Legal News Roundup: August 5th, 2016

5 August, 2016

Let’s take a look at this week in legal news. Pants and Christ Wu Liangshu, BBC You know it’s going to be a weird week when the first stories you read are about pants – more specifically, the lack thereof. Firstly, a defendant appeared in a Louisville, Kentucky court without any pants on. Judg...

Legal News Roundup: July 29th, 2016

29 July, 2016

Let’s take a look at this week in legal news. Reagan Shooter To Be Released Failed assassin John Warnock Hinckley Jr is set to be released on August fifth, thirty-five years after he attempted to kill U.S. President Ronald Reagan. District Judge Paul Friedman of the District of Columbia ruled ...

The science of victim-blaming and how attorneys can fight back

29 July, 2016

Last month a former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was given a light jail sentence for sexual assault of an unconscious woman. A couple weeks ago, two black men – Alton Sterling and Philando Castile– were fatally shot by police, the first while immobilized and the second during a traffic ...

The American Arbitration Crisis: Mandating Injustice

22 July, 2016

At the same time that the Supreme Court is upholding all-things-arbitration, buckets of evidence are surfacing about the arbitration system’s mind-boggling failures. State judges admit to backing the Supreme Court’s decisions only while holding their noses, while consumer advocate groups whip up pub...

Kidnapped Computers: The Virus Wrecking Law Firms

15 July, 2016

While journalists are calling 2016 the “Year of Ransomware,” more and more users are blindsided by that stomach-lurching pop-up note announcing that every file on your computer is now encrypted and held for ransom. This post explains what ransomware is, why cybercriminals are targeting law firms, an...

How Laywers Can Thrive in the New Economy

8 July, 2016

From the consumer’s perspective, the Law has been a respected and feared pillar of society. Lawyers, judges and legal workers have stood as the gatekeepers to the Law’s exclusive domain, the purveyors of a mysterious and powerful knowledge. Big law firms and established institutions have ruled the l...