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Lawyers For Bankrupt Firm Won’t Owe Rent

Individual lawyers who worked at Dewey & LeBoeuf won’t be held personally liable for paying rent the firm owed when […]

Major Law Firms Threatened With Cyber Class Actions

A Chicago attorney, said to be “if not the most hated person in Silicon Valley, very close to it,” has set his sights on 15 major law firms….

China’s New Internet Restrictions Could Apply To Law Firms

Publisher of online content must now get a license, and in order to do it they need to meet some […]

Intervention For Data Hoarders

Easy to keep and hard to throw away, data tends to accumulate and become a big expensive problem that only […]

Law Firm Responds to “Panama Papers” Hack

Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonesca has said the 11.5 million documents taken from them in a staggering hack, then distributed […]

How Law Departments Spend

A 2015 survey of about 300 corporations found that median total legal spend increased two percent over the previous year, but the increase was not across the board…

Information Sharing Under The New Cybersecurity Law

The text of the the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) was incorporated by amendment into a consolidated spending bill in […]

Lawyers: We Were Fired To Prevent Split Of $391M Verdict

In a lawsuit, 17 former attorneys at a top Colorado law firm claim they were let go to avoid splitting […]

“Mega-Settlements” On The Rise

The number of class action settlements reached in 2015 – 80 – was the most since 2010, and six of […]

BigLaw Firms Hacked

Hackers infiltrated the systems of some of the nation’s top law firms, possibly to uncover information they could use for […]

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