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Why Lawyers Must Prioritize Cyber Security for Law Firms
, Attorneys handle a wealth of sensitive information daily. Confidentiality is a core tenet of the legal profession. Clients need to know that whatever they say to their lawyer is protected via client-attorney privilege. Unfortunately, data breaches are becoming increasingly common, threatening both the privacy of clients’ sensitive information and firms’ reputations. Consider data from […]
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A Podcast And More
The Globe and Mail’s “The Decibel” podcast interviewed me on nuclear weapons and such. I think it’s a pretty good primer on nuclear weapons effects. *** I will not link to William Arkin’s article in Newsweek based on his interviews with STRATCOM personnel. It is in honor of this article that I chose the header […]
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This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919
On September 30, 1919, a shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to crack down. One of the worst massacres in American history, and yet sadly little known, it represented the peak of white […]
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Now and then
2022: She said she did not speak “at all about the details of my volunteer campaign activities” and that “I did not speak with him at all about the details of my post election activities, which were minimal” she added “he was completely unaware” of my texts with Mark Meadows 2/4— Ariane de Vogue (@Arianedevogue) […]
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On the other hand, that autobahn looks pretty sweet
The Wall Street Journal is endorsing Kari Lake for governor of Arizona because she’s in favor of vouchers for parents who want to use state money to help pay for private school education. That’s the key issue in the race, according to America’s Flagship Conservative Editorial Page: Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor, whom […]
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A Maggie Haberman Counterfactual
Like Emptywheel, I don’t want to spend a lot of time on Maggie Haberman’s journalism, nor the New York Times’s handling of it. But Dan Drezner got into the mix yesterday with a bunch of things that I disagree with. Marcy handles some of those. Drezner and Maggie’s colleagues at the Times argue that even […]
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Wars Waged With Gold
Henry VIII’s childhood copy of De Officiis, bearing the inscription in his hand, “Thys boke is myne Prynce Henry” We gots a book on the way, “we” being myself, Charles Dainoff of the University of Idaho, and Geoff Williams of Transylvania University. “The sinews of war,” posited Cicero, “are infinite money.” Can the same be said of […]
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LDI: where’s the exposure?
Choose your subscription Digital Be informed with the essentialnews and opinion MyFT – track the topics most important to you FT Weekend – full access to the weekend content Mobile & Tablet Apps – download to read on the go Gift Article – share up to 10 articles a month with family, friends and colleagues […]
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Ohio Republicans getting exactly what they wanted
That is, young rape victims given a choice of making an arduous, expensive journey or being forced to carry a pregnancy to term at great physical and mental risk: At least two more minors made pregnant by sexual assault were forced to leave Ohio to avoid having their rapists’ babies, according to sworn affidavits filed […]
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Hurricanes and the demographics of climate change
Hurricane Ian intensified rapidly overnight, and is now a monstrously huge storm with 155 mph sustained winds. This means among other things that it’s going to cause a massive storm surge on the western coast of Florida, which, because the Gulf of Mexico is so shallow for many miles offshore in that area, is going […]