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General counsel are expected to push for better standards of cyber security in law firms - as the risks they are exposed to when passing documents between them are likely to increase, according to Mitratech. | 11yrs

Some of the most influential people in the cyber security sector, including the head of an arm of the CIA, are calling for liability for cyber weaknesses to be passed on to software designers in the numerous cases where their designs are faulty. | 11yrs

Over 100 criminal lawyers at different Scottish practices are using an app developed by colleague Avtar Bhatoa, senior partner of Bullivant Law, in conjunction with Bullseye Solutions. | 11yrs

General counsel and the chief legal officers at NASDAQ, General Electric, Marsh & McLennan and 29 other leading companies have signed a joint letter to the Obama administration and Congress - supporting data-sharing in the battle against hackers. | 11yrs

More law firms are buying cyber insurance and more are buying it to take immediate effect, according to experts in the US market. | 11yrs

Voice recognition will advance to such an extent in the next five years that lawyers will speak to their mobiles rather than typing into them and address questions to intelligent walls in meeting and other rooms, according to Expect Labs. | 11yrs

Morrison & Foerster has the largest number of alumni of US law firm in the Apple legal team in the US - according to an analysis of data from LinkedIn and the California State Bar. | 11yrs

BlackBerry, a traditional favourite with lawyers, hopes to appeal to other sectors needing secure devices, with the launch of its SecuTABLET later this year - a product that is being tested for 'classified information' status in Germany. | 11yrs

Professional bodies might start requiring would-be lawyers to be competent in the prevailing technologies, according to a lead speaker at the Australian College of Law Specialist Legal Conference. | 11yrs

Senior IT staff in London law firms are typically earning £68,000 a year - only 51% of the £133,000 they could earn in banks - but beating the poorer salaries of £51,000 offered in the public sector. | 11yrs

Virtually all of the top US law firms have been subject to data breaches, according to an unnamed FBI agent in discussion with a lawyer from Washington DC-based Steptoe & Johnson. | 11yrs

Allen & Overy and Linklaters are said to be planning to join a US group of leading firms which are setting up anonymous information-sharing facilities to fend off cyber attacks in the banking sector. | 11yrs

General counsel are being urged by Latham & Watkins to build up their in-team technology understanding in order to have the 'comfort and competence in technology issues so that they can advise at the highest level on hard questions' on cyber attacks. | 11yrs

The 900-lawyer firm Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith appeared before a magistrate judge last week - in a failed attempt to reach a settlement with an insurance boutique firm over the fate of laptops taken by a group of 14 lawyers joining the firm. | 11yrs

Hillary Clinton's reliance on her personal email account during her time as US secretary of state was 'foolish' and 'scary', according to Jerry Reisman, partner and government ethics lawyer at Reisman, Peirez, Reisman & Capobianco. | 11yrs

Foreign businesses will be subject to a raft of new rules - including keeping servers and user data in China and handing over encryption keys - if new anti-terrorism laws which are due to be read in parliament this week are subsequently adopted. | 11yrs

Nearly four out of five of legal professionals are missing productivity goals set by their firms or departments - with a large part of the problem being attributed to holes in document management systems. | 11yrs

Research into the controls in place at 60 of the leading law firms in the UK county of Yorkshire has found that nine out of ten of them failed to take adequate steps to protect client data from hackers. | 11yrs

Lawyers, even at the highest level, are vulnerable to the advances of artificial intelligence as Amazon, Google and Facebook focus on ways of replacing humans with robots in all parts of the workplace. | 11yrs