A few months ago, a real estate company brought an action against the Securities and Exchange Commission, and apparently the SEC now has been served in the case, known as Platform Real Estate, Inc. vs. United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The federal case was...
The ABA Journal reports that Amazon's Alexa-enabled artificial intelligence devices now can help attorneys, accountants and other timekeepers keep track of their billable time. According to the story, Thomson Reuters has a new assistant that can allow users to simply speak to Alexa and record time. It...
The Harvard of law schools, Harvard, recently announced it will now accept the GRE exam in lieu of the LSAT as a criterion for admission. What's different between the two? According to qsleap.com, "The LSAT is more a test of your reasoning skills than your subject...
Here's one clearly unanticipated benefit to the explosion of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like. US courts are now allowing you to serve papers on a foreign defendant in a lawsuit via their social media account or email. The most recent one, according to the ABA...
Could it be a sign of things to come? The ABA Journal reports that the University of Tulsa College of Law decided to cut its tuition for next year by 35%, dropping it down to $24,600 from $37,960. They are also reducing scholarships at the same...
As if becoming a lawyer isn't hard enough. As has been widely reported, Georgia messed up and accidentally told 90 people they failed the bar exam in February of 2015 and 2016 when in fact they passed. They say they are doing their best to...
In a very meaningful new case, as discussed in more detail on our law firm's health care blog at http://bit.ly/2b4m508, a federal appeals judge said the US Government cannot use federal money to prosecute those who are complying with state cannabis laws, even if it violates federal law...
That's not a typo. Colin O'Kroley of Cincinnati sued Google for $19 trillion. He claimed the search engine wrongfully suggested he was involved in criminal activity. According to the ABA Tech Journal, a search for O'Kroley's name brings up something called "Texas Advance Sheet" which reads "indecency...
You can't be guilty of money laundering if no money is involved. That's what Miami Judge Teresa Mary Pooler ruled earlier this week. Poor Michell Espinoza, a seller of cryptocurrency Bitcoin, was the subject of a sting by the Secret Service and Miami Beach Police. The...
