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Justia Legal Resources: Banking and Finance Law Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Sam Bankman-Fried had founded cryptocurrency exchange FTX in 2019 and served as its CEO, despite allegedly knowing nothing about cryptocurrency at the time. The Banking and Finance Law Center at Justia provides a detailed discussion of cryptocurrency and the legal concerns that it implicates. These are often called “blue sky” laws.

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Ex-Officials Fret Hacked Firms, Fearing Legal Liability, Will Keep Law Enforcement in Dark

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Twenty former federal law enforcement and national security officials filed an amicus brief in the SEC’s fraud lawsuit against the IT company SolarWinds, which was hit by a massive 2019-2020 breach.

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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

by guest blogger Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law A Web Scraper Beats a Platform: The Same Story, but Different It seems like we’ve been here before, and not that long ago. It lost for two reasons: one grounded in contract law and the other external. Can a breach of contract claim be equivalent to copyright?

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Pandemic-Related Legal Ethics Opinions: A Compendium

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District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law, Opinion 24-20 (March 23, 2020). Synopsis: Working from home has become the new normal, forcing law offices to transform themselves into a remote workforce overnight. (These are organized by opinion date.). Issues addressed: Working out of state.

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SixFifty.com: Employment Law Disrupter

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Examples of employment law forms include state-specific employment contracts, employment manuals, independent contractor agreements, privacy solutions, and return-to-work policies. probably the leading law firm in Silicon Valley and one of the top law firms in the world.

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Guest Post: David the Inventor vs. the Biglaw Goliath – What Drives A Goliath To Take On A David?

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As I reported here in November , the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has sued Xcential for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and other causes of action. The cut-and-bite style has always been a challenge for federal drafters. This is Stodder’s perspective on the lawsuit. Legislative Automation.

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What Are the Legal Issues Surrounding Deep Fakes?

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Here are some examples of harmful deep fake usage: In 2019, an energy firm in the U.K. In June 2019, a deep fake video of Mark Zuckerberg was posted to Instagram in which the “fake” CEO claimed how “great” it was to have billions of people’s data. State Law Several states have passed laws to limit the harmful effects of deep fakes.