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What could Amazon’s general counsel do when an employee sold sensitive company information? Fire the bum? Put him up for sale on the website? Issue an explanatory press release about the sale — of the information? The Securities and Exchange Commission helped out by explaining the details in a press release. Brett Kennedy, an Amazon […]

Why do people binge-watch lawyer shows on television, but will do anything to avoid lawyers in real life? “Goliath,” Amazon’s legal drama, partially answers that question: television lawyers are interesting and not hourly expensive. For attorneys who know better, however, there is another painful truth about the popular drama. It features an alcoholic attorney. Alcoholic […]

Diamonds are made under pressure. It’s a naturally occurring process deep in the Earth. Companies do make fakes — “cultured diamonds” — but nature’s recipe is the most valuable. People are not much different when it comes to performing under pressure — the process makes them better. And as anybody who has seen a good […]Read More

It’s not that the case came from the Deep South, but Judge Robin Rosenbaum knew the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals was in deep trouble. As she wrote in her long dissent in Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital, the Eleventh Circuit majority was about 50 years behind the times. Now the U.S. Supreme Court […]

The newest iPhones were announced this week with the usual Apple fanfare. In addition to celebrating the tenth anniversary of the first iPhone at the company’s new “spaceship” campus, it announced three new models of their now flagship device: iPhone 8, iPhone 8 plus, and iPhone X. While the 8 and 8 plus are merely […]

There’s a problem with the settlement in the selfie-monkey case: the monkey did not consent to it. If the monkey took a full-on, toothy selfie, he ought to be able to put a signature on a simple agreement. Don’t laugh. Elephants can do it. Even a sloppy, banana smudge would do. Come on, is there […]

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then behold the beauty of diversity in law school admissions. Yale Law School is celebrating the most diverse entering class in its history. The law school reported that 53 percent are women and 48 percent are people of color. That’s quite a difference for a law […]

‘Ambush by deposition’ is not as bad as it sounds. It means “to catch a witness by surprise,” which is the Perry Mason paradigm. Nothing wrong with a little curve, right? It’s not right to harass a witness with argumentative, irrelevant questions, but that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about pouncing on a […]Read More

The wave started five years ago when the American Bar Association approved a new rule of professional conduct requiring lawyers to be technology competent. As Nebraska has recently adopted the rule, the competency wave has crested and is about to break. Now, twenty eight states have raised the bar for attorneys to be technologically proficient. […]

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the internet. By now, you likely have learned about that Equifax suffered tremendous hacking. Specifically, as Equifax recently announced, hackers took advantage of website application vulnerability to access records during a several month period from May through July of this […]

The recent Texas voter ID laws that were blocked by a federal district court injunction have just had the enforcement of that order stayed pending the appeal, on the merits, by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. This means that the new voter ID laws will remain effective pending the resolution of the case, despite […]

It seems that at least a few times per year, there is some major hack of a major corporation. This month, the big hack involved the massive credit reporting agency, Equifax, which is quite frightening given the nature of the information the company processes. The Equifax hackers made off with over 140 million American’s information, […]