Wall Street
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Politics, Wall Street
Broke And Desperate, Ted Cruz Comes Crawling Back To Wall Street
Old Meltyface would like to explain his attacks/ask for some money. -
Television, Wall Street
Billions Recap: Because You're A Criminal, Bob
If you missed the season finale of Billions, you can get caught up here. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
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Money, Wall Street
Community Banks Tell Jamie Dimon Where To Shove His Olive Branch
"Don't pretend like we're friends... You don't KNOW us." -
Politics
Bernie Sanders Might Not Have Read Dodd-Frank All The Way Through
Behold, a truly disastrous interview. -
Wall Street
MetLife Win Will Or Will Not Gut Dodd-Frank: NYT
We still don’t know why, exactly, MetLife is no longer a systematically important financial institution, pending appeal. -
Politics
Hillary Clinton Reasonably Certain That Bernie Sanders Is Making No Damn Sense
Hillary might just rub her thumb and forefingers together the next time she's asked about those Goldman speeches. -
Television, Wall Street
Standard Of Review: 7 Ways To Fix 'Billions'
As Billions ends its first season and begins to prepare for its second, television critic Harry Graff offers some suggestions on how to improve it. - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Layoffs, Wall Street
Layoffs Watch ’16: BlackRock Planning To Cut 3% Of Global Headcount
The cuts will be across the board in terms of divisions and at all levels of seniority. -
Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
High-Flying Harvard Law Grad Charged With $95 Million Fraud Scheme
His family has quite the thing for Harvard Law: his father and three brothers are all HLS alums. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.29.16
* Legal showdown averted (for now): the feds were able to access the data on the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone without any help from Apple. [Washington Post]
* A Harvard Law School grad stands accused of a $95 million fraud scheme — yikes. We’ll have more on this later. [ABA Journal]
* Does a sentencing delay violate the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial? Some on SCOTUS seem skeptical. [How Appealing]
* Georgia Governor Nathan Deal announces his intention to veto the Free Exercise Protection Act, which critics claimed would have protected discrimination as a form of religious liberty. [New York Times]
* Hillary Clinton takes Republicans to task for their handling of the current Supreme Court vacancy. [Wisconsin State Journal via How Appealing]
* Some thoughts from Professor Noah Feldman on the recent Seventh Circuit ruling about the use of form contracts on the internet (which nobody reads). [Bloomberg View]
* Save money (on taxes), live better: a federal judge strikes down a tax levied by Puerto Rico on mega-retailer Wal-Mart. [Reuters]
* The Bracewell law firm, now sans Giuliani, elects Gregory Bopp as its new managing partner. [Texas Lawyer]
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Money, Wall Street
BofA Merrill Paying $14 Million Apology To The Millennial Trainees It Treated Like Old-School Trainees
Banks learning the hard way that kids these days will sue for working weekends. -
Politics
Even Barney Frank Thinks Bernie's Evil Wall Street Act Needs Work
The man who put the Frank in Dodd-Frank is NOT feeling "The Bern."
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Sex, Sex Scandals, Wall Street
Partner Leaves Firm After Sex Abuse Lawsuit
What one party views as a decade plus of “sexual, physical and emotional abuse,” another sees as a “romantic relationship” that ended “badly.” -
Politics, Wall Street
Ted Cruz Goes Way Out Of His Way To Take Debate Potshot At Wall Street
Old Meltyface doesn't need a logical transition moment to cravenly bash the financial sector. -
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Politics
When It Comes To President Trump, Wall Street Money Not Necessarily Going Where Wall Street Mouths Go
Even millionaires can be drilled into exhausted acquiescence. -
Crime
Barclays Analyst Is Strong Early Contender For Worst Roommate Of The Year Award
Declan Garrity seems like a real human nightmare. -
English Grammar and Usage, Politics
Bernie Sanders Hates Wall Street So Much That He Forgot What A Noun Is
His fury is grammar blind. -
Politics
Don't Look Now, But A GOP Candidate Actually Said Something Positive About Wall Street
Yes, Kasich DOES count.