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Humanizing the Corporation
Jurors are real people – they have kids, they have jobs, they coach little league, they go to church. Real people like people they can identify with. Real people like people they can trust. And real...
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Are Your Foreign Clients Blowing Attorney-Client And Work Product Protections?
At a time where business is increasingly global and borderless, foreign clients may be laying the tracks for a very unfortunate situation if litigation in the United States strikes. I’m talking about...
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The “Apex Doctrine” Revisited
One issue we at the Monitor have tracked is the application of the “apex doctrine,” which protects corporate executives from deposition. See my prior post on this subject here. First, a quick...
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Volvo’s Bold Stance When It Comes To Liability For “Self-Driving” Cars
It’s no secret that the “race is on” among auto manufacturers to develop truly “self-driving” or “autonomous” cars. Simply visit your local dealer’s showroom and you’ll see that many vehicles already...
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We began our investigation into the intersection of cybersecurity (or insecurity) and products liability last December in a post that highlighted vulnerabilities to malicious or unintentional...
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Cybersecurity Becomes Law
During the 2013 holiday season, retailers were targeted in some of the largest cyber attacks on record, compromising tens of millions of consumer payment card numbers. This holiday season—Friday...
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Cybersecurity: End of Year Update
The final month of the year is a time both to reflect on the past and to plan for the future. This is particularly true in the context of the intersection between cybersecurity and products liability....
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The Future is Now: NHTSA Proposes Rule Requiring Cars to “Talk” to Each Other
Even just a decade ago, this might have sounded like the work of science fiction–cars “talking” to other cars in a way that would prevent–or reduce the severity of–a significant percentage of...
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Cybersecurity and the Economic Loss Doctrine
Just before the holidays we provided an end of year update on the intersection between cybersecurity and the law. See here. In the first month of 2017, the Eleventh Circuit has already ruled on a...
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Self-Driving Car Accident Headlines Show Technology’s Uphill Battle
As loyal followers of our blog may have seen, I often write about “autonomous” or so-called “self-driving” cars and their legal implications. For a couple of recent examples, please see here and here....
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CPSC Adopts New Standard for Infant Bath Tubs
As part of its mandate to issue consumer product safety standards for durable infant or toddler products under The Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act, section 104 of the Consumer...
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Office Workers (and Employers) Take Note: Sitting At Your Desk May Kill You
If you’re reading this headline at your desk, I’m sorry to share some bad news: a recent study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that adults who are inactive for longs periods of time during the...
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Update: Self-Driving Cars Are Coming To The Big Apple
Fans of Weil’s Product Liability Monitor know that we keep a close eye on developments relating to autonomous, a.k.a. “self-driving,” vehicles. In June, I wrote about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s...
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