The Datakos Blawg

This blawg shares perspectives and collects news on developments in corporate governance, compliance and ethics, records management policy development and litigation management. We also publish ideas involving law firm/corporate law department relations and client relationship management in general.

Author: Rick Wolf is the founder of West Orange, N.J.-based Lexakos, a legal business consulting group specializing in compliance and ethics program management, records management policy deployment, and business conflict resolution. Wolf is also vice chair of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice's corporate counsel committee.

Blawg Related Categories: Corporate Law • Corporate Compliance • In-house Counsel • Legal Ethics • Consultant • Solo / Small Firm

Recent Posts from The Datakos Blawg

Whither Cloud Computing?
If you’ve heard of cloud computing and all the security issues that surround it, and if you’re wondering if you should trust the security of your sensitive and confidential data to a third party service…
Protecting Privilege — New Rule 502 mitigates the risk of inadvertent e-discovery disclosures
By Michael Kozubek Published in the 2/1/2009 Issue of Inside Counsel. Privilege review has been a major culprit in the skyrocketing cost of e-discovery. With hundreds of thousands of documents subject to discovery in numerous cases,…
CVS Pays $2.25 Million and Toughens Practices to Settle HIPAA Privacy Case
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Trade Commission today announced that CVS, the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain, will pay the U.S. government a $2.25 million settlement and take corrective…
Feds Set Sights on ‘Gatekeepers’ in Fraud Investigations
Joe Palazzolo Legal Times Federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday they are targeting lawyers, mortgage brokers, real estate brokers and other “gatekeepers” who perpetrated fraud that contributed to the current economic crisis — a clear…
Tough Times for Corporate Legal Departments
Lexakos asked law department leaders again about their concerns, priorities and resource allocation plans for 2009. This year’s benchmarking survey covers reporting metrics, outsource planning for IP and litigation, budget pressures, e-discovery, privilege waiver management…
New Data Breach, Privacy Bills in Congress
Richard Adhikari One year after trying unsuccessfully to introduce legislation on data breaches and protection of individual privacy, California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is trying again. This week, she introduced Bills S.139, the Notification of…
Kill the Billable Hour? A British Response
As much as the legal sector experiences a change in momentum, such a change seems to be occurring now. Last week, The Am Law Daily picked up on a piece penned by Cravath, Swaine &…
A Mark to Market Rule for Lawsuits?
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has proposed a new standard for public disclosure of pending lawsuits. This raises interesting legal technology and management questions for general counsels. Reporting Rights in the January 2009 issue…
E-Discovery Trends in 2009 — New developments in e-discovery will affect enterprise general counsel and compliance officers, law firms serving corporate clients, and IT departments
By Christine Taylor, January 9, 2008, 12:10 PM A few years ago, the Taneja Group coined the term “Information Classification and Management” (ICM) to describe the technology of locating and classifying data throughout the enterprise.…
E-Discovery Requirements Are About to Hit Canadian Firms
As Canadian firms brace for new e-discovery rules, they can look to their U.S. counterparts for technology lessons. By Anne Rawland Gabriel Time is growing short for Canadian securities firms to prepare for the scheduled…