Lawyer Ethics

Hackers Stage A Data Auction After Company Refuses To Pay Ransom

The starting price was $50,000, and on the block were some 22,000 files and three data bases stolen from a Canadian company that had balked….

How To Pay A Ransom

You have decided your best option under the circumstances is to pay up. But that decision is far from the last…

In Celebrity Law Firm Ransom Attack, Hackers Up The Ante, Threaten Trump

New York’s Grubman, Shire, Meiselas & Sacks has been hit with a crippling ransom attack by the hacker group REvil, […]

“Mistakes Will Be Made”: Two Med Mal Firms Pledge No Lawsuits Over Covid Errors

Two Texas law firms with a medical malpractice specialty have pledged not to sue over efforts by healthcare providers in […]

Problems When Transactional Counsel Act as Trial Counsel

“Your company’s agent for service of process delivers a lawsuit involving a contract that your company’s law firm drafted. Given […]

Litigation Pandemic May Be Next For Italy

Victims’ families are coalescing on Facebook and weighing their options. Prosecutors in some nursing home cases are considering manslaughter charges, […]

How Not To Do “Austerity Rollouts”

Some law firms have already furloughed employees, cut salaries or laid off employees in response to the Covid crisis, and […]

Whistleblowing To In-House Counsel

Complex privilege questions can arise when an employee has a whistleblowing discussion with in-house counsel. Will the privilege apply, and […]

Protecting Electronic Devices At The Border

A recent episode involving a cell phone search at the border got a lot of media attention, seen primarily through […]

Fox Sued Over Its Coverage Of Virus

A Washington state consumer group has sued Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, along with cable news carriers AT&T and Comcast, […]

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