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
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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
This second edition offers updated guidance on protecting brands against counterfeiting and the grey market, covering relevant legislation, enforcement measures and cross-border strategies in key jurisdictions around the world. | 1yr
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
Large US firms with over 350 lawyers are adapting to new IT far more slowly than smaller practices - with poor use of document management systems, only half using document assembly and many still using fax, photocopying and couriers. | 11yrs
An anonymous lawyer has told ABC 10 News how a hacker transferred US$289,000 from his account to a Chinese bank shortly after clicking on the attachment in an email and then receiving a call that purported to be from his bank. | 11yrs
The secret recording by the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ of privileged conversations between lawyers and clients is a breach of human rights law, according to an unexpected government admission - and rectification work is urgently taking place as a result. | 11yrs
Senior judges are behind a proposal from Professor Richard Susskind to set up swifter, relatively inexpensive online courts for civil disputes below the level of £25,000. | 11yrs
The computer science department at the University of Liverpool is looking at the potential for case analysis by artificial intelligence, using 'automated reasoning' to spot the winning arguments in legal cases. | 11yrs
Freshfields and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson are giving free advice to start-up entrepreneurs taking a 12-week programme with a new pro bono advice organisation called Cyber London. | 11yrs