A would-be securities fraud broker has spotlighted methods used in attempts to penetrate law firm computer systems, by seeking help with his project on a cybercriminal forum, authorities say.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday granted the clemency petitions of 61 federal prisoners, reducing their sentences and providing for them to be freed later this year.
More than 20 percent of the nation’s top law firms are turning to statistical tools to evaluate lateral hiring, according to estimates by recruiters and software companies.
A federal judge has asked lawyers for Google and Oracle to voluntarily agree to a ban on Internet research on potential jurors or to disclose the extent of their online…
An unincorporated association of lawyers who share an office isn’t entitled to summary judgment in a suit claiming it is liable for a member’s alleged malpractice, a federal judge has…
Everything is obvious once you know the answer. Humans excel at recognizing after-the-fact inevitability. We reconstruct a logical chain of causation that seems to suggest the outcome was predictable. Yet,…
Sovereign immunity protects the Social Security Administration in a lawsuit by Binder & Binder for attorney fees paid to two clients who later declared bankruptcy, according to a federal appeals…
An app that takes dictation. A talking doll that’s a goldmine for cyberhackers. A service that preserves social media posts for posterity (or more likely, litigation).
It’s not easy telling an entire state full of colleagues and superiors that they need to move on from a business model that has served their industry for centuries. But…