Tag: Data Privacy

* Allen & Overy finally finds its American match, announcing a deal with Shearman & Sterling. The new firm will be called “A&O Shearman”… for a couple of months before we just call it “Allen & Overy.” [Law360]

* Biden seems unwilling to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment to avoid a government shutdown, though it’s not clear why since there wouldn’t be any injured plaintiff. [Reuters]

* Not that having a viable legal theory matters much to this Supreme Court. So why does the media bend over backward to frame opinions through a legal lens? In fairness, Above the Law more or less stopped trying to do that years ago. [Slate]

* A former Lewis Brisbois COO alleged financial shenanigans back in 2019. Not saying these rumors contributed to over 100 lawyers bailed, but they can’t have helped. [American Lawyer]

* Meta, the artist formerly known as Facebook and likely subsequently to be known as Facebook, receives 1.3 billion Euro fine for GDPR data privacy violations. [The Verge]

* Ty Cobb thinks Trump will end up in jail over classified documents. So don’t expect Cobb to be rejoining the legal team. [Newsweek]

* January 6 probe triggers secretive hearing involving WilmerHale — likely over social media data. [Politico]

* How private is data privacy really? NPR has a great primer on what happens when cops want to know about your social media. [NPR]

* Remember a while back when folks were arguing we could either choose the rule of law or Trump? The DHS is finding that out the hard way. [The Hill]

* A Bill of Rights for the homeless may be underway in the city of brotherly love. [Law.com]

* Being out of practice by choice is one thing, but that’s not what happened to this former councilman. [Penn Live]

* California is making sure 23andMe doesn’t become 23andUs with new genetic data privacy law. [JD Supra]

* California appeals court upholds law banning fracking. They have been on fire lately! No, not like that. [Jurist]

* Law firms are facing a big burnout problem. I realized things were bad when they run the risk of losing their star lawyers to TikTok. [Law.com]

* Montana lawsuit claims that prohibition on holding voting drives at high traffic college campus areas suppresses students’ right to vote. And that makes sense. I’d probably still be unregistered if not for being hounded on my way to Philosophy 102. [Daily Interlake]

* Missouri man who followed and killed two people over $200 found not guilty because of stand your ground law. This feels really familiar. [KSHB]

* Texas’s juvenile prisons are being investigated by the Department of Justice. [New York Times]