Top 10 in Law Blogs: Cashless Societies, Jurors Pay, and DocuSign
August 10, 2016
Here’s Wednesday’s Top 10 in Law Blogs as our hometown team. Quick tidbit, on this day in history, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female Supreme Court justice.
- Should We Be Valuing Jurors’ Time Better? – LexBlog’s Zosha Millman looks at the pluses and minus of increasing jurors pay, as a lawsuit out of Seattle seeks to increase the basic $10 pay for King County Jurors.
- No Cash? No Problem: The Emergence of Cashless Retailers – Goulston and Storrs, Retail Law Advisor, writes about how more and more stores and communities are moving towards cashless societies. On another note, legendary Seattle fast food-chain Dick’s Burgers will begin accepting debit cards and credit cards starting in September.
- D.C Circuit rejects constitutional challenge to SEC’s use of administrative law judges – Barbara S. Mishkin of Ballard Spahr writes on the CFPB monitor about how “A challenge to the constitutionality of the SEC’s use of administrative law judges (ALJ) was rejected by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.”
- Online Copyright Infringement and the DMCA Subpoena – Internet Defamation Removal Attorneys of Vorys explains how an alleged copyright infringer can potentially be identified without the filing of a lawsuit and without a judge’s signature.
- Two Timing Employee Caught in the Act – Uber Unfortunate! – Squire Patton Boggs, Employment Law Worldview, tells the story of an employee of the West Australian Newspapers Limited whom moonlighted as an Uber driver up until he picked up his manager.
- Bankruptcy Attorney Sanctioned for Using DocuSign – Like the title says, Nebraska Debt and Bankruptcy Blog explains why DocuSign will end up being costly for a California bankruptcy attorney
- Legal Landscape Special Edition: SBA Rolls Out Major Small Business Changes – Cohen Seglias, Federal Construction Contracting Blog, is doing a series to provide government contractors with a quick and easy to read summary of important legal developments and regulations of government contracting.
- Protecting Your Intellectual Property Through Estate Planning – The Virgin Island Law Blog explains how you can pass down your valuable intellectual property to the heir(s) of your choosing.
- Law Firm Lateral Hiring: Preparing for the Upcoming Free Agent Season – Managing Law Firm Transition blog by Hayse LLC takes a peak at what law firms should expect this year when it comes to law firms potentially poaching one another’s attorneys.
- Managing Environment Risk in Trade Agreements Post-Brexit: What Can We Expect? – Latham.London continues their amazing Brexit coverage, and goes down the path of what if’s regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
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