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All Eyes on You: Digital Privacy and Your Devices

  • June 12, 2019
  • Steven Threndyle

Who is following in the electronic footprints that our fitness tracker, smartwatch, cellphone and computer activity leave behind? Privacy law experts examine the legal protections and pitfalls around personal data.

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The Risky Business of Document Sharing

  • June 06, 2019
  • Michael Sauber

The most common methods of sharing documents with clients, opposing firms, and others may be placing you and your firm at risk. To protect confidentiality, today’s technology offers much more secure ways to exchange documents.

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At a Crossroads on Solitary Confinement

  • June 05, 2019
  • Michael Rosenberg

This year’s recipient of the OBA's Heather McArthur Memorial Young Lawyers Award offers an insider’s view of a concerted constitutional challenge aimed at ending an inhumane practice in our prisons.

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Lawyers Are Service Providers, and We Have Human Rights Obligations Too

  • March 14, 2019
  • Richa Sandill

Lawyers play a critical role as advocates in ensuring that equality, fairness, and the principles of human rights are upheld in society as a whole. Yet beyond fighting for human rights, has anyone ever really stopped to think about lawyers’ own obligations under the Human Rights Code?