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The social media giant alleges India is wrongly using an IT law and a new portal to ‘facilitate’ censorship of information in India.

       

Investors had argued that the bank and its top brass should have known that it lacked the controls necessary to prevent the $17.7 billion sale, as that issue spun out of the bank’s well-known loss of filing privileges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. But U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman was skeptical that executives who knew of the lost privileges would have known the bank lacked the controls to cope.

       

A new Association of Corporate Counsel survey found that 38% of legal chiefs have a cybersecurity leadership role—up from 15% in 2020.

       

“I don’t think there’s a firm in Big Law that is not talking about this today,” noted one consultant.

       

Big Law remains silent, but some at smaller firms are raising their voices. “I am concerned about a government where one person is an authoritarian figure and Congress is silent and the courts are marginalized or threatened with impeachment when they rule on the lawfulness of government action,” said Keker Van Nest & Peters partner Elliot Peters.

       

The EEOC asked about law firms’ relationships with Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity in each of the 20 letters to law firms this month.