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by caffeine5150 8y ago
This is an important point, although I can imagine AI could be trained to spot things that don't belong or are unusual provisions in an NDA. This may be what you're getting at, but it's easy in a contract review to focus on r
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
Ah, thank you for the correction.
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
51-156 minutes is crazy to review an NDA. If an NDA is well drafted, I can do it in about 10 minutes. If it's a bit of a mess, maybe 30 min. If it's worse than that, I can assess that in about 5 minutes and propose using a bett
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
I am a transactional lawyer and I definitely would find value in an application that could issue spot an agreement in seconds. That said, just yesterday I spoke on a panel on the topic of how things can go wrong in a contract. We spent th
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
A negative take on one of Hussman's funds: http://thereformedbroker.com/2017/09/05/when-the-hedge-is-wo...
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
A buddy of mine is a wealth manager. His opinion is that this guy obtained significant ears because he predicted and profited off the '08 crisis, but that overall he's a a bit of a "clown". As linked below, his main f
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
Here is a great article by one of the top EU privacy attorneys out there explaining the interplay of the ePrivacy Directive (which governs use of cookies) and the GDPR, which often get confused. https://privacylawblog.fieldfisher
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
The cookie banners are required by the ePrivacy Directive, not the GDPR or its predecessor, the Data Protection Directive. ePrivacy has been around for years. Directives are EU-wide “directives” to each member state (country) to enact th
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
There is much confusion. Cookies are governed by the ePrivacy Directive, not GDPR. ePrivacy regulates email, phone, text and other communications – not personal data per se. It prohibits setting a third party cookie on a device without f
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
Agreed that the fine for a company like Honda appears very reasonable. My only point is that their behavior was more sloppy than malicious or 'terrible' - and sloppy in a way that many, many companies are sloppy. And this size f
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
Both in how companies are complying and in the public discourse, I’m seeing a jumbling of ‘consent’ and ‘notice’ that doesn’t align with my understanding of the intent and reading of the law. Under the transparency principle (Art. 5) and d
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
I'm an attorney leading (from a legal standpoint) a SaaS provider's GDPR compliance effort. There most definitely is an administrative burden (setting aside whether you think that burden is merited). The SaaS provider is acting
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
A UK privacy attorney I know considered 20k records (individuals) to be large scale. I haven't seen much helpful guidance. The WP29 guidance I've read only gives examples at the very extremes of large and small so not too helpfu
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
You are correct as to a DPO, but if he is, say in the US, and subject to GDPR, he must have an EU Representative, who by all indications would be liable for his violations. That's a significant burden if not a practical impossibility
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
I'm an attorney who's spent the last year or so working on GDPR compliance for a US SaaS provider some of whose clients have EU employees. My understanding is that it's true that EU enforcement is more in the spirit of &quot
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
Agreed. GDPR replaces the current Directive and the various member state laws implementing it. GDPR's requirements are (making up a number) 80% or 90% already required by current laws. It's just that the fines were small. GDPR a
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
If you'd like an explanation of what this is about, check out the IAPP's Privacy Advisor Podcast - March 29 episode interviewing Matthias Matthieson, who heads the IAB. Basically, they realize that tracking things like user conse
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by caffeine5150 8y ago
I started making sourdough out of law school back in the late 90's when I got Nancy Silverton's book on the topic (La Brea Bakery Founder). I baked bread back then, but found it too exacting and inconsistent. I began again years
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by caffeine5150 9y ago
On internships, there are different contexts. One can clerk at a law firm during law school and be paid for it and a starting attorney at a firm is often arguably paid more than they are worth making them akin to an intern (the firm is inv
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by caffeine5150 9y ago
Thanks. Agreed that it's a problem. I was active in leadership in the local bar association and often ran into attorneys straight out of the local law schools (e.g. <6 mos.) who had opened their own practice due to a lack of other
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by caffeine5150 9y ago
I come from a family with several California lawyers (I am a lawyer as well) and see this transition from apprenticeship to law school in my family. My great, great uncle was a lawyer and a judge in a small town in the Bay Area. He never
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by caffeine5150 14y ago
In graduate school, I took a class on evolutionary biology. One of the principles put forth was that women (think cave women) evolved to focus on seeking a mate that provided time and resources because women are more focused on the long-te
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by caffeine5150 14y ago
I know someone whose husband wrote a business leadership book (a crowded category). The book hit the New York Times best seller list for a couple weeks. However, my impression was that he simply paid a publicist (or agent or whatever) who
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by caffeine5150 14y ago
The only thing I'd predict is that Avis will screw up Zipcar in some way. They'll raise prices or make the service worse or both. The major car rental companies for years have been owned by major car manufacturers and, in part, serve as b
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by caffeine5150 14y ago
I think part of it is that groupon got started at a time of peak desperation for retailers. They were desperate to try anything. They may still be desperate, but wiser.
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by caffeine5150 14y ago
I think its a fundamental flaw of the public company ecosystem. Management is driven to have a very short-term, myopic view of shareholder value (i.e. stock price quarter to quarter). This was made much worse by the rise in profile of ana
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by caffeine5150 14y ago
I would qualify this. Note the recent implosion of the law firm Dewey Leboeuf. It grew very large through mergers and by luring lateral hires with multi-million dollar guarantees which it ultimately couldn't support. Many firms have becom
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by caffeine5150 14y ago
I agree that change for change sake is frustrating, but I jumped from Office 2003 to 2010 and a year later I still hate it. It's not just a matter of it being different. It's demonstrably worse. Things that took 1 click now take 3 or mor
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by caffeine5150 14y ago
It seems like there are easy improvements to search by ratings they could make. If I am browsing for a new book, I'd like to be able to search by number of reviews alone. Anything with more than 500 or so reviews is probably worth taking
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by caffeine5150 14y ago
> In most cases large retailers force their vendors to cover the costs of returned merchandise that they can't resell (due to opened packaging etc). Yes, and this can increase costs to the consumer. Cost is cost. It has to be born by

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