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Stealth Email Tracking By Law Firms Deemed Unethical

Stealth email tracking software, sometimes called spymail, is likely employed “in just about every marketing email you receive,” writes Mark […]

The Lawyer Who Gave Sexual Harassment Its Name

A look back at the career and contribution of lawyer and legal scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon, whose 1979 book…

#TimesUp

“It’s time to ensure that your company has a strong policy prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace and that the […]

Does The Conflict-Minerals Law Hurt African Miners?

Many companies will soon be fulfilling their SEC requirement to report on whether mining of certain minerals in their supply […]

Dershowitz Assails ACLU For Defending Raid On Trump’s Lawyer

Harvard law professor and civil liberties advocate Alan Dershowitz calls the ACLU to task for defending the FBI’s raid on […]

17 Percent Of EEOC Sexual Harassment Complainants Are Male

In a recent CNN poll, ten percent of men reported they had been victims of sexual harassment at work. The […]

Insurers Keep Wary Eye On School Kids’ Climate Lawsuit

Most industry observers are not paying much attention to a climate lawsuit in Oregon, where 21 teen-age students are suing […]

Payday Lenders Sue Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

An Obama-era regulation, yet to be implemented, would have required pay day lenders to verify that borrowers can afford the […]

The End Of “Regulatory Exceptionalism” For Silicon Valley

Regulators seemed to accept what  John Perry Barlow proclaimed in his widely quoted Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, in 1996: “Governments […]

Tech Regulation Will Stifle Start-Ups

A push is on to expand regulation of tech companies, but Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the IMF, […]

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