Updated October 2017. In the post on Criminal Activity and Your IP address, I outlined how people use TOR (The Onion Router) in order to conceal their IP address in order to maintain a certain level of anonymity online. But a bare bones use of the TOR system is not...
Last month, the ABA issued its first ever report on “lawyer incubators.” What is a lawyer incubator you ask? Lawyer incubators have emerged as models that enable newly-admitted lawyers to acquire the range of skills necessary to launch successful practices...
Back around 1997, the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) started trending upwards. It generally kept trending upwards until 2009. But then the recession hit in 2008. The subsequent contraction of the legal industry generated volumes of bad news regarding the prospects...
This past week there was a fair bit of noise as to whether Bitcoin is legal money or not, spurred on by Florida v. Espinoza, a recent case in Miami, Florida. This pithy line struck a chord with many: The court is not an expert in economics; however, it is very clear,...
The Lawyer Party Since 1984, every Democratic nominee for President and Vice President has been a lawyer. Most Republican nominees have not been lawyers1Romney only kind of counts. He got a joint MBA/JD, but went into finance. What does that mean? Not sure really. I...
I really don’t want to pile on here, but augmented reality (AR) presents many interesting and new legal issues that haven’t existed up until this point. These legal issues were previously theoretical. But with the emergence and popularity of Pokemon Go,...
