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Privilege Lost For “Underlying Documents” When Report Is Made Public

When a school board released a lawyer’s report about alleged sexual assaults by members of a high school basketball team, it had no desire to release the interviews and communications that…

Don’t Push Send

Every day, attorneys transmit spreadsheets, documents and PDFs, to courts and adversaries, to third parties, and to clients. Either they […]

In A Business Deal, When Does “Zealous Advocacy” Become Crime?

If a business transaction is later deemed criminal, what are the consequences for the outside lawyer who advised on the […]

Phishing: The Punch That Explodes

One of the most pernicious forms of cyberattack shows no signs of abating. On the contrary, it just keeps getting […]

Practical Law Firm Cybersecurity

With some ominous findings from the UK as a springboard, this article outlines major security threats to law firms and […]

Ex-Quinn Emanuel Lawyers Start Boutique

Philippe Selendy, Faith Gay, and eight other partners from Quinn Emanuel’s New York office have opened a new boutique law […]

$75 Ticket For Keeping Chickens, $5,600 In “Prosecution Fees”

A class-action has been filed against two CA municipalities that have “made a practice of taking residents to criminal court for exceptionally minor crimes, then charging them thousands to pay for the cost of their own prosecution,” according…

Why Not An “NTSB” For Cyber Attacks?

Like the NTSB when it investigates plane crashes and train accidents, the proposed agency would investigate an incident and…

Creating Compliance For A Miscreant

In an interview, the former compliance chief of Swedish telecommunications firm Telia explains how she created a team from scratch […]

You Just Discovered You’re Repping A Ponzi Scheme

There are few risk management problems potentially more catastrophic than this one, whether the issue is a Ponzi scheme or […]

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