One hundred seventy-five Americans die each day as a result of opioid addiction, according to recent data from the National Center for Health Statistics. What’s more, of the 23.5 million people in need of opioid addiction treatment, only 11 percent can access it, says John Rosenthal, co-founder and chairman of the Police Assisted Addiction Recovery …
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Fighting Violent Crime: What Does Data Have to Do With It? IACP 2017 Panel
It was a quiet morning in Philadelphia at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) 2017 Conference. Just yesterday, police and protesters clashed outside the convention hall, where thousands of law enforcement professionals from across the globe will meet this week to discuss, among other things, how to improve how law enforcement officers work …
ACCAM17 Panel – What Technology Should Your Legal Department Deploy Now?
What is your problem? Maybe the question should be what “are” your problems? At the 2017 Association of Corporation Counsel (ACC) annual meeting, a session focused on helping smaller legal departments look at what, where, when and how to deploy existing technologies to address their pain points. A survey of the attendees prior to …
ACCAM17 – How much and where does AI fit within compliance and litigation?
“I am not in the business of predicting the future, but in the business of making the future,” said Khalid Al-Kofahi, vice president, Research and Development at Thomson Reuters, as part of a panel at the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) annual meeting discussing artificial intelligence (AI) and its influence in the legal profession. …
ACCAM17 Panel – The Emerging Law and Public Policy of Self-Driving Cars
Most of us have seen and maybe even envied the use of self-driving cars in movies or television shows ranging from the Batmobile in Batman, Herbie, I, Robot and K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider. At the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting, one panel took a look the emerging laws and public policy surrounding …
ACCAM17 Keynote – Blockchain: More Opportunity Than Digital Payments
As traditional models of success are evolving in nearly every sector of industry, Don Tapsoctt, CEO of the Tapscott Group, opened the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting with a discussion centered on blockchain. Tapscott has authored more than 15 books including Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Paradigm Shift and his most …
Mitchell & Mitchell on Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 19: Continuing Impact of 2017 “Repeal and Replace” Efforts
This is Part 19 in an ongoing series regarding changes in health care that may take place—and actual changes that do take place—with the Trump administration. The likely implementation issues to be encountered for both potential and actual changes are described, based on detailed methods of analysis. The emphasis is on what these shifts mean …
Dangers of Public Wi-Fi
Free wi-fi is widely available and tempting to use, especially when traveling. Hotels, airports, coffee shops, even NYC subway stations provide it. But the dangers of public wi-fi are many-fold. Not only are they hunting grounds for hackers, but a new report from security firm FireEye claims a Russian hacker group known as APT28, or …
Emoji Law: The Evils of Emojis
Emojis are cute, fun…and can get you in a whole lot of legal trouble. “Emoji law” is increasingly a factor in e-discovery, particularly in labor and employment cases such as sexual harassment and discrimination. Jay Holland, chair of labor and employment at Joseph Greenwald, says it has gotten to the point where employment attorneys should …
Corporate Legal Department Operations Forum 2017 – Insights from Josh Kubicki
The investment by each party into the law firm-client relationship is imperative to its success and legal department operations professionals understand there is a need for additional business rigor between the firm and the business. Josh Kubicki, chief strategy officer at Seyfarth Shaw, discusses this landscape and concepts from the panel “Examining Innovation in the …
