- Helen Rowland
DECOUPLING: Chinese Money in the U.S. Dries Up as Trade War Drags On. I don’t know about the rest, but it’s not clear to me that less money pouring into Silicon Valley and Manhattan real estate is a bad thing.
Barnaby Joyce 'struggling' on backbencher's salary – politics live - The Guardian
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Apple Watch must not become Big Brother Financial Times
You’re very easy to track down, even when your data has been anonymized MIT Technology Review
Have you spoken at a Chicago Police Board meeting? The police know more about you than you realize. Chicago Tribune
Artificial Intelligence and Law: An Overview (June 28, 2019). Georgia State University Law Review, Vol. 35, 2019; U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-22. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411869
NAB reveals 13,000-person data breach at 6PM Friday - Finance ...
SOMEBODY HAD SOME INSIDER KNOWLEDGE: Armed robbers steal at least $30 million of gold and precious metals in Sao Paulo airport heist
- 'Big Law Killed My Husband': An Open Letter From A Sidley Partner's Widow (Nov. 18, 2018)
- How One Lawyer Overcame Living With Depression In Big Law (Feb. 17, 2019)
The death by suicide of Sidley Austin partner Gabe MacConaill continues to rock the world of Biglaw. Not only did he die in a dramatic fashion — his body was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the firm’s parking garage — but after his death, his widow, Joanna Litt, wrote a provocative op-ed titled Big Law Killed My Husband. That one-two punch put a lot of attention on the stresses of Biglaw and the mental health and services available in the industry.
Now MacConaill’s death has become part of a larger conversation. Financial Times has written an article about mental health issues in the workplace, and MacConaill is featured in the story. ... [I]n the FT article, Litt doubles down on holding the firm to account for the events that led up to her husband’s death, and is angry at the firm’s lack of a robust response since MacConaill died.
Let’s rewind for a moment to February 12, 2019. Around 2:30 pm that day, The American Lawyer published an article chronicling my journey with mental health disabilities (more particularly, severe depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety.) I ruminated on the panoply of possible responses. Would I be labeled “that crazy Reed Smith lawyer” or perhaps “the attorney who spewed almost 2,000 words on his ‘mental breakdown’”? How would clients and colleagues perceive me? Would anyone even read the article?
Almost five months later, however, it would not be an exaggeration to say that “going public” with my story has changed my life—for the better—and hopefully the lives, or mindsets, of others as well (even if only incrementally).
Angus Taylor grasslands saga: the double role of the expert who gave the go-ahead
Stuart Burge, who gave the go-ahead for Angus Taylor’s company to spray pesticides, also wrote a report now being used to head off an inquiry into the spraying
E-Nudging Justice: The Role of Digital Choice Architecture in Online Courts
Sela, Ayelet, E-Nudging Justice: The Role of .
Analysts who are pro-Trump likely will say today’s hearings confirmed no
collusion or obstruction. Pundits who are critical of the president likely will
point to various Mueller remarks as proof that Trump acted improperly, and will
demand impeachment hearings.
Viewers who support the president likely will take their cues
from Fox News and those who are against the president will turn elsewhere,
perhaps MSNBC. But there will be plenty of choices.
All the major networks, plus PBS, most of the cable news
stations and C-Span will provide wall-to-wall coverage. The Washington Post
also will have live stream coverage. As I mentioned above, there’s a chance we
won’t hear much new today, but that won’t stop a conga line of analysts from
putting their spin on the testimony to fill time on that non-stop coverage.
With all that time to fill, the analysis might make for more entertaining — yet
less substantive — TV than the actual hearings.
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