Where an organization is based affects the technologies being used by its legal department, according to the latest Sharplegal research from Acritas, who discovered that it is legal departments in UK organizations that should be most concerned. Market research experts Acritas have been investigating how innovation and technologies in the legal industry are evolving, based […]
Lawmakers are facing a head to head conflict with the US President as the effects of the steel tariffs are felt across the US. Below Geoffrey R. Morgan, Founding Partner at Morgan Legal Group, LLC, comments on the overall impact of the steel tariffs on the nation, and the consequences that may come. Following my […]
Helping law firms come to grips with self-destruct messaging More and more individuals and corporate enterprises are using encrypted self-destruct messaging, also known as ephemeral messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Snapchat or Wickr. Ephemeral messaging is the transmission of encrypted messages that automatically or within a set period of time, disappear from the recipient’s device […]
Carson Burnham is an equity shareholder at Ogletree Deakins, PC, an international Labour & Employment firm. She Chairs the International Practice, which consists of lawyers who specialise in assisting in-house counsel and their business-partners with labour & employment-law challenges outside the country in which they work. After starting the Practice in 2011 and growing it […]
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr. was born in Queens, NY, August of 1963. He is third generation military and his father and Grandfather served in the Army, so naturally, he was exposed to military life at an early age. To serve his country […]
We hear from David Matthews who speaks on some pretty important topics in politics, topics that we don’t hear about in the national news but should. He states: “Corporations that own such a large part of what we call “The News” are able to do most of what they do in stealth, by avoiding the […]
With a vast amount of people working on ensuring things run smoothly, especially when the deal is cross-border and involving multiple jurisdictions and their respective legislations, employment law is often not the first aspect on the team’s mind. Jonathan Carr, Partner at Lewis Silkin LLP, discusses due diligence in employment law, and what companies should […]
Immigration: It is a sensitive topic to say the least. Brexit was half an opportunity to spew negativity towards immigrants with famous quotes, as follows: ‘they are taking all of our jobs!’ and ‘I want my country back!’… like they had lost it in the first place. The more extreme xenophobic comments surfaced from an […]
By Aaron Simpson, James Henderson and Olivia Lee, Hunton Andrews Kurth The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has now been in force for two months, and anyone who expected the dust to settle before summer will be sorely disappointed. In the months leading up to the GDPR’s implementation, 42-46% of businesses surveyed by the Ponemon […]
For over 25 years, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), also known as the Bradley Act, has prevented wagering on sports in the majority of states across the US. While Nevada remained a haven for gamblers and states like Delaware and Montana had their sports lotteries, those in other states had no choice […]
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