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 3 years
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Trump hired dozens of lawyers from 2 law firms. Only one has been hiring them back.

Jones Day has rehired Trump administration lawyers, while Kirkland & Ellis hasn't. But the differences between the fi...

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over 3 years
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One of New York's busiest real estate lawyers has gone missing, owing millions. Even his 94-year-...

Mitch Kossoff employed dozens of lawyers, paralegals, and investigators. But no one seems to know where he is, and mi...

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over 3 years
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The SEC's top Wall Street cop just resigned after less than a week on the job. Here's what went d...

Alex Oh stepped down after less than a week as the SEC's enforcement head, saying scrutiny of her work for Exxon coul...

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over 3 years
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Morrison & Foerster is starting to track its lawyers' calls, emails, and website visits in an eff...

Morrison & Foerster has begun using software to log lawyers' computer activity. It's the new normal at many law firms...

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over 3 years
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One judge turned Waco, Texas into the go-to city for Big Tech patent lawsuits, with nearly 800 ca...

A Waco federal judge has made his courtroom the go-to spot for patent cases. That could mean more litigation for Big ...

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over 3 years
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Big Law firms are in an 'unprecedented' scramble for associates, paying up to six-figure signing ...

Capital markets, M&A, and other corporate lawyers are in high demand. Law firms are offering signing bonuses and maki...

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over 3 years
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How 750 anonymous Coinbase traders have eluded the IRS even after making $100 million

The IRS is still trying to identify hundreds of Coinbase users from a 2018 data production. Some used fake names, and...

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over 3 years
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A crypto exec's resume listed Goldman, Lending Club and RBC. He didn't mention a prison break. No...

James Alexander listed banks and a who's-who of fintech companies on his resume. But an investigator says he also bro...

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over 3 years
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Confessions of Big Law's burned-out associates: 5 current and former lawyers from firms like Clea...

Big Law associates typically have long hours, but the pandemic has more of them feeling burned out. Five of them shar...

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over 3 years
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The IRS is targeting Kraken and Circle users it thinks are avoiding taxes on crypto trades

The IRS says a crackdown on Coinbase traders led to over $13 million in new taxes. Now it's going after major users o...

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over 3 years
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What beavers, cow embryos, whiskey, and orange groves have to do with regulating crypto assets—ev...

The Howey test, which came from an SEC lawsuit about orange groves, has been applied to chinchillas, Scotch whisky—an...

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over 3 years
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Ripple, whose XRP token was deemed illegal by the SEC, claims the agency is hiding internal recor...

The SEC claims XRP is an illegal security, while Ripple argues that it's similar to Bitcoin and Ether and asked a jud...

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