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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
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
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
Optimising Value from the In-house Legal Function
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
Claudine Boast
Commercial Counsel, Spectris, UK
The Case for an EU-wide Copyright
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
Carolyn Jameson
General Counsel, Skyscanner, UK
Making the Leap: Being a Lawyer in a Non-Legal Role
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
Erika Ringseis
Manager, Compliance, Diversity & Mobility , TransCanada PipeLines Limited, Canada
Consigliere, Juggler and Business Partner - Today's In House Lawyer
“…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
Faiz Chapra
General Manager Legal, Engro Corporation, Pakistan