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Inforrm's Blog
Privacy isn’t dead: it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient – Sandra Matz
By INFORRM
“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of…
In-House Ops
Legal Ops Redefined: Connie Brenton & Jeff Franke on Data, Development, and Strategic Leadership
Legal operations is no longer just a support function — it is a platform for strategic leadership. LegalOps.com co-founders Connie Brenton and Jeffrey Franke share their framework for the future:…
Your ERISA Watch
State-Law Claims for Lifetime Disability Benefits Survive While ERISA Claims Are Dismissed
Thompson v. Oracle Corp., No. 4:21-cv-00026-YGR, 2021 WL 5865519 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 10, 2021) (Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers). When Elisa Thompson went to work for Sun Microsystems, she specifically negotiated…
@theBar
Google v. Oracle – The Monumental Copyright Case that the Supreme Court Got Wrong
Post Authored by Natalie Elizaroff It’s officially a loss for the little guys. Big Corp wins again. Counsel for Oracle summarized it best: “The Google platform just got bigger and…
Legal Evolution
Special guest post by Bill Mooz (147)
Today's featured post (148) is authored by Bill Mooz, Co-Founder and Interim Executive Director of IFLP and a senior-level legal professional with remarkable breadth and depth of experience, including a clerkship…
The Right Coast
Encryption Is the Key | RealClearPolitics
In January 1997, at Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, Calif., an ad-hoc group of privacy experts, industry officers, and academics began to study the problem. The fruit of their labor…
Wage & Hour Law Update
Commissioned Sales Employee Not Entitled To Commission Payment Under The Plain Language Of Incentive Compensation Plan
This blog has stressed (most recently here and here) the importance of carefully drafting incentive compensations plans to avoid unintentionally converting incentive compensation into earned “wages” protected under state law. …
ContractsProf Blog
An Early Win for Hewlett-Packard in Its Battle with Oracle
For three decades Oracle and Hewlett-Packard (“HP”) worked together, with HP selling its hardware and Oracle selling its software, to their shared customers and the two corporations cooperating to make…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Tipping lawyer gets record long insider trading sentence
Main June 4, 2012Tipping lawyer gets record long insider trading sentenceAs reported in this AP article, federal prosecutors notched another record white-collar sentence today in federal court in New Jersey.…
The Venture Alley
The Venture Spotlight: Kate Matsudaira, SEOmoz
By DLA Piper
"I would routinely get in trouble for dismantling things like clocks and radios."