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When Emma Nasif was looking for a new job earlier this year, she didn’t go online and search for openings. Instead, motivated by her goal of becoming a general counsel, she did what’s she’s done for every new job: she found and contacted a manager she wanted to work for. “Every role I’ve taken is […]

After 30 years in the business, there’s one concept that still resonates with Stewart Byrne. Simplicity. After all, life with technology should be easier he says To that end, simplifying the customer purchase experience is the focus for Byrne, vice president and regional general counsel for the Americas for the multinational Florida technology company. “Our […]

There are an estimated 3.5 billion people logging on to the internet globally. Of those users, perhaps 60 million use some kind of digital storage for their passwords, likely by saving them at sites they visit or through a browser like Google Chrome. It’s a convenient method, until there’s a hack. Yet who can blame […]

If your college-age daughter told you she planned to spend Christmas in a slum in India as part of her studies, you’d be forgiven some nervous dissuasion. Jamie Cox didn’t simply encourage daughter Ann’s altruistic impulse (and wanderlust); he tagged along for the ride. What he found on the other side, amid cacophony and swirling […]

From self-driving cars to glasses that can translate street signs in foreign countries, technology is evolving in ways that often exceed our ability to grasp it. That presents an unenviable challenge for the thousands of intellectual property (IP) lawyers tasked with protecting the conceptual seeds of those technologies—computer code, proprietary designs, chemical compounds and the […]