Do law schools mislead applicants about who gets what jobs after graduation? That's the crux of a case in California brought by one Anna Alaburda, who was at the top of her Thomas Jefferson School of Law class. She claims the school lied about job...
The ABA Journal reports that California may be the first state to approve the use of autonomous or self-driving cars within just a few years. As faithful blogees know, I'm fascinated, excited and maybe a little scared by the prospect of this, as many others...
The ABA Journal reports about the cutting edge case against one William Merideth in Kentucky. A drone owned by John Boggs was flying over Merideth's property. Merideth shot it down. Boggs sued for $1500 in damage. So the legal question: who owns the air rights above Merideth's...
At our law firm's panel in Miami on "Cuba in Plain English" the other day, I learned something quite fascinating from one of my very able intellectual property partners. Here it is: anyone can register any trademark in Cuba, even if they haven't used it in...
Yes his name is still causing headlines. Ponzi schemer extraordinaire Bernie Madoff, the 77-year old who attended Far Rockaway High School in NY a few years after both my parents, pled guilty to fraud back in 2009 and is now serving a 150 year sentence....
In a significant setback, but not really a surprise, for the cannabis industry, the Denver Post reports that newly formed Fourth Corner Credit Union in Colorado cannot force the Federal Reserve Bank to give it approval to operate under federal law. The Fed initially denied Fourth...
The New York Times reported the other day that, despite an endorsement from President Obama a few years ago, the attempts to better manage the costs of law school by offering two-year programs have not been faring well. Northwestern, one of the top US law schools,...
An already controversial part of the New York General Corporation Law, Section 630, makes the largest 10 shareholders of private New York corporations personally liable to employees if the company does not pay their wages. The provision has been around since the 1800s and was...
I'm a big advocate of de-legalease-ing as much as we lawyers can. If a party to an agreement doesn't really understand what they are signing, or an investor in a securities offering can't digest what is in offering materials because the language is too complex,...
A series of questions comes with the news last week that for the third time in the last year a well-known microcap securities lawyer has been arrested and charged with securities fraud. What is the responsibility of an attorney representing a public company or investors...