it a mile away....more

Latham & Watkins LLP

7 Tips for Conducting Effective Cybersecurity Due Diligence in M&A Transactions

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1. Start Early - Buyers should begin conducting cybersecurity risk assessments early in the engagement process. The target should be able to identify which information technology systems and data sets are key to the...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Lessons Learned from Target’s Data Breach Discovery Win - Five Strategies for Maintaining Privilege in the Aftermath of a Data...

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A thousand questions immediately flood any lawyer’s mind when they first hear that their client may have been affected by a data breach. How did it happen? What data were affected? Was there any personal information affected,...more

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Top 10 Workplace Investigation Mistakes: Part II

In part one of this two-part series, we covered five of the most common mistakes that employers make while conducting workplace investigations, including poor complaint mechanisms, ignoring employee complaints, failing to...more

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At Will? What’s That?

Did you know that employees in most countries outside the United States have a contractual right to continued employment, whether or not they have written contract? If an employer does not provide an employee with a written...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

The Top 10 Priorities For Your Information Governance Program

The title, of course, begs the question: does your business even have an Information Governance Program? If not, you should get one—quick. An integrated Information Governance Program is considered a “best practice” to...more

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Popular Reads on Social Media & the Law

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There's much to be sorted out at the intersection of social media and the law, as evidenced by the following collection of popular reads on JD Supra....more

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