The Cares of In-House Counsel

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The Cares of In-House Counsel


The latest annual survey of chief legal officers by the Association of Corporate Counsel, which came out last month, provides interesting insight into the topics that keep in-house counsel on their toes.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, data breaches and protection of corporate data made the list – with more than a quarter of the respondents reporting that their companies had experienced troubling (and expensive) data breaches in the last two years. (For more on data security news, read our sister blog, Eyes on Ecom Law)

Litigation and class actions also make the list of concerns, but intellectual property disputes evidently warrant a separate and additional category of concern – perhaps regrettably indicating that, as Mark Twain might have put it, the rumors of the death of patent troll litigation may have been greatly exaggerated.

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