Gun owners take pride in their firearms and in the accoutrements needed to keep their weapon and carry it safely—ammunition, cleaning kits, a gun safe. Now a growing number of gun owners are brandishing another must-have accessory: an attorney. Following a string of high-profile gun incidents, there’s a renewed awareness…
For two decades, a pair of monumental statues guarded the entrance to the Southeast Asian galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. These days, all that remains of them are two faint patches on the floor where they stood until a year ago.
On May 20, 2013, the millennium-old statues, known as the Kneeling Attendants, disappeared. They were gently wrapped, crated and moved to a backroom so they could be returned to Cambodia, their country of origin.
Across the country, law firms are looking to their office space for answers. They’re seeking the best ways to effectively reduce expensive square footage. To boost efficiency. To foster the cohesion, collaboration and teamwork necessary for success in an age where lawyers don’t need to be in the building—and some…
Editor’s Note: Richard Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, a senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago and, some would reckon, a force of nature. He’s a prolific author whose seemingly endless curriculum vitae includes books on topics as varied…
A few years ago, Montana real estate agent Crystal Cox got into a public spat with the National Association of Realtors. She had taken an interest in the bankruptcy of an Oregon company that held customers’ cash during property exchanges, according to the New York Times. A federal grand jury…
Quicken Loans hired Lydia Garza in 2006 at its Scottsdale, Arizona, Web center. Like 1,700 other mortgage bankers for the Detroit-based lender, Garza signed an employment contract with broad confidentiality and nondisparagement provisions. She agreed to hold “in the strictest of confidence” any “nonpublic information relating to or regarding the…
These days the smallest and most exclusive piece of real estate in Washington, D.C., is the sliver of common ground that exists between congressional Democrats and Republicans. But during a January hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on the scope of copyright protection laws, Democrats and Republicans were in broad agreement on an issue that was seemingly settled long ago: No one can own the law.
Last year in West Virginia, 28-year-old Avishek Sengupta was running the Tough Mudder, a grueling 10-plus-mile race littered with merciless obstacles that take participants over blazing pits of fire, through dark trenches and into pools of water laced with electrical wires that deliver 10,000 volts. When Sengupta approached the obstacle…
On the 25th floor of the high-rise where Foley & Lardner has its Chicago offices, some of the city’s most promising high-tech startup companies have set up shop in a space the firm set aside just for them. The companies include an e-commerce site for fashion, an online learning company,…
Which should come first: California’s right to regulate how eggs are sold or other states’ rights to regulate their farms? That’s the question that drives six states in their lawsuit against California, filed in federal court in Fresno. The states are taking issue with a California law banning the sale…
