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Strategies to Manage Legal Risks & Designing an Effective Risk Management Framework

If there is one constant that all businesses face throughout their life cycle, it would be managing legal risk exposures. Given the unique nature of information technology (IT) businesses, legal risk exposures can be particularly accentuated. The need to evolve a sound and proactive legal risk management framework as part of the enterprise’s legal strategy is becoming an imperative. A sound legal risk management framework should provide a seamless integration of legal contents or guidance with an IT-driven workflow process. Here expert systems can play an important role in the design of such legal risk management systems. Zaid Hamzah, CEO, Lexfutura (Global) and Managing Director, I-Knowledge Technologies, Singapore, provides a road map….

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The Cookie Monster?

Whilst the future of the edible cookie will be assured by hungry adults, children and characters from Sesame Street, the same cannot be said for its electronic namesake. The debate surrounding the use of cookies continues to be a point of contention between business, government and civil rights movements. Garry Mackay and Mark Lomas of Bevan Ashford review the position….

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Expert Determination – A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?

Those who have dealt with a failed systems development project know that the complex legal and factual issues that arise represent a veritable ‘dripping roast’ for dispute lawyers. Coupled with the advent of the new Civil Procedure Rules in 1999, it is little wonder that dispute resolution clauses in IT contracts have become ever more prescriptive. We now often find disputes being categorised into technical, legal or commercial issues and to each is then applied an escalating range of medicines, from meetings between executives, to mediation, litigation or more and more frequently expert determination. Tim Toomey of v-lex questions this extended use of expert determination….

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ASP – What’s It All About?

ASPs have been around for a couple of years now. However, reactions to the concept have been mixed and opinion as to its efficacy and worth is still divided. Much of the opinion appearing in the press has in fact been quite negative. But does it really deserve such scorn and can it be written off so easily? Doug McLachlan of Axxia looks at the merits and demerits….

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