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
about 2 years ago
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Coca-Cola scrapped a policy that would have required outside law firms to involve Black lawyers a...

Read the letter Coca-Cola sent revealing it ended plans to make its outside law firms give more work to Black lawyers.

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about 2 years ago
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A group of US law students says Big Law firms are instruments of 'Moscow's war machine.' They're ...

At least 19 law firms have said they'll close their Moscow offices or dump Kremlin-linked clients. But some law stude...

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about 2 years ago
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A former Fenwick associate walked us through the financial strategies he used to leave Big Law's ...

A soldier turned Big Law attorney told us how he worked with a counselor to analyze his finances and prepare to take ...

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about 2 years ago
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These 11 lawyers helped BlockFi ink a groundbreaking $100 million crypto lending settlement with ...

Lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell helped BlockFi strike a deal with federal and state regulators that could be a templat...

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about 2 years ago
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A Texas law firm is moving its entire office to Portugal for a month this summer. Here's how it's...

Many Big Law firms are wary of bungling the return to the office. But Vela Wood, a Texas-based corporate boutique, is...

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about 2 years ago
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Kraken is hiring dozens of lawyers to fuel a dealmaking spree. Here's why the company's top attor...

Kraken's legal team tripled in size last year. Now its top lawyer is trying to double again in three months, and is w...

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over 2 years ago
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These lawyers made more than $100,000 by getting a bakery to tell you how dark to make your toast

Thomas' English muffins and other breads now advise "toast to a light brown, not to a dark brown." The label was chan...

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over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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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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over 2 years ago
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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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