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The big bang for alternative legal services providers
February 21st, 2018
Will 2018 be the ‘big-bang’ year for the use of Alternative Legal Services providers, asks PwC’s Peter Workman? The current legal and regulatory environment is burdensome. General counsel and their legal teams are under ever increasing pressure to reduce legal ...
Facebook personal data use and privacy settings ruled illegal by German court
February 15th, 2018
Facebook’s default privacy settings and use of personal data are against German consumer law, according to a judgement handed down by a Berlin regional court. The court found that Facebook collects and uses personal data without providing enough information ...
Facebook has a giant, Europe-sized legal problem
December 28th, 2017
Europe continues to be a giant pain in Facebook’s app. Germany and France this week both hammered Facebook for its data practices, though in different ways. Germany’s competition regulator declared on Monday that Facebook is using its dominance in ...
Google faces mass legal action over ‘unlawful’ data collection
December 4th, 2017
A UK Campaign group is taking Google to court in a £1 billion mass action alleging the tech giant unlawfully collected information from Apple’s iPhone handsets. The group, Google you owe us, is led by former Which director Richard ...
Web Shield & iSignthis to deliver unified legal entity & UBO KYC
October 19th, 2017
Highlights: Web Shield’s Know Your Customer Corporate/Business (KYCB) InvestiGate Platform to feature Know Your Customer (KYC) for individual UBO’s, PSC’s and Directors iSignthis Service to be enabled for all Web Shield customers globally from Nov 2017 Web shield will ...
World’s ‘most influential legal thinker’ steps down
September 6th, 2017
A witty US judge, who spearheaded a revolution in the economic analysis of law, has retired from the bench. One of the US’s leading appellate judges, described as the world’s most influential thinker over the last 50 years, has ...
Yahoo automates legal operations to save time and reduce cost
August 23rd, 2017
Yahoo’s move to automate thousands of workflows and process saw the company turn to ThinkSmart. Paul Hirner, CEO, ThinkSmart discusses the journey. As an enterprise grows, so do the demands on its legal team and the inefficiencies, costs and ...
UK Outlines Approach to Cross-Border Legal Disputes Post-Brexit
August 22nd, 2017
Britain will outline ways on Tuesday to resolve cross-border civil disputes with the European Union after Brexit, adding to a list of proposals for future ties to try to nudge talks forward with the bloc. In the third of ...
Patents shoot up for new legal services technology
August 17th, 2017
Law firms and legal services technology companies are behind the growth of patents in the legal marketplace with the US leading the way. According to Thomson Reuters, 579 patents relating to new legal services technology were filed worldwide in ...
The European Central Bank faces a legal challenge
August 16th, 2017
The European Central Bank may be violating laws on monetary financing in its 2.3 trillion euro ($2.7 trillion) asset purchase programme, Germany’s constitutional court said on Tuesday, and it asked Europe’s top court to make a ruling. In the ...
