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The Stormy Daniels v Trump Case Illustrates Changes Social Media Brings To Libel

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Thompson Coburn – The Internet has clearly changed how we think about facts and truth, as the Stormy Daniels versus President Donald Trump case illustrates. Libel is the tort that covers false and highly damaging statements about one’s reputation. Key issues in libel law, like falsity, and what constitutes a highly damaging statement, are based […]

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10 Steps To Identify Red Flags in Your Email Inbox

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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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Women in Law: What We’re Doing in Law Firms is Not Working

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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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Litigation: Consider More Paths By Generating Alternatives

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Supremecourt

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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Breaking Five Bad Habits of Lawyers

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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

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What are the prospects of a U.S.-UK trade agreement after Brexit?

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 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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The Shape of Water: Tax Disputes in the Age of Intangible Value

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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 are now front and center of internal legal department

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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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A Colossal Multi-Billion Dollar Money Laundering Scandal Showed Deficiencies in AML Procedures

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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

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