Month: March 2016

By Christopher C. Taintor, Esq.  Medical Privacy: A Balance of Competing Interests   In today’s world, privacy and safety, two values important to all of us, are increasingly in tension.  One need only read the news to see examples, the most recent of which is the battle between the Federal Government and Apple over access to...

By Adrian P. Kendall, Esq.  Three months after the European Court of Justice struck down the US-EU “Safe Harbor” agreement in the case Maximilian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner (C-362- 14), the EU and the USA announced in early February that they have agreed to a successor data protection regime. In the words of the...

By Adrian Kendall, Esq.  What can a lawyer learn from Heavy Metal band Metallica? When it comes to intellectual property protection and client relations, the answer is plenty.  On December 30, 2015, an IP lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to the members of Sandman, a Canadian Metallica tribute band, demanding that the band...