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With COVID-19 causing governments to recommend (if not compel) “remote only” or virtual work for businesses across the world, law firms of all sizes need adapt to these changed circumstances.  On one hand, small firms may be able to dynamically adapt and react more easily by the very nature of their smaller size.  However, small firms will often not possess the resources to implement technological changes on a firm-wide scale.

Thank you to Peter Ruby of Goodmans LLP. on an excellent webinar on Recent Cases That Could Impact Your Technology Practice 

Webinar recording and slides can be found on Member Center.

The rapid rise of interest in blockchain is meaning more and more industries are looking for use cases for the technology to improve transparency, efficiency and speed. Yet as developments and uses of the technology increase, legislation is struggling to keep up. At Gowling WLG's roundtable discussing blockchain's impact on the financial services industry earlier this year, it was claimed that "There has been a huge global legislative force to get all derivatives trading onto the same playing field, so the blockchain concept is of enormous interest to that part of financial services."

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The risk of trade secret theft to businesses has increased in recent years, with greater employee mobility between companies, the alarming frequency of targeted data theft attacks, and the explosion of social media and cloud computing. Companies cannot simply react to these real business risks to their data after the data is compromised. By then, it’s too late.