Faux Biglaw Lawyer Pleads Guilty To Social Security Fraud, Gets Prison Time
He'd have gotten away with it too if not for his employer's due diligence!
Disbarred Attorney Uses Fake ID To Score Better Job Than You
He's been arrested for the scheme.
LexisNexis Practical Guidance Rolls Out Dedicated Practice Area for AI & Technology
The new generation of AI-related legal issues are inherently cross-disciplinary, implicating corporate law, intellectual property, data privacy, employment, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
Biglaw Phishing Scam Results In Identity Theft
The mistake was caught by the firm when employees started reporting they were victims of fraud.
IRS Tool Designed To Protect Identity Theft Victims — Exposes Users To Identity Theft
Your tax dollars at work... for cyber criminals.
FYI: If You Worked For The Government, Your Identity May Have Been Stolen
This holiday season, the Office of Personnel Management is giving you the gift of free identity theft monitoring. Yay?
Chief Justice John Roberts: Just Like Us!
Chief Justice Roberts is on an oversharing tear. What did His Honor recently reveal?
Legal Is Changing. And NeoSummit Is Where The Future Is Being Built.
Legal and operational leaders are gathering May 6–7 in Fort Lauderdale to confront the questions the industry hasn't answered—with a keynote from Amanda Knox setting the tone.
Internet Hacker Sentenced to Prison Garners Ill-Conceived Support
Andrew Auernheimer receives 41-month prison sentence. It may be too severe, but Auernheimer was asking for it.
Flyover Law School Exposes Students to Potential Identity Theft Issues
Nebraska: the home of corn and campus-wide student information security breaches.
Don’t Mess With Your Friend’s Facebook; It Might Be a Felony
When I was in college, it was not altogether uncommon for people to leave their laptops unattended with their Facebook accounts still logged in. It was not altogether uncommon for an enterprising prankster to creatively twiddle with said account. A little switch of sexual preference here, a mildly offensive profile picture there, and maybe a […]
Fourth Circuit Decides First Amendment Trumps Social Security Number Privacy
Court clerks in Virginia may be shaking their fists at the Fourth Circuit today. In an interesting ruling on free speech, privacy, and public records, the court ruled that an angry blogger has the right to publish public officials’ and court clerks’ Social Security numbers in order to protest the fact that Virginia puts records […]
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