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This article covers several major considerations for when you respond to data requests and how to ensure that data privacy violations do not occur.

In the area of mergers and acquisitions, trade secrets can provide unique challenges to the due diligence team evaluating the target company. Regardless of whether a target company has strategically and formally protected these assets, trade secrets are an inevitable part of the sale or purchase of any company, big or small.

This article offers in-house counsel a crash-course in data-security regulation and litigation, focusing on the liabilities stemming from the disclosure of customers’ personally identifying information (PII). We will conclude by examining some key takeaways to help your company minimize its data-security litigation risk.

Familiarity with open source software and its copyright implications will help you protect your company from liability and enable it to make more informed decisions.

For Eliza, becoming a lawyer was a natural choice.

In our industry we have many top challenges, from complex space vehicle programs, to business growth to volume of work. One of our greatest challenges, among these, is the drive to increase diversity and inclusiveness in the aerospace and defense industry, and especially in the practice of law.

What I like most about being in-house is working closely with my clients, not only on their legal issues and challenges, but also their business challenges, opportunities and strategies.

If you know people who are new to in-house or have new roles in their companies and are not ACC members, do them a favor and encourage them to join ACC.

Our law firms need to be more efficient, tech savvy, innovative, process-oriented, cost-effective, pro-active… and other vague adjectives. What do those things actually look like? Would we know it if we saw it? Would we reward it if we found it?

Like many organizations, the Fieldfisher privacy and information team is monitoring the progress of the legislative changes, and we are cautious of recommending any significant preparatory steps until the exact make-up of the final rules are better understood (hopefully in early 2016).