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The First Amendment gives you a lot of rights, but among them you won’t find “singing” – at least not in a post office. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week affirmed the dismissal of a claim brought by Eric Watkins, who was kicked out of a U.S. Post Office when he refused to stop singing an “antigay” song. As the Hare Krishnas found out the hard way, not all government property is open for all speech activity, all the time....

The Securities and Exchange Commission is alleging insider trading in connection with the recent sale of underwater oil company Global Industries. “Unknown purchasers” bought 685,840 shares of Global Industries stock just days before the $937 million Technip takeover. The day of the merger’s public announcement, the shares were sold for a $1.73 million profit . Regulators believe that the purchasers obtained insider information as a result of a breach of fiduciary duty....

Basic cybersecurity skills aren’t that complicated. A vigilant eye – and good filtering software – can protect you from many malicious online tricks, like phishing. Phishing, if you’re not familiar, is a form of email fraud where messages appear to be legitimate in order to steal sensitive information. An email purporting to be from your HR department, for example, could ask for your company password and poof: Russian spies are all over your email system....

The Internet is now the most popular way for people to find a lawyer. According to a new survey from FindLaw, this is a big change from just a few years ago. In 2005, only 7% of people would have used the Internet, while 65% would have asked a friend or relative. Nowadays, only 29% would ask a friend or relative, while 38% would use the Internet. Ten percent would consult a local bar association, and just 4% would consult the Yellow Pages....

Surviving a criminal investigation is not exactly a comeback, but it’s better than the alternative. Och-Ziff executives dodged a big bullet when a federal judge dismissed a bribery case against them. The judge said the Securities and Exchange Commission missed a five-year deadline to sue them. Michael Cohen and Vanja Baros may have breathed a sigh of relief, but the company is still reeling from a $412 million payment to settle related investigations....

Your paralegal’s six-year-old computer just spontaneously combusted. Or you are still running Windows XP. Either way, it’s time for new computers in the office. You’ve heard bad things about Windows 8, but your office has always run on Windows. Mac OS X or a Windows 8 PC? Learn a new operating system, or learn a new operating system? Your best bet is to find a leftover copy of Windows 7, though beware of bootlegs on second-hand and auction sites....

ConocoPhillips Co. v. EPA, No. 06-60662, involved consolidated petitions for review of a Final Rule promulgated by the EPA pursuant to section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Fifth Circuit granted several parties’ joint motion to remand and affirmed in part on the grounds that 1) pending a new rule, the EPA’s CWA section 316(b) case-by-case permitting procedure, which was in place before the Phase III Rule at issue was promulgated, would remain in effect; 2) the EPA provided adequate notice of the economic-achievability test in the rule during rule making; and 3) the EPA’s failure to estimate benefits for specific new facility locations did not render the process arbitrary or capricious....

DoNotPay, an autonomous program that has helped beat more than 160,000 parking tickets, is moving into a new field of practice. The brainchild of Stanford student Joshua Browder, the software robot now gives legal advice to refugees. It is available to those seeking asylum in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The robot works through Facebook Messenger, asking a series of questions and helping immigrants complete required forms. Unlike your local barrister, the chatbot is available around the clock....

Several JPMorgan employees were fired from their positions at the company after it was revealed that they were involved in gambling ring. They were fired shortly after when their activities started to raise the suspicions of Chase bank. Vices are to be expected with employees sooner or later. But what should you do about it? Or more importantly, what can you do about it? JPMorgan Fires Gambling Employees It seems that JPMorgan breeds risky and sometimes stupid behavior....

How many times have we told you not to click on that mysterious link? Perhaps Twitter CFO Anthony Noto wasn’t listening. On Tuesday, Noto’s Twitter account began spewing out hundreds of garbage tweets like “OMG when did you do this?” and “I can’t stop laughing!” with links attached. It’s not clear how Noto’s account was compromised. But the links to spam websites, it turns out, were likely phishing attempts – which one of our editors nearly succumbed to, though he was saved by the company firewall....

It’s hot, and no, you cannot wear shorts-suits a la AC/DC, nor LeBron James, to court. However, there are a few other things you can do to avoid being a sweaty mess in the courthouse, particularly when temps go up and the courthouse AC won’t cut it. Not only can you as a sweaty puddle distract you, it can distract jurors (who don’t have to dress as formally as you)....

One thing students typically don’t learn in law school is how to run a business. As a result, many starting attorneys have no idea how to build their own law practice. An attorney with over ten years private practice experience recently wrote of her trials and tribulations in building her practice. Through her experience, she shared several tips of things she did “accidentally” that helped her succeed, reports Psych Central. To save you the time from learning through trial and error, you may want to consider this attorney’s tips in your own practice....

We’ve all been through the three years of hazing known as law school, all the while wishing that someone would punch that gunner in the forehead. We’ve graduated, spent months studying for the bar, only to spend more months waiting for results. And when we make it out into the real world, many of us have also been through unemployment and the excruciating job hunt. And when we do land that job?...

Apple has set the bar high with its new Retina MacBook, a computer that combines the slimness of the MacBook Air with the audacious screen of the Retina MacBook Pro. The Retina MacBook isn’t the only game in town, though, when it comes to the “ultrabook” – a category of thin, low-power notebooks designed for portability and very long battery life that don’t make the sacrifices of netbooks. So what’s the best ultrabook for the money?...

Jack Cable may be a kid, but as a coder he is an internet elder. He’s like the driver who, after spotting a pothole on the highway, makes sure it gets fixed. That’s a judgment call, of course, but you can make the call yourself. Cable discovered a security flaw in LinkedIn, but when the company decided not to disclose the problem to the public, he did. Data Breach Cable found the problem on LinkedIn’s autofill feature, which lets users quickly complete forms online....

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. In the early days of the Internet, an editorial cartoon from The New Yorker depicted a dog in front of a computer monitor and keyboard with a caption that read “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The point was that people could behave however they liked online without others knowing their true identity....

Remember when everyone offered free email? At a certain point, it didn’t matter which one you picked because they were all free. The only differentiator was feature set, and for a while, all the freebies (Hotmail, Yahoo) looked exactly the same … until Gmail shook things up and everyone else played catch-up. To a certain extent, we have the same thing happening with cloud storage: it’s space, on the Internet, to store your files....

Sometimes lawyers forget that we are in the customer service business. That’s right, we are are in the same industry as the waiter, maitre d’, and valet. Smiles for miles. The customer is always right. Tips are appreciated. I’ll never forget the client who gave me that first tip – a $50 bill. Then there was the collectible artwork; the expensive watch; the silver bars – all tips from appreciative clients....

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are not hypothetical possibilities. Indeed, they have been bringing down Web sites for quite some time. Most recently, two men in Britain have been sent to prison for their DDoS attacks perpetrated on PayPal and other sites, according to InformationWeek. This reportedly marks the first instance in which DDoS perpetrators actually have been sentenced to imprisonment in Britain....

Did you really think it was going to end differently? After weeks of testimony in the sentencing phase of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the same federal jury that found him guilty April 30 sentenced him to death Friday for the bombing that killed three, and injured more than 240 others. The jury reached a verdict after deliberating for only 14 hours – just three hours more than it took them to find him guilty of all 30 counts with which he was charged....