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Justia Legal Resources: Banking and Finance Law Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Sam Bankman-Fried had founded cryptocurrency exchange FTX in 2019 and served as its CEO, despite allegedly knowing nothing about cryptocurrency at the time. The discussion of bank lending in the Banking and Finance Law Center describes some of the main federal laws that govern this area.

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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

First, the court held that the damages X incurred (primarily the loss of advertisers after CCDH published negative reports using scraped data) were unforeseeable when the ToS were agreed upon in 2019. The pertinent question should not be whether contracts mimic copyright, but whether they undermine the policies underlying copyright law.

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Ex-Officials Fret Hacked Firms, Fearing Legal Liability, Will Keep Law Enforcement in Dark

Legal Tech Monitor

Twenty former federal law enforcement and national security officials filed an amicus brief in the SEC’s fraud lawsuit against the IT company SolarWinds, which was hit by a massive 2019-2020 breach.

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Pandemic-Related Legal Ethics Opinions: A Compendium

LawSites

This practice may include the law of their licensing jurisdiction or other law as permitted by ABA Model Rule 5.5(c) c) or (d), including, for instance, temporary practice involving other states’ or federal laws. Florida Advisory Opinion FAO #2019-4 (May 20, 2021). Issues addressed: Working out of state.

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What Are the Legal Issues Surrounding Deep Fakes?

Martindale-Avvo

Here are some examples of harmful deep fake usage: In 2019, an energy firm in the U.K. In June 2019, a deep fake video of Mark Zuckerberg was posted to Instagram in which the “fake” CEO claimed how “great” it was to have billions of people’s data. Federal Law No federal law currently exists that addresses deep fakes.

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Guest Post: David the Inventor vs. the Biglaw Goliath – What Drives A Goliath To Take On A David?

LawSites

The details and the arguments from both sides are publicly available and have been covered by the National Law Journal , the legal tech media and, most recently, experts in the patent world. Dreaming up such an efficient solution is one thing; writing the code to enable it was much more challenging, but in 2019 Vergottini did it.

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SixFifty.com: Employment Law Disrupter

The Law Product Makers blog

SixFifty is led by Kimball Dean Parker , 37, who comes to the role of CEO from the LawX Lab at BYU Law School , of which he still remains as Director. He was recognized by the ABA Journal as a Legal Rebel in 2019. Previously Parker developed and founded CO/COUNSEL, a legal education and crowdsourcing website.

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