Podcast looks at law firms and cryptocurrency

November 26, 2019

LEGAL TALK NETWORK — Jared Correia and Felix Shipkevich give listeners a primer on this topic and discuss the latest developments in the cryptocurrency space.

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UC Irvine Law students help establish new California State Senate committee on artificial intelligence

November 26, 2019

UCI LAW — In spring 2019, UCI Law students enrolled in “The AI Frontier: Disrupting Legal Services” successfully created and introduced a new California State Senate Select Committee on the Growing Impact of Artificial Intelligence. Members of the commitee held a hearing on the impact of artificial intelligence in law enforcement at the Anaheim City Hall Council Chambers. UCI

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Cardozo Law hosts discussion on copyright infringement lawsuits

November 26, 2019

CARDOZO LAW — Cardozo alumni and intellectual property (IP) experts discussed the latest in copyright infringement at the Entertainment Law Initiative panel: “Protector or Suppressor?” hosted by the Recording Academy and the FAME Center. The event was co-sponsored by the Cardozo Entertainment Law Society.

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Georgetown Law hosts conference on privacy law issues

November 26, 2019

GEORGETOWN LAW — On Thursday, November 21, and Friday, November 22, Georgetown Law’s Office of Executive and Continuing Legal Education will host a two-day conference, the 16th Annual Advanced eDiscovery Institute, at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel. Georgetown Law’s 16th Annual Advanced eDiscovery Institute will feature a large array of federal judges and eDiscovery thought leaders,

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Temple Law Center for Compliance and Ethics hosts roundtable connecting SEC professionals with industry experts

November 25, 2019

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW — Temple Law School’s Center for Compliance and Ethics played host to a gathering of compliance officers, private practitioners, and in-house counsel at a roundtable with SEC leadership Stephanie Avakian LAW ’95, Co-Director of the Division of Enforcement, and Jeffrey Boujoukos LAW ’92, Director of the Philadelphia regional office. Advances in

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Report finds diversity in legal tech community improving slowly

November 19, 2019

ABA LEGAL REBELS —  Sonday’s findings were stark. The report showed that women and people of color make up 13.8% and 26.5% of legal tech company founders, respectively. According to the most recent U.S. Census, women make up 50.8% of the U.S. and the minority population—that is everyone who does not identify as white alone, including

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California Western Law professor Tabrez Ebrahim discusses how technology is changing law

November 19, 2019

CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW — Ebrahim’s article focuses on 3D printing and AI technologies and their doctrinal disruptions through a two-by-two conceptual matrix formulation. That matrix demonstrates that patent law and copyright law definitions, scope, and standards should be evaluated in multiple domains, such as: (1) non-human in digital domain; (2) human in digital domain;

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Fordham Law hosts blockchain symposium

November 18, 2019

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — At the Fordham Law Blockchain Regulatory Symposium, Wyoming announced the first-ever opt-in custody rules regarding  its “blockchain banks.”

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Amazon VP Ardine Williams speaks at George Mason Scalia Law symposium

November 18, 2019

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY ANTONIN SCALIA LAW SCHOOL — Ardine Williams, vice president of HQ2 workforce development and Amazon’s advocate for children playing with robots as a means of turning them into tech-savvy workers, tackled the gig economy in a talk Friday. It’s less about the work-for-hire model and more about the government’s inability to keep pace

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Georgetown Law hosts conference on public surveillance

November 18, 2019

GEORGETOWN LAW — Gorgetown Law’s fourth conference on “The Color of Surveillance” on November 7. Past conferences have explored the government surveillance of African Americans, America’s religious minorities and immigrants; this year’s conference looked at the monitoring of poor and working people. The event was hosted by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology, with

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