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

204 Articles
almost 2 years ago
businessinsider.com

The lawyers who sued Palantir over Peter Thiel's 'emperor-for-life' control have set their sights...

The lawsuit claims Carvana founder, Ernest Garcia, and his CEO son have unlawfully retained control even as they've c...

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almost 2 years ago
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A Nexo co-founder walked away with millions in bitcoin after he was fired in 2019, and the crypto...

Nexo, one of the world's biggest crypto lenders, has been quietly battling with co-founder Georgi Shulev for control ...

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almost 2 years ago
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39-year old litigator Alex Spiro is Elon Musk's go-to lawyer. Like Musk, you either love him or y...

Alex Spiro has represented rappers like Jay Z and Bobby Schmurda, and he's working for Musk behind the scenes as the ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Fine dining, firearms, and mail-order wine: As a Big Law attorney making $500,000 a year, here's ...

Insider interviewed a lawyer in Dallas who makes half a million dollars a year and no longer has any student-loan deb...

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almost 2 years ago
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The CEO of fintech unicorn Array used the names of a yoga instructor and the mothers of his child...

A former chief strategy officer claims Array CEO Martin Toha created fake subscriber accounts to avoid fraud detectio...

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almost 2 years ago
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GoldenTree's COO was fired after making "disgusting sexual comments," getting a subordinate pregn...

GoldenTree also claimed Bill Christian "showed at least one subordinate a picture of his exposed genitals." He left t...

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almost 2 years ago
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Meet GreyList, the investigations startup that says it can figure out who you’ve emailed and wher...

GreyList Trace says it can spot connections between fraudsters and banks. Its tools have been used to investigate pol...

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about 2 years ago
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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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about 2 years ago
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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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about 2 years ago
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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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about 2 years ago
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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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about 2 years ago
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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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