Tech Law Talks

Andreas Splittgerber and Aselle Ibraimova discuss the recent decisions by EU data protection authorities and courts in the EU that are affecting the use of analytics cookies on websites. They explore why website operators are being told to stop the use of analytics cookies and what can be done to overcome the issues.

Reed Smith lawyers Sarah Bruno, Cynthia O'Donoghue, and Jordan Tanoury discuss issues that may arise when onboarding and negotiating with artificial intelligence providers, and why it is possible to negotiate mutually beneficial contracts.

Anthony Diana and Kile Marks join John Holliday from Lighthouse for a discussion about the downstream e-discovery considerations of Teams Chats. Topics include expanded Chat functionality (memes, giphy’s, etc.), challenges associated with threading of Chats, and how persistence of Chats threads affects review and production of relevant content.  

Anthony Diana and Therese Craparo join John Collins from Lighthouse to dive into the issues and e-discovery challenges related to Teams A/V, such as controls of audio/video conferencing capabilities, identification of attendees, recordings, whiteboards, shared notes and all the various features available today or beyond.

Lighthouse’s Damian Murphy joins Reed Smith’s Anthony Diana and TJ Satnick to discuss the differences between an Exchange mailbox and a new Exchange Online mailbox, new artifacts stored in Exchange Online, and new e-discovery challenges that those differences create.

The Metaverse poses cutting-edge issues for IP owners and users that do not fit neatly into traditional legal principles developed for the pre-metaverse world. Partner Christine Morgan and associate DJ Cespedes explore these challenges and how the explosion of new rights will present opportunities and challenges for owners and users of IP in the Metaverse.

Reed Smith’s Anthony Diana and Catherine Castaldo join Damian Murphy of Lighthouse to discuss the importance of privacy in Teams sites/channels, best practices for implementation, considerations for geographic location of Teams sites/channels data, and options for barriers to create privacy-compliant Teams sites/channels. 

Lighthouse’s John Collins joins Reed Smith’s Anthony Diana and TJ Satnick to discuss applying lifecycle management of Teams sites and channels for improved governance. They also share best practices for establishing the framework for certification, archiving and deletion.

Join Reed Smith’s Sarah Bruno and Jason Gordon for a discussion on non-fungible tokens and an overview of the use and sale of NFTs. They describe how NFTs generate legal considerations in areas such as intellectual property, copyright, privacy, post-mortem rights and right of publicity.

Reed Smith’s Anthony Diana and Therese Craparo, with special guest John Collins of Lighthouse, share practical considerations on provisioning and ownership of Teams sites and channels to achieve improved governance and risk management. 

This session is one of our M365 in 5 series, which discusses compliance and governance in M365.