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New Defend Trade Secrets Act Provides Recourse Against Trade Secret Misappropriation

Briefings / June 1, 2016

Baker & McKenzie – In the U.S. alone, trade secret theft costs innovators an estimated $450 billion per year and constitutes a threat to U.S. security and the U.S. economy. Thanks to increasing employee mobility, data transfer capabilities, and globalization, trade secret loss is a growing threat to innovators worldwide. U.S. courts have recognized the

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Slaughter and May advised Holmes Master Issuer on Notes Issue

Press Releases / June 1, 2016

LawFuel.com – Law News Online – Slaughter and May advised Holmes Master Issuer PLC in respect of the issue of a total of US$375 million and £340 million of senior notes and £582 million of subordinated notes, in three different classes, under its Residential Mortgage-Backed Note Issuance Programme. The Notes were listed on the Main

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Hyperlinking: new guidance on copyright infringement

Briefings / June 1, 2016

Slaughter & May – The issue of whether hyperlinking falls within the scope of copyright protection is of fundamental importance to all those who use the internet. Two years after the ECJ considered the legality of hyperlinking in the case of Svensson (C-466/12), the Advocate General (AG) has delivered its opinion in GS Media BV

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Big Data and How the EU Anti-Trust Authorities Will Treat It

Briefings / May 31, 2016

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP On May 10, 2016, the French Competition Authority and German Federal Cartel Office published “Competition Law and Data,” a joint report on big data and its implications for competition law. The paper identifies issues that antitrust authorities should consider when assessing the interplay among big data, market power

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Why Lawyers Need Not Fear The Onset of the Robot Lawyer

Law Firm Technology / May 31, 2016

Is legal work too complex to be performed by machines? Should we fear the introduction of the ‘robot lawyer’? The nature of the law and the way legal services are delivered is changing, hastened of course by the Internet. Sites like LegalZoom are perhaps one of the best known legal brands in the United States

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Personal Benefits of Insider Trading

Briefings / May 30, 2016

Proskauer – On May 26, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that friends’ gifts of wine, steak dinners, and other luxury items can constitute the types of personal benefit needed to establish a breach of duty in connection with a prosecution for insider trading. The court’s May 26, 2016 decision in

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“Dear Peter . . ” Gawker’s Nick Denton Writes to Peter Thiel

LawStars / May 30, 2016

The massive damages awarded against Gawker in the Hulk Hogan lawsuit, funded by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, has lead to suggestions that Thiel is out to kill gossip site Gawker. In fact, it’s more than a suggestion . . And now Gawker owner Nick Denton has written an open letter to Thiel dealing with Thiel’s new

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“El Chapo’s” Lawyers Also Seek Notoriety Apparently

Law Firms / May 30, 2016

“El Chapo” the infamous drug lord is battling more than just extradition to the US, he’s also got his own lawyers battling one another. Having a legal team in-fighting is not the most helpful characteristic of a successful legal defense of any kind, but Joaquin Guzman has had two of his attorneys file an appeal

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Advertising as a “Super Lawyer” or “Rising Star”. Think Carefully This Law Committee Warns

Law Firms / May 27, 2016

How “super” are the ‘Super Lawyers’? How ‘rising’ are the legal stars? And are the “best lawyers” really best? These are issues that arise as as result of the plethora of awards and lists compiled by the legal media that have prompted a New Jersey committee charged with the responsibility of considering ethical advertising to

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Why Did Billionaire Peter Thiel Finance Hulk Hogan’s Gawker Lawsuit?

Law Firms / May 27, 2016

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel financed the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker, along with other lawsuits against the gossip site. Many have asked ‘Why?’ Thiel, a former lawyer and Supreme Court clerk who went on to make billions as co-founder of PayPal among other ventures, said he regarded his financing of lawsuits against the scandal

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