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Jun 07, 2016

2400 American Clients Revealed in the Panama Papers

The New York Times reported yesterday that at least 2400 U.S. based clients had retained Mossack Fonseca, the law firm

Jun 06, 2016

Podcast: The Panama Papers

Our latest Digital Detectives podcast is now up. We had the pleasure of interviewing Nuix Chief Technology Officer Stephen Stewart

May 19, 2016

SEC Chair: Hackers Are the Greatest Threat to the Financial Sector

ZDNet reported that Mary Jo White, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) told reporters that hackers are the

May 18, 2016

Two New FBI Cybersecurity Alerts Issued for the Legal Sector

They are actually two alerts combined in one e-mail. To quote from the first alert, "KeySweeper is a covert device

May 17, 2016

CaseFleet: A Much Smaller E-Discovery Dictionary

I had a very nice note from Jeff Kerr, the founder and CEO of CaseFleet. He made reference to a

May 16, 2016

New Law Firm Phishing E-mail Cites Referral from an ABA Law Firm

Thanks to Claudia Rast for sending along a phishing e-mail received by her firm purportedly from a company seeking help

May 12, 2016

First BigLaw Firm Will Use Artificial Intelligence in Bankruptcy Practice

This looks like a moment we will all look back upon as the beginning of a major shift in law

May 11, 2016

Watson Morphs Into Sherlock to Take On Cybersecurity

If you are familiar with Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes stories, you know he was, outside of medicine, not

May 10, 2016

Second Round of Panama Papers Released: Americans Identified (updated)

Yesterday, at 2 p.m. Eastern, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released the second batch of the "Panama Papers"

May 09, 2016

ABA Publishes Cyberinsurance Primer

The American Bar Association has just published a cyberinsurance primer entitled Protecting Against Cyber Threats: A Lawyer's Guide to Choosing

May 05, 2016

FISA Court Approved EVERY Surveillance Request in 2015

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has never been accused of being particularly discriminating in approving surveillance requests. But the report

May 04, 2016

EDRM Releases Downloadable Version of E-Discovery Glossary

E-discovery standards organization EDRM has released a 300-plus page PDF glossary of e-discovery terms, a very handy resource – to