Hinshaw & Culbertson – Risk Management Question: October is cyber security awareness month. What steps are you taking to avoid common Internet scams? The Issue: Hackers and their exploits are growing more sophisticated by the day. Avoiding their scams is becoming even more difficult. In 2017, 1.4 billion user names and passwords were accessed on the dark
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This article is part of a new book from ARC Group and written by former law partner Patricia Gillette as part of the book “Beyond Bias: Unleashing the Potential of Women in Law.” Patricia Gillette – Whatever we are doing in law firms to increase gender diversity in positions of economic and institutional power is
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From: PersuasiveLitigator – Holland + Hart “Should I Stay, or Should I Go,” ask The Clash. There’s a basic tendency to see our decisions in a binary fashion: There are two choices, and choosing one excludes the other. But for those seeking to understand and improve human decision-making, there are reasons to believe that this is not
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Dentons – Some of the most glaring risk prevention tools are relatively simple to employ, and, in their absence, can create headaches for lawyers. There are significant amounts of data regarding legal malpractice claims against lawyers, including the frequency, type of law, size of firm or even amounts of damages sought. This information can be
Kelley Drye Brexiteers claim that leaving the EU single market and customs union creates a golden opportunity for the UK to regain power over its international trade. The potential future post-Brexit free-trade agreement that has received the most attention is that between the U.S. and the UK. A U.S.-UK Trade and Investment Working Group was set up in
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Baker & McKenzie – With tax disputes rising exponentially across the globe, the risk to multinational corporations is greater than ever. New research from Baker McKenzie reveals that among the Fortune 500, as much as USD 75.3 billion is currently under dispute – a figure so large it threatens to wipe out more than half
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Legal Department Operations (LDOs) are now front and center of internal legal departments − as a decade of results show in a newly released survey sponsored by Baker McKenzie. Ten years ago, only 8% of Legal Ops directed or managed the selection of outside counsel for particular matters, and only 16% did so for panels. Today, those numbers
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Ballard Spahr – This week Danske Bank released a report detailing the results of its much anticipated internal investigation into allegations of money laundering perpetrated in its Estonian branch. The results of the investigation dwarfed even the boldest predictions. The report found between 2007 and 2015 the Estonian branch processed a staggering 200 billion Euros, or $234
Epiq – Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology (“DLT”) that can occur on both public and private networks. Blockchain is revolutionary technology because it can securely and permanently record transactions without the presence of a centralized authority such as a bank or government. While this technology is complex and can be confusing, a
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Mediator Lee Jay Berman may not have qualified in law, but he has become one of America’s most sought-after mediators, resolving seemingly insoluable disputes from rock band breakups to seemingly ‘irreconcilable’ business and personal disputes. And he has some thoughts on how lawyers can use mediation effectively for the one thing every good lawyer wants
