Vol. 8, No. 30, Winter 2015

As organisations face increasing regulation, complexity and globalisation without corresponding increases in resources, the structure, management and resourcing of the organisation’s legal department becomes ever more important. In-house legal teams...Read more

The emergence, and subsequent pervasiveness of the internet, has resulted in the increasing digitalisation, distribution and accessibility of copyrighted works. The internet is now generally regarded as the principal means...Read more

“…I don't want a Lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.” J.P. Morgan’s thoughts...Read more

The Internet of Things (IoT) is already here, estimated to encompass just short of 30 billion connected devices by 2020. These devices are made up of a physical object;...Read more

Since the financial meltdown of 2008, highlighted by the Lehman Brothers collapse on September 15, the standing of banks in the United States has declined precipitously, with no current prospects...Read more

Maybe the business unit you support as in-house counsel is so impressed with your work that they want you to join them. Maybe you work long hours and look longingly...Read more

Nearly every week in the past several months, multifaceted debates over new concepts in high frequency trading (HFT) of various instruments have emerged rapidly. HFT firms are developing new technology...Read more

In 2008, triggered by the financial crisis, two financial companies fell from power and grace, and were placed in liquidation under the Securities Investor Protection Act (“SIPA”). The failure of...Read more

We are living in the age of data. Billions of pieces of personal information are generated and transferred between businesses every day, spurring the growth of the digital economy. These...Read more

On a recent vacation, while riding my dirt bike in the beautiful Colorado Desert of California, I came across an area near the Salton Sea known as “Slab City.” ...Read more

You just made arrangements to the destination of your dreams. On your airline ticket there are some fifty or so pieces of information, most about you, including your name,...Read more

The Brad Pitt film, Moneyball, portrays Billy Beane baseball team manager of the Oakland A’s struggling against accepted dogma in player selection. Beane’s insight was to use already available player...Read more

In any assessment of how these two new regulators are performing, it's necessary to consider why the Government bothered to reform the system at all and what was it trying...Read more

Software as a Service or SaaS is an important and growing segment of the commercial software market. Software as a Service can be viewed as a subcategory of the somewhat...Read more

The 2012 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) resource guide to the FCPA (Guide) suggests two theories for imposing liability on an issuer for...Read more

Intellectual property (IP) has always been, and will increasingly be, a critical success factor for a wide range of industries. Considerable efforts go into creating and safeguarding IP and this...Read more

In the late 1950s Eugene Burdick and William Lederer penned a novel titled the Ugly American. The book became an instant best seller and a half decade later was...Read more

I have worked in in-house legal departments as an in-house lawyer for almost 10 years in various industries both on the customer side as well as the supplier side mainly...Read more