Risk Management

The Lawyer Who Gave Sexual Harassment Its Name

A look back at the career and contribution of lawyer and legal scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon, whose 1979 book…

#TimesUp

“It’s time to ensure that your company has a strong policy prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace and that the […]

Mesh Litigation Conspiracy Alleged

According to a New York Times investigative article, an “assembly-line-like system” involving plaintiff attorneys, litigation funders, banks, physicians and marketers is […]

17 Percent Of EEOC Sexual Harassment Complainants Are Male

In a recent CNN poll, ten percent of men reported they had been victims of sexual harassment at work. The […]

White Hats & “Vulnerability Scans” Touted As Security Ploys

A close look at a cyber-liability lawsuit that targets a law firm that did not, to anyone’s knowledge, actually suffer a breach, with some recommendation for….

China Stole This U.S. Company’s IP The Old-Fashioned Way

The Chinese wind turbine company Sinovel managed to come up with some software that had been developed by a U.S.-based […]

Insurers Keep Wary Eye On School Kids’ Climate Lawsuit

Most industry observers are not paying much attention to a climate lawsuit in Oregon, where 21 teen-age students are suing […]

Does Your D&O Policy Cover Cyber Breach?

With the emergence of cyber-breach risk, there is a whole new category of liability for company directors and officers. It’s […]

Fallout From Trump’s Affairs: The End Of The Nondisclosure Agreement?

Two women – adult film actress/director Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, and Playboy model Karen McDougal – say they had […]

The End Of “Regulatory Exceptionalism” For Silicon Valley

Regulators seemed to accept what  John Perry Barlow proclaimed in his widely quoted Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, in 1996: “Governments […]

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