Despite last week urging US President Barack Obama not to force IT companies to weaken encryption for national security reasons, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith has suggested that UK proposals along these lines might be accepted by the company. | 11yrs
Stephen Poor may not think his nine tweets are particularly extraordinary but the fact that he tweets at all sets him at odds with his counterparts in the most profitable 15 US law firms. | 11yrs
General counsel and other buyers of legal services are increasingly putting pressure on law firms to outsource, according to the 2014/15 survey on outsourcing from Williams Lea and Sandpiper Partners. | 11yrs
NextLaw Labs, the new Silicon Valley subsidiary of Dentons, is soon to announce an app built with a client which aims to manage risk by using field data collected by staff on their mobiles. | 11yrs
This second edition, written by leading ESG legal specialists, provides an up-to-date jurisdictional ... | 1yr
The CEO of Facebook in Israel has urged the Tel Aviv District Court to stop Guy Ophir, a lawyer who has acted for clients alleging bullying by the internet giant, from publishing her home address, private telephone numbers and other details. | 11yrs
The majority of security breach cases are caused by employee negligence (36%) or insider theft (16%), according to an analysis of the matters it advised on in 2014, according to BakerHostetler. | 11yrs
The Canadian Anti-Terrrorism Act, now passing through parliament, could mean that law firms which do not encrypt data will imperil the confidentiality of clients - as the security forces will find it easier to get warrants that breach privacy. | 11yrs
Interviewed five years after the birth of Hogan Lovells, CEO Steve Immelt has given a wide-ranging interview in which he seems confident that firms such as his own will not be threatened by the growing role of artificial intelligence. | 11yrs
Computer specialist Chris Nasrallah claims to have created a self-learning IT system which predicts the result of Supreme Court decisions with a 70% accuracy rate. | 11yrs
Skadden Arps, Jones Day and Baker & McKenzie take the top three places in the BTI Brand Elite league table for 2015, leading the list of firms which are 'strengthening their brand with clients and winning more work'. | 11yrs
Lawyers need to be careful not to lose some of their 'deep human talent' in the coming years as software systems take over many of their traditional tasks - a process which has dulled human expertise in other sectors, according to a leading author. | 11yrs
A team of lawyers and investigators is working to prevent the equivalent of a 9/11 attack on the internet, according to the top cyber security official at the Department of Justice. | 11yrs
Early IT adopters in the US have spoken about the way smartwatches can be used in court to keep up with email in an unintrusive way and the potential for the Samsung virtual reality handset for witness interviews, depositions and hearings. | 11yrs
A group of 20 law firm leaders has unanimously agreed that the ability to provide mobile working and to reduce dependence on office space could drive revenue growth - and that firms who neglect this area could struggle to recruit new talent. | 11yrs
Warnings that robots will make many lawyers redundant should not be taken too seriously, according to Keith Grady - the Lean Law Evangelist at Seyfarth Shaw, one of the firms at the forefront of legal technology. | 11yrs
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
