Jack Newsham Reporter
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Jack Newsham is a reporter writing about law and the legal industry. He is based in New York.

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  • Law
  • Legal Industry

221 Articles
over 2 years
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Uber was just hit with $11 million in fees in a “reverse race discrimination” case. The company’s...

A court said Uber Eats must pay millions in arbitration fees for users claiming reverse racism, saying the company's ...

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over 2 years
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A former Array executive claims the $1.5 billion fintech inflated its revenue and made up fake cu...

Array allegedly sold credit data to shady end-users and listed an employee's dad's tea shop as a growing customer, a ...

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over 2 years
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Nike is fighting to keep a massive gender-discrimination case from going forward. 3 lawyers walke...

A judge will next decide whether to certify a class that could include 5,000 plaintiffs. Legal experts described it a...

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over 2 years
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Litigation giant Gibson Dunn just changed its compensation rules to increase pay for rainmaking l...

The change was designed to improve the firm's recruiting efforts and ability to retain top talent, according to partn...

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over 2 years
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Big Law partners are getting paid like star athletes, with top earners now making $10 million or ...

The group of Big Law partners making "ballplayer money" is growing, with Gibson Dunn becoming the latest firm to offe...

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over 2 years
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Coca-Cola scrapped a policy that would have required outside law firms to involve Black lawyers a...

Read the letter Coca-Cola sent revealing it ended plans to make its outside law firms give more work to Black lawyers.

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over 2 years
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A group of US law students says Big Law firms are instruments of 'Moscow's war machine.' They're ...

At least 19 law firms have said they'll close their Moscow offices or dump Kremlin-linked clients. But some law stude...

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over 2 years
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A former Fenwick associate walked us through the financial strategies he used to leave Big Law's ...

A soldier turned Big Law attorney told us how he worked with a counselor to analyze his finances and prepare to take ...

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over 2 years
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These 11 lawyers helped BlockFi ink a groundbreaking $100 million crypto lending settlement with ...

Lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell helped BlockFi strike a deal with federal and state regulators that could be a templat...

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over 2 years
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A Texas law firm is moving its entire office to Portugal for a month this summer. Here's how it's...

Many Big Law firms are wary of bungling the return to the office. But Vela Wood, a Texas-based corporate boutique, is...

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over 2 years
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Kraken is hiring dozens of lawyers to fuel a dealmaking spree. Here's why the company's top attor...

Kraken's legal team tripled in size last year. Now its top lawyer is trying to double again in three months, and is w...

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almost 3 years
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These lawyers made more than $100,000 by getting a bakery to tell you how dark to make your toast

Thomas' English muffins and other breads now advise "toast to a light brown, not to a dark brown." The label was chan...

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