The science of victim-blaming and how attorneys can fight back

29 July, 2016

Last month a former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was given a light jail sentence for sexual assault of an unconscious woman. A couple weeks ago, two black men – Alton Sterling and Philando Castile– were fatally shot by police, the first while immobilized and the second during a traffic s...

The American Arbitration Crisis: Mandating Injustice

22 July, 2016

At the same time that the Supreme Court is upholding all-things-arbitration, buckets of evidence are surfacing about the arbitration system’s mind-boggling failures. State judges admit to backing the Supreme Court’s decisions only while holding their noses, while consumer advocate groups...

Kidnapped Computers: The Virus Wrecking Law Firms

15 July, 2016

While journalists are calling 2016 the “Year of Ransomware,” more and more users are blindsided by that stomach-lurching pop-up note announcing that every file on your computer is now encrypted and held for ransom. This post explains what ransomware is, why cybercriminals are targeting l...

Legal News Roundup: July 8th, 2016

8 July, 2016

Let’s take a look at this week in legal news. Fourth of July Madness Congratulations on making it through the Fourth of July weekend, and subsequent return to work. Last weekend, America spent $6.77 billion on food, and $1.09 billion on 285.3 million pounds of fireworks. About 700 people were treat...

How Lawyers Can Thrive in the New Economy

8 July, 2016

From the consumer’s perspective, the Law has been a respected and feared pillar of society. Lawyers, judges and legal workers have stood as the gatekeepers to the Law’s exclusive domain, the purveyors of a mysterious and powerful knowledge. Big law firms and established institutions have...

Attorney Management Skills: Ditch the Lawyerly Logic

1 July, 2016

Word is attorneys are terrible managers (at least according to this piece in Fortune titled “Why are lawyers such terrible managers?”). But if we’re a little clumsy at office management tasks, that’s just because our law school curriculum typically avoids the whole topic, right? Maybe. It surely doe...