After Disaster, Rebuild Your Communities

22 September, 2017

Guest post by Chris Smith, Co-Founder of Deep Magic Marketing — From record-breaking hurricanes and floods in the East to massive wildfires in the West, it’s been a hell of a year already. And with more storms brewing on the horizon — and climate models predicting increasingly extreme weather in o...

Could Websites Be Liable for Third-Party Posts?

22 September, 2017

In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, a disgusting human posted an array of trashy, mocking t-shirts on an AOL bulletin board (some of the less graphic include: “Visit Oklahoma . . . It’s a BLAST!!!”; and “McVeigh for President 1996”). This dumpster fire of a human claimed to be a guy named Ken,...

Becoming a Neurolawyer

8 September, 2017

Traumatic Brain Injury and the fight against ‘Malingering’ I’m looking at a diagram of the human brain. In this picture it looks like a very wrinkly baseball mitt, cuddled up in the hard shell of skull. It is swaddled in three membranes all named different kinds of ‘mater’ (meaning ‘mother’ – pia...

3 Trends in Discrimination Class Actions

25 August, 2017

What does the future hold for civil rights and labor lawyers?  The conflict we saw in Charlottesville bubbles up in a million different forms and discussions about free speech, discrimination, and the future of our country. One place where these questions are being addressed in les...

Data Wars

11 August, 2017

Seven Summer Updates in Privacy Law With all the summer’s buzz about leaks, you’d be forgiven for thinking data breaches are mostly a Trump story. But off the Hill, there’s plenty of turmoil over the issue of personal privacy. As we fight for personal privacy in the age of big data and bigger hac...

Is this the death of class actions based on state law?

30 June, 2017

Class Action Woes As though it isn’t hard enough to wrangle together all the people harmed by a widespread practice into one multi-district litigation, the Supreme Court just made it harder to file and win class action lawsuits. The case that landed in front of the Court, Bristol-Myers Squibb v. S...