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Everything You Know About Lawyer Selection is Wrong: Big Data Analyzes Litigation
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
Toby Unwin
Chief Innovation Officer, Premonition LLC, USA
Who Owns the Data on Your Airline Ticket?
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
Eric Schlam
Director, Law Department, Assistant General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Airlines Reporting Corporation, USA
On the Road to Recovery: Victims of the Madoff Fraud
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
Josephine Wang
General Counsel, Securities Investor Protection Corp., USA
In a Technological World, What does it Take to be Forgotten?
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
Linda Sharp
Associate General Counsel, ZL Technologies Inc, USA
US - EU Safe Harbor Framework: The Changing Landscape of Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Data
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
Jeanette Fitzgerald
General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, Epsilon, USA
Nicole Tachibana
Privacy Manager, Epsilon, USA
Expanding the Frontiers of Electronic Financial Transactions;
But Can Regulations Keep Up?
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
Chaim Levin
Chief Legal Officer, Compagnie Financiere Tradition, USA
Public Enemy Number One: The Current Standing of Banks in the United States
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
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
Trade Secret Mediation: A Mediator's Perspective
Trade secret litigation often involves deep levels of distrust, heated emotional exchanges, suspicion and anger on the part of parties and counsel. One source of the problem lies at the...Read more
Erica Bristol
Intellectual Property Attorney, Mediator, EB Resolution Services, USA
Vigorous Pursuit, Feeble Results: Advocating Feasible Policy Options to Past & Present Anti-Offshoring Legislative Initiatives at State & Federal Levels in the United States
The term offshoring is sometimes used interchangeably with outsourcing, but the former is only a variant of the latter. “Outsourcing often refers to the transfer of a support function traditionally...Read more
Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
Selected Consumer Data Privacy Issues in the Drafting and Negotiating of Digital Advertising Contracts
The friction between technology and privacy continues to flare white hot this year. Revelations by Edward Snowden that the US government had and was using its ability to monitor nearly...Read more
Michael Geroe
SVP, General Counsel & Assistant Secretary, Adknowledge, Inc., USA