Did No Attorney Explain To Actress Eva Green What Litigation Entailed *Before* She Filed Her Lawsuit Against Film Producers?
The actress calls discovery 'humiliating.'
FTC Takes Meta To Task For Controlling Most Of How The World Communicates
I have a sneaking suspicion Zuckerberg doesn't 'Like' this one bit.
Where Inefficiency (Still) Plagues Today’s Legal Departments
In-house lawyers have yet to find their ideal workday, but your team can do better, according to this new survey report.
Non-Sequiturs: 05.12.16
* Behold! The power of a single judge. A Brazilian state judge shuts down Brazil's most popular chat app, WhatsApp, for 72 hours. [The Intercept] * The 16 most... unique legal defenses in history. [Reeves Law Group] * Do ponytails count as a professional hairstyle? [Corporette] * Former clerks of the late justice speak about Scalia's legacy. [C-SPAN] * Can the Urban Confessional Project actually help stressed-out lawyers? [Law and More] * Germany is annulling the convictions of 50,000 men for homosexuality, saying the victims of this now obsolete law shouldn't have to live with the stigma of conviction. [Wonkette] * Michael Ratner, noted civil rights attorney who challenged the government's detention of prisoners without judicial review at Guantánamo Bay, RIP. [New York Times]
Beyond Biglaw: Care To Chat?
Columnist Gaston Kroub discusses the strengths of chat as a communication medium for lawyers.
Non-Sequiturs: 02.20.14
* Congrats to Weil Gotshal and Fenwick & West for getting in on Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, the biggest Internet deal in a decade. [The Recorder] * In South Carolina, you can get arrested for crimes that aren’t even things any more. Like “failure to return a VHS tape.” [Lowering the Bar] * Drunk lawyer at heart of alleged insider trading scheme. [Dealbreaker] * Did LBJ colossally screw up the Supreme Court? [Concurring Opinions] * Were you curious about who would be on the Mount Rushmore of Tax Law professors? No? Well, here they are anyway. [TaxProf Blog] * The so-called “trial penalty” is really a myth and empirical data confirms that defendants who reject plea deals and go to trial actually garner a “trial discount.” Yep, prosecutors aren’t overreaching at all. [PrawfsBlawg] * President Obama called for patent law reform in the State of the Union address. Now we have some insight into what he’s thinking about. [Patently-O] * Congratulations to Matthew Skinner, the next executive director of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York! [LeGal]