Risk Management

The Austrian Lawyer Who Took On Facebook

Attorney Max Schrems got interested in the privacy issue while attending college as an exchange student at Santa Clara University. […]

Congress, SEC, Moving On Cybersecurity

One of the few bipartisan acts to be introduced in Congress recently is the Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2017-18 (S.536). […]

Yahoo Settlement Underlines Board Vulnerability

The email breach that exposed the personal information of 1.5 billion Yahoo users did not trigger a big drop in […]

Companies Are Backing Off On Drug-Testing

A Gallup poll last October found that 64 percent of Americans favor legalization of pot. That’s the most since Gallup […]

Did Facebook Data Leak Win The Election For Trump?

Cambridge Analytica, the voter-profiling company that assisted the Trump campaign, used personal data from millions of Facebook users. The money […]

If The Rainmaker Is An Abuser

The challenge of dealing with an abusive law firm rainmaker is that rainmakers are in high demand and about as […]

Bringing “Risk” Back To The Playground

A movement is gaining traction among government officials and schools in the UK: Playgrounds are systematically “bringing in risk,” in […]

When Cybersecurity Becomes A Securities Issue

Recent developments in securities class action litigation, and the related issue of the newly articulated SEC disclosure requirements vis a vis cybersecurity…

Employer Victories In Recent FCRA Class Actions

The Fair Credit Reporting Act addresses the use of background checks by employers. It requires that before getting a background report, the employer must get the subject’s authorization and before…..

Privilege Lost For “Underlying Documents” When Report Is Made Public

When a school board released a lawyer’s report about alleged sexual assaults by members of a high school basketball team, it had no desire to release the interviews and communications that…

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