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Legal Operations Pioneer Profile: Suzanne Hawkins

By An Trotter, Senior Director of Operations, Office of the General Counsel, Hearst

Suzanne Hawkins has seen legal operations from every angle, as a practicing attorney, legal operations head, consultant, and law firm leader. An Trotter, Senior Director of Operations, Office of the General Counsel, Hearst, had the good fortune to speak with Suzanne about her career and get her insights on the emergence and evolution of legal operations. Click here to read the full article.

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Sample Litigation Hold Memo

This resource is a sample litigation hold memorandum in which a company's legal department instructs certain employees to preserve documents and electronically stored information (ESI) in connection with a litigation matter.

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Summary Outline of SEC’s Proposed Rule on Climate-Related Disclosure and Accounting

By Kevin A. Ewing, Partner, Troy L. Harder, Partner, Charles H. Still, Jr., Partner, and Nathan Guerra, Associate, Bracewell LLP

This article discusses the SEC’s proposed rule on climate-related risks includes amendments to both the financial reporting requirements (Reg S-X) and the narrative disclosure requirements (Reg S-K). The proposal interlinks the new requirements, drawing aspects of the required narrative disclosures into the financial statement.

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More Wiggle Room for White Hat Hackers

By Seth D. DuCharme, Partner and Anissa L. Adas, Associate, Bracewell LLP

On May 19, 2022, the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced significant clarifications to its policy on charging Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) violations that give some comfort to cyber security consultants who engage in network testing and related operations. Such activity has long been a gray area for “white hat” hackers.

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Questions Remain After Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split Over Discovery in Arbitration Under 28 U.S.C. § 1782

By Rachel B. Goldman, Partner, David A. Shargel, Partner, and David J. Ball, Partner, Bracewell LLP

On June 13, 2022, the US Supreme Court resolved a long-standing circuit split holding that broad U.S.-style discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 is not available in private foreign arbitrations. In the past decade, litigants in international arbitrations had been trying to use section 1782 more frequently to obtain comprehensive discovery that would otherwise typically be unavailable in arbitration abroad. While the Supreme Court has ostensibly put an end to that practice, the possibility of further litigation over section 1782 remains, as parties are likely to test the boundaries of the Supreme Court’s decision.

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