Jack Newsham Reporter
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  • 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
about 3 years
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Time's Up co-founder Robbie Kaplan sued Donald Trump and Nazis. But she's also helped at least 3 ...

Robbie Kaplan is well-known for her progressive legal work. But her work for clients accused of sexual misconduct cov...

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about 3 years
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Top US law firms are doing so well that they just broke a key industry metric. Here's what's driv...

A key metric for the legal industry's financial health has surged to a new high, with dealmaking creating work and ho...

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about 3 years
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One law firm brought hundreds of website accessibility cases. One of their clients says they 'bee...

Lawyers sued hundreds of websites for being inaccessible to blind people. Contrary to court filings, one of their cli...

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about 3 years
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'They beefed up my blindness': How a law firm sued 13 websites and falsely claimed its client cou...

Frances Kalender is legally blind, but she can still use a computer. Her lawyers told a court otherwise.

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about 3 years
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A software engineer left a bad Glassdoor review of his company. Now it's suing him for $1 million.

A former employee called LoanStreet a "raging dumpster fire." The company calls it a smear campaign.

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about 3 years
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A top investor in Better Mortgage says the company is using hardball tactics to lock up its share...

An early investor in Better Mortgage said the company was trying to force it to accept unfair terms ahead of a SPAC m...

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about 3 years
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Lawyers who work with New York's poor children and adults say their rates haven't budged in 17 ye...

Lawyers assigned to help poor New Yorkers with their legal needs have sued the state, saying they haven't gotten a ra...

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about 3 years
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First-year lawyers are getting 7% raises. Their law firms have hiked rates twice as much.

Compensation is growing for associates at top-tier US law firms, but the hourly rates charged for their time have gro...

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over 3 years
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Hedge funder Kyle Bass's $34 million real-estate short could cost him $1 billion

The stakes are getting higher in United Development Funding's lawsuit against hedge funder Kyle Bass over his short-s...

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over 3 years
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The 7 biggest lawyer moves that shaped the first half of 2021, according to top legal recruiters.

After a slow 2020, Big Law has been on a hiring spree in 2021. Insider tracked the top 7 moves by dealmakers, trial l...

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over 3 years
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Robinhood's top lawyer made $30 million in eight months, more than anybody else at the company

Daniel Gallagher joined Robinhood in May 2020 and made $30 million that year, more than the company's CEO, according ...

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over 3 years
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Seeking nominations for the top startup immigration lawyers in the US

Immigrant entrepreneurs are a driving force behind many of America's tech startups. But it can be hard for them to ge...

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