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

204 Articles
over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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Cravath just set the going rate for Big Law associate bonuses, and other firms are following. At ...

Big Law associates have been putting in long hours to keep up with a torrent of deal work. Some feel the 2021 bonus s...

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over 2 years ago
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A day in the life of a cannabis and psychedelics lawyer who advises hemp cultivators and churches...

The former Big Law lawyer Adriana Kertzer focuses on cannabis law and runs the Instagram @JewWhoTokes. She took Insid...

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over 2 years ago
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4 lawyers at places like Gemini, WilmerHale, and DLx Law reveal how they turned crypto into careers

Many young lawyers are passionate about crypto-assets. But turning that passion into a career is hard. These four law...

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over 2 years ago
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Lawyers won $375 million for workers at companies like Uber, DoorDash, and Family Dollar. Now, mo...

Contracts banning class actions are everywhere, so law firms are using mass arbitration to represent consumers and wo...

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over 2 years ago
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A solar-power company used AI technology to nearly eliminate its billable-hour legal spending. He...

Lawyers billing hourly don't correspond to adding value. The solar-energy firm Sonnedix used a AI tool called Brightf...

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