Fragomen reveals data breach affecting some employees of its client Google

Immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy has revealed a data breach in a notice filed with the state of California on Friday.

Oct 28, 2020 11:56 AM CDT

Law firms are slow to adopt AI-based technology tools, ABA survey finds

Oct 22, 2020 12:13 PM CDT

Seyfarth Shaw is in ‘restoration phase’ after malware attack

Seyfarth Shaw announced Thursday that the law firm has worked tirelessly this week to protect its confidential data after a malware attack last weekend.

Oct 16, 2020 10:09 AM CDT

Afternoon Briefs: Property law scholar wins ‘genius grant;’ judge says inmates entitled to stimulus checks

Law prof who studied Black land ownership wins ‘genius grant’ Thomas Wilson Mitchell, a law professor at the Texas A&M University, is the only lawyer among 21 winners of the MacArthur Foundation fellowships, commonly known as “genius grants,” this year. Mitchell left a law firm job to study how property…

Oct 6, 2020 3:15 PM CDT

How can courts counter disinformation? Arizona task force releases recommendations

An Arizona panel has called for court officials in the state and throughout the country to do more to address the threat of disinformation targeting the justice system.

Oct 5, 2020 3:04 PM CDT

National security lawyers say Russia is ramping up attacks on the American judiciary—and meeting resistance

“I think their clearest objective is to convince people that our institutions, including our justice system, are irrevocably broken,” says Suzanne Spaulding, senior adviser for homeland security and director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Oct 1, 2020 1:50 AM CDT

How to empower working moms during the coronavirus pandemic

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Carolyn Elefant, an attorney who focuses her practice on energy and environmental matters and the author of several books, including Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be.

Sep 25, 2020 9:58 AM CDT

Fake websites for 4 BigLaw firms might have been created to get deal information

Fake websites for four large law firms created in 2008 might have been part of an attempt to get insider information on pending Wall Street deals, according to newly declassified FBI documents obtained by the American Lawyer.

Sep 2, 2020 2:57 PM CDT

Cyberattack led to state’s delayed online bar exam, software provider says

A testing delay with Michigan’s online bar exam was caused by the outside provider experiencing a distributed denial of service attack, the state supreme court's communications director announced Tuesday evening.

Jul 29, 2020 9:39 AM CDT

Afternoon Briefs: Hackers want $21M from showbiz lawyer; videos of clothed women not a crime

Hackers demand $21M from showbiz lawyer Hackers are threatening to reveal personal information about the celebrity clients of lawyer Allen Grubman unless he pays them a ransom of $21 million. Grubman’s law firm says it has hired leading experts to address the hack. (Page Six, Variety) Law doesn’t bar taking…

May 14, 2020 4:15 PM CDT

Websites for Texas courts are shut down after ransomware attack

Websites for appellate-level courts in Texas were shut down Friday because of a ransomware attack that was discovered in the early-morning hours of May 8.

May 12, 2020 10:13 AM CDT

Afternoon Briefs: Ex-BigLaw partner gets home jailing for COVID-19 risk; lawsuit sees immigration-court safety risk

Ex-BigLaw partner released from prison for COVID-19 risk A Manhattan federal judge has ordered former Locke Lord partner Mark Scott to be released to home confinement because he has a greater risk of serious illness if he contracts COVID-19. U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos said Scott will spend two months…

Mar 31, 2020 4:58 PM CDT

Afternoon Briefs: SCOTUS splits over immigrant’s fight against ID theft conviction; first black justice on top Illinois court dies

SCOTUS splits over undocumented immigrant’s fight against state identify theft conviction The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Tuesday against Ramiro Garcia, an unauthorized immigrant in Kansas who was convicted under a state identity theft law after using someone else’s Social Security number to get a job. The conservative justices…

Mar 3, 2020 3:21 PM CST

Legal services company shuts down systems after ransomware attack

E-discovery and managed services company Epiq Global announced on Monday that it was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend.

Mar 3, 2020 10:35 AM CST

Chinese dissident can sue law firm over hack that exposed information online, judge rules

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that a Chinese asylum-seeker can sue the Clark Hill law firm over a 2017 hack that allegedly exposed personal data online.

Feb 25, 2020 10:26 AM CST