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Executing Contracts and Deeds From Home

For a simple contract, executed under English law, it’s relatively simple and electronic signatures are usually valid. However, if the other party is overseas…

Hackers Stage A Data Auction After Company Refuses To Pay Ransom

The starting price was $50,000, and on the block were some 22,000 files and three data bases stolen from a Canadian company that had balked….

Emerging Trends In Covid-Related Litigation And Insurance Coverage

Months into the Covid-19 pandemic, patterns of litigation have emerged in five distinct categories of litigation….

How To Pay A Ransom

You have decided your best option under the circumstances is to pay up. But that decision is far from the last…

Covid Litigation Dog Not Barking

An anticipated surge in litigation blaming companies for exposing workers and consumers to the coronavirus at this point shows no […]

In Celebrity Law Firm Ransom Attack, Hackers Up The Ante, Threaten Trump

New York’s Grubman, Shire, Meiselas & Sacks has been hit with a crippling ransom attack by the hacker group REvil, […]

“Mistakes Will Be Made”: Two Med Mal Firms Pledge No Lawsuits Over Covid Errors

Two Texas law firms with a medical malpractice specialty have pledged not to sue over efforts by healthcare providers in […]

Money Laundering And Anti-Terrorist Risk Management For Lawyers

Although lawyers are not regulated to the extent that bankers are with regard to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) […]

A Warning To Companies About Breach Notification

It’s become common wisdom – gleaned in part from witnessing some disastrous missteps by companies like Yahoo and credit reporting […]

Assessing The Contractual Impacts of COVID-19

How are contract obligations affected in times of extreme uncertainty? This post looks first at the force majeure clause and how it might apply when contract non-performance is the result of supply chain…

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