United Kingdom / Great Britain
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Reddit Law School Rides To Rescue After Cheating Lawyer Wife Tries To Set Terms Of Divorce
Certainly not personally vested in this at all.
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A Brexit wrinkle could pay off big for lawyers.
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General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Technology
alt.legal: An MBA For Lawyers! Bruce Macmillan’s Vision
Could lawyers — especially in-house lawyers — benefit from an MBA made especially for them?
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* Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams pleads guilty to accepting a bribe, ending his ongoing federal corruption trial and his tenure as DA — and sending him straight to jail, since Judge Paul Diamond denied bail. [ABA Journal]
* The Trump administration moves forward on implementing the travel ban (and has reversed its earlier determination that being engaged to marry an American doesn’t count as “a bona fide” connection to this country). [New York Times]
* Colorado baker Jack Phillips, petitioner in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case that the Supreme Court will hear next Term, explains his refusal to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. [How Appealing]
* DLA Piper, hit by a major ransomware attack earlier this week, endures its third consecutive day without email. [Law360]
* And DLA isn’t the only Biglaw firm with big weaknesses in cybersecurity, as Ian Lopez reports. [Law.com]
* Lawyer turned television host Greta Van Susteren has been let go by MSNBC (after just six months). [Vanity Fair]
* The tragic case of Charlie Gard comes to an end: the European Court of Human Rights declines to review prior court rulings refusing to let the terminally ill 10-month-old boy travel to the U.S. for experimental treatment. [Washington Post]
* Drs. John Eastman and Sohan Dasgupta break down the Trinity Lutheran case. [Claremont Institute]
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Money, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Which legal startup just closed on a $12 million funding round?
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Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Job Searches, Technology
Rewire The Legal Profession With More Business Training For Lawyers
It won’t be easy to rewire lawyers, but if law firms and businesses employing lawyers want to succeed, they must.
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This Week In Legal Tech: Is This App The Tinder Of Legal Hiring?
Its founders believe it’s already disrupting legal hiring by providing a quick, easy alternative to legal recruiters.
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Crime, Free Speech, Masturbation, Non-Sequiturs, Sex, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
* For some reason, the Supreme Court has hardly ruled on any of the First Amendment cases before it this term. Cue the Twilight Zone theme.[PrawfsBlawg]
* New strategy for closing the gender gap: stop relying on mentors so much. Because, you know, Jack Donaghy can only do so much before Liz Lemon has to start figuring stuff out on her own. [Careerist]
* He’s not saying your antivirus software is useless, it’s just not exactly useful. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* Happy Diamond Jubilee to that elderly English lady who wears big, old-fashioned hats and is always politely waving to large crowds. [Charon QC via Blawg Review]
* A man stole a $4,000 gold plated vibrator, but he forgot to nab the charger. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. [Legal Juice]
* What not to do in a judge’s chambers. [Greedy Associates]
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Drinking, Facebook, Privacy, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
If You Want to Go to the Clubs, Bring Your
IDFacebook PageBouncers in the U.K. have started cross-checking IDs with patrons’ Facebook profiles. I smell a privacy dispute…
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Facebook, Social Networking Websites, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Working as a process server is a tough job. It might be one of the few modern professions where “don’t shoot the messenger” still has literal meaning. Seth Rogen made it look kind of cool in Pineapple Express, and he got to wear disguises. But that movie wasn’t exactly realistic. But what if there was […]
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Bad Ideas, Google / Search Engines, Privacy, Sex, Sex Scandals, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Suing Google to Remove Results About Your Alleged Orgy Won’t Work
Chris Danzig had never heard of Max Mosley until yesterday, when he read he was suing Google in Europe to block all search results regarding his alleged participation in some sort of Nazi sex orgy. Ironically, when you search for Mosley’s name now, you get a zillion news stories with headlines like “Max Mosley sues Google over ‘Nazi orgy’ search results.” Let’s learn more about Mosley, the former president of Formula One, and his decidedly unsexy legal battle against Google….