Key Lesson from the Panama Papers Data Breach: Keep your Information...
5 questions to ask any vendor to strengthen your data security controls In the past five years, approximately 80 percent of top U.S. law firms have been hacked. Statistics reveal that an average of 229...
View ArticleEffective Legal Notification in the Changing World of Consumer Class Action...
When the Federal Judicial Center stated in a 2004 document that reaching 70 to 95 percent of the potential plaintiffs in a class action suit is a reasonable notice effort, it had no intention of...
View ArticlePacSun's Bankruptcy Filing: Another Sign of the Sea Change in the Retail...
How many teens trust their fashion sense to a brand nearly as old as their parents? In recent years, 36-year-old Pacific Sunwear, aka PacSun – once the epitome of teen surfer chic – has struggled to...
View ArticleUK Court Says Yes to Predictive Coding in eDiscovery
As eDiscovery predictive coding continues to gain popularity here in the United States, it also appears to be getting wider acceptance abroad as well—especially after a groundbreaking go-ahead from a...
View ArticleSecurities Class Action Settlements and Plain Language
The concept of using “plain language” notices to communicate with members of a class action lawsuit is not new – but one area of class action practice has not always fully adopted this ethos, however....
View ArticleIs Texas the New Delaware for Corporations Filing Chapter 11?
Since the 1990s, Delaware has reigned supreme for corporations filing bankruptcy under Chapter 11. And for good reason. Bankruptcy judges in Delaware have long set precedents other courts follow, and...
View ArticleNew York Rule Adds to Lawyers’ Burden to Keep Client Data Safe—and Vendors...
New York lawyers may soon be under greater legal pressure to protect confidential client information from data breaches. The New York State Bar Association has proposed changes to its Rules of...
View ArticleA Down Market: Lessons Learned From Fairway’s Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing
The Big Apple just had a bite taken out of it. Fairway Market, whose colorful overflow of fresh produce and wide array of fancy olive oils, imported cheeses and homemade pastas have made it a New York...
View ArticleFive Cybersecurity Points to Ponder: From the Big Law Business Summit
Bloomberg BNA hosted its second annual Big Law Business Summit in midtown Manhattan last week, which included a panel titled “Cybersecurity: New Business Realities.”
View ArticlePutting Brexit in Perspective for eDiscovery Clients
With the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union a full week behind us, cooler heads are starting to prevail. Global financial markets are stabilizing, fears of domino effects and secession...
View ArticleMedia Notice in Class Actions: It’s Not Just About Reach and Frequency Anymore
It has been long established that adequacy of a media notice program in class action settlements is measured by determining reach and frequency (the estimated percentage of a class who had the...
View ArticlePredictive Coding Can Cut Time, Cost of Document Review in Second Requests
Discovery costs can eat up a significant portion of litigation spend. Of that spend, a large portion is accounted for by the cost of document review. But predictive coding, if deployed correctly, is...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Adopts the EU-US Privacy Shield: An Update
This week, the European Union Commission officially adopted the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. Unlike the Safe Harbor framework, Privacy Shield is the first time the U.S. has provided written assurance that...
View ArticleIs Houston's Commercial Real Estate Market Running on Empty?
Only a few years ago, Houston looked like one big construction site. The epicenter of the booming Texas energy industry, Houston added more than 26 million square feet of office space in anticipation...
View Article'Making Copies' in the Digital Age & Section 1920 Compliance
Are you the prevailing party seeking copying costs under Section 1920? Or perhaps the losing party, against whom copying costs have been taxed? Either way, a recent Third Circuit opinion might be of...
View ArticleA Financial Industry Guide to Choosing a Third-Party Consent Order Administrator
Financial institutions face rising scrutiny from regulators, and regulatory investigations are increasingly common. Sometimes, settlement and a resulting consent order is necessary to resolve the...
View ArticleParticipation Rates in Government Regulatory Settlements and other...
Participation rates in regulatory settlements that include a remediation component routinely reach 75% to 95%. In a regulatory settlement, the regulator will often insist on a high participation rate....
View ArticleCybersecurity: A Crucial Due Diligence Component in M&As
We are a digitally dependent society. No big secret there. But a corporate acquisition strategy that overlooks this basic fact runs the risk of ignoring a key piece of the due diligence puzzle....
View Article5 Key eDiscovery Technology Takeaways from ILTACON 2016
In this article, originally published in Legaltech News, Adi Elliott gives Legaltech News his thoughts on the role of machine learning, data protection, and more from this year’s ILTA Conference. Read...
View ArticleAlpha Natural Resources Emerges From Bankruptcy, But Can it Survive Coal’s...
The coal industry has been experiencing disruptions of seismic proportion for some time. Twenty-six coal companies have declared bankruptcy over the last few years, with Patriot Coal, Walter Energy and...
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