Jack Newsham Reporter
  • New York
  • Business Insider

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

Focus Areas

  • Law
  • Legal Industry

221 Articles
almost 3 years
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Crypto heavyweight ConsenSys AG says a former exec is a 'fraud' with a 'toxic and abusive persona...

ConsenSys alleged Kavita Gupta lied on her résumé, lacked key skills, and abused colleagues. Gupta said the company o...

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almost 3 years
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A woman says she cocreated the fintech startup Petal. She has receipts, including an email in whi...

Petal, the credit-building fintech startup, has been quietly fighting claims from a woman who says she came up with t...

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almost 3 years
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A former partner at Morgan Lewis, Kaye Scholer, and Baker Botts reveals the burnout, sexism, and ...

Amy Conway-Hatcher has investigated corruption and prosecuted rapists and murderers. Here's how she believes Big Law ...

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almost 3 years
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A hemp farmer is trying to crowdfund a lawsuit on the blockchain. Here's how it could open up lit...

A new platform called Ryval is set to be a marketplace for "initial litigation offerings" whose tokens would be trade...

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almost 3 years
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7 top M&A lawyers share their predictions for 2022, including a crush of deals in tech, healthcar...

Mergers and acquisitions set a volume record in 2021, and lawyers with their fingers on the pulse of deals anticipate...

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almost 3 years
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Family Dollar forced employees to sign arbitration agreements. Here's what happened when they tri...

Because of forced arbitration agreements, Family Dollar workers can't sue in a public court. Here's how some of them ...

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almost 3 years
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Family Dollar workers complained of being underpaid for 80-hour workweeks, sleeping in chairs, an...

Family Dollar workers said they worked long hours without overtime. They dealt with robberies, injuries, and natural ...

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almost 3 years
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How Family Dollar kept worker lawsuits hidden from public view

Family Dollar workers said they put in 80-hour weeks, slept in chairs, and found snakes in stockrooms. Their complain...

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almost 3 years
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Big Law is split on letting lawyers trade crypto. Insiders at Sullivan & Cromwell and Latham reve...

Law firms are all over the map when it comes to restrictions on crypto trading. Latham & Watkins and Sullivan & Cromw...

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almost 3 years
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Junior lawyers tell us why they refuse to go back to the office even though their Big Law firms r...

Some Big Law associates who like working from home are seeing what happens if they don't return to the office: "I'm j...

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almost 3 years
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Read the memo Cravath sent around to mark the end of its lockstep pay system

The old-school law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore said it's changing its lockstep pay system for partners that's been i...

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almost 3 years
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The weird ways law firms push lawyers out instead of firing them

In most of corporate America, getting fired happens in a quick meeting with HR. But not at Big Law firms, where "stea...

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