In-House News
Most lawyers recall a day in law school that went something like this: The torts professor is discussing damages for a case, puts a bunch […]
The great frontier lawyer Abraham Lincoln once made the thought-provoking statement that if asked to chop down a tree in six hours, he would spend […]
Does anyone recall the etymology of the “cc” option in our emails? I do. Before the advent of copying machines, initially known ubiquitously as Xerox […]
More than half of businesses were hit by a ransomware attack in 2019, at an estimated total cost of $11.5 billion. That’s per a recent […]
A recent joint report from Lloyd’s of London and KPMG finds that as much of 85 percent of total business value in many industries now […]
What constitutes a privileged communication? This Today’s General Counsel article considers some of the complexities and the light that may be shed on this question […]
A data breach brings with it some of the most difficult calls in-house legal will ever have to make. What happened? How serious is it? […]
As bring-your-own device policies proliferate and digital storage becomes cheaper and more prevalent, it gets easier to pilfer trade secrets. Whether intentional or unintentional, it […]
The Ninth Circuit has issued a decision that for the first time adopted a waiver standard for the work-product doctrine – a standard that is […]
An increasing number of families of employees who have died of Covid-19 are filing lawsuits against employers. The key question in many of these suits […]