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.
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
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]