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Information Governance Insights: Preserving and Collecting Structured Electronic Data Is Tricky
Today’s litigators are keenly aware of the need to effectively preserve electronically stored information (ESI) when new legal matters arise. And dealing with various types of unstructured data such as user-created documents and email messages has become quite routine. But preserving and...
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Four Things Lawyers Can Do to Improve Cyber-Risk Programs: You need to think of yourself as both a steward and a shepherd
The role of corporate counsel has been rapidly evolving in the past few years. The scope of responsibilities has expanded beyond legal administrative tasks to include companywide risk management, cost control, regulatory compliance and other areas that affect the company’s reputation and...
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Managing Privacy Risks in E-Discovery Data Collection and Processing: Understanding data privacy regulations for personally identifiable information
Properly managing the personally identifiable information (PII) of employees and customers has become a primary concern for corporate counsel and risk managers. It’s no wonder given the massive fines regulators are dishing out. In 2012, the Federal Trade Commission fined Google $22.5 million...
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Information Lifecycle Governance Takes Center Stage for Corporate Counsel
Over the past year I have used this column to explore the various topics relating to Information Lifecycle Governance (ILG). ILG means many different things to different people. Ask 10 people for a definition and you are likely to get at least a dozen different answers. This lack of consensus is...
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AlixPartners’ Annual Litigation and Corporate Compliance Survey: Corporate counsel overwhelmingly embrace technology to reduce risk
AlixPartners’ fourth Annual Litigation and Corporate Compliance Survey polled 300 senior executives – general counsel and compliance officers – at U.S. and European companies with annual revenues of $150 million or more between June and October 2016. The survey reveals that:...
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Information Governance Insights: Diving into the Dark Web
The Dark Web is a term that has been getting a lot of attention in corporate boardrooms and media outlets as of late. The general preconception of the Dark Web is that it’s a seedy underground digital hiding place for drug dealers, assassins, cybercriminals and pedophiles, which isn’t...
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Data Mapping for Global Privacy Compliance
It has been a year since the Safe Harbor framework was invalidated by the European Court of Justice. That framework allowed U.S. companies that registered with the Federal Trade Commission to legitimately transfer data from EU member countries to the U.S. At the time the Safe Harbor was invalidated...
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