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Harold T. Martin III has been facing up to 10 years in prison for allegedly stealing classified government information, but he may soon face another 30 years as prosecutors plan to file espionage charges against him. In any case, the former contractor for the National Security Agency is not going anywhere for a long time. Unlike Eric Snowden who fled the country after he leaked classified information, Martin is in jail....

In 2009, U.S. citizen Gulet Mohamed went to the Middle East to study Arabic. He visited to several countries, including Yemen and Somalia. Then he moved to Kuwait. In 2010, he tried to renew his visitor’s visa but was instead handcuffed, blindfolded, and held in detention for a week while being tortured. And you thought renewing your driver’s license was hard. Kuwaiti officials tried to deport him, but it turned out that Mohamed’s name was on a No-Fly List, so he can’t return to the United States....

Have a favorite local court? Practice exclusively in a specialty court? FindLaw has just made tracking new caselaw a lot easier. FindLaw’s new RSS caselaw feeds provide the solo or small firm lawyer with targeted, practice-specific links to new cases in over 80 courts around the country. If you want to see only Ninth Circuit cases, or only cases from the California Supreme Court – we’ve got the feed for you....

Everyone who has ever practiced law has opposing counsel horror stories. This shouldn’t be surprising. After all, you remember some of the weirdos from your law school class. How many of them are practicing attorneys? In hope that this will help you correct your bad behavior — or indulge in a misery-loves-company therapeutic rant — here are five ways attorneys irritate the other side. Pass off case calls to a series of attorneys in the firm The attorney of record doesn’t answer his phone....

Prison Legal News, a monthly publication by the Human Rights Defense Center, isn’t allowed in Florida state prisons. No, it’s not the magazine’s investigations into prison vendor misconduct or its reporting on inmate rights. According to the Florida Department of Corrections, it’s the magazine’s objectionable advertisements. Those ads? They’re for things like stamps, three-way calling services, and pen pals. Prison Legal News sued over the ban, which was largely upheld in October....

There’s very little doubt that the General Data Privacy Regulation, a.k.a. the GDPR, has created an onerous burden on companies that do business globally, especially on the web. However, recent reports about how tech giant Facebook handles GDPR reporting might make you think twice about how your company is operating. Apparently, Facebook is under the impression that the 72-hour reporting requirement (companies must report data breaches within 72-hours per the GDPR) doesn’t get triggered until after the company determines that the breach falls under the GDPR....

As in-house counsel, you are probably well aware of the risks to the company if gender discrimination is allowed to take place. One might assume that large companies have rules and systems in place to prevent any kind of widespread gender discrimination. But as a recent lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New York demonstrates, that’s not always the case. “Goldman Sachs Sued,” was the headline in the financial world Wednesday....

Skype is A-OK for attorney-client privilege, right? Actually – and you know this was coming – it turns out the answer is a little more complicated than that. As electronic communication supplants the many ways in which we communicate with each other (and our clients), it has forced us lawyers to become competent in the many ways in which it has complicated the profession. This is especially the case when it comes to issues of compliance and privilege....

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. Lawyers should know how to protect information belonging to their firms and their clients, right? Well, perhaps they can do a better job, according to The Wall Street Journal. Indeed, it’s now more important than ever for lawyers’ cybersecurity skills to get up to speed. According to the article, hackers intent on insider trading may target attorneys who handle merger and acquisition transactions....

A Puerto Rican government worker has lost his political discrimination suit after the First Circuit ruled on Friday that he could show no evidence that his employment actions were politically motivated. Victor Santiago Diaz, a teacher and administrator in the island’s Department of Education, had claimed that he suffered employment discrimination after a new political party came into power. However, Santiago didn’t have any strong evidence to back up that claim, the First Circuit ruled....

The success of a modern law practice is directly related to how visible the firm is on the internet and on social media. For better or worse, this is the business paradigm of the millennials. But you should never discount the efficacy of some of the tried and true techniques. Sometimes, the old ways are best. For example, few methods are better at building up business networking-nodes than hosting your own networking event....

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the internet. Changes keep coming fast, and now nine companies that recently have been part of a program intended to offer subsidized internet access to low-income users have been informed by the Federal Communications Commission that they must not offer this service, according to a recent article by the International Business Times. This position by the new leadership of the FCC represents a complete pivot from a ruling only weeks before by prior FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler....

Florida has dabbled in kosher cuisine. From 2004 to 2007, seven prisons administered kosher meals to inmates under the Jewish Dietary Accommodation Program (JDAP). For unknown reasons (likely budgetary), the program was discontinued. In 2010, they tried a pilot program, though it only existed at one prison in South Florida. Since Rich filed his initial suit, the situation has shifted a bit. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the Florida Dep’t of Corrections targeting their non-Kosher practices....

When James Strother retired as general counsel of Wells Fargo, he hoped to leave all that behind him. Strother retired last year after 30 years with the company and its predecessor, including a sales scandal that kept him from leaving at the mandatory retirement age. Now another legal problem has brought him back into the mix. A new lawsuit claims Strother and other Wells Fargo executives knew its auto insurance program was hurting customers, but kept it going for years....

Digital Storage and Necessities External hard drives are important. Currently, there are a few good deals already on select external hard drives of various sizes. If you don’t have one of these, or the ones you’ve been using are starting to show signs of wear, picking one up on Prime Day might be a good way to save a few bucks on essential tech that you need. In addition to digital storage, you may want to consider checking out the prices on other digital necessities during Prime Day....

You may have heard about jurors who can’t stop texting, tweeting, Facebooking during a trial. Some judges consider such behavior annoying. Others consider it grounds for a mistrial. Instead of leaving the questions of where social media and smartphones cross the line up to a trial judge or appellate court, the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (CACM) has proposed model jury instructions regarding electronic technology use during trial....

Love is in the air – or maybe that’s just the air pollution being caused by everyone turning on their fireplaces for a romantic evening at home. After all, Valentine’s Day isn’t just a holiday for candy companies, florists, and edible underwear salesmen. Believe it or not, lawyers can also benefit from Valentine’s Day, and not just in the form of gavel-shaped chocolates. As it turns out, the holiday can be quite lucrative....

Litigators usually aren’t natural investigators, but in-house counsel can often be called on to play that role. Whether it’s responding to an allegation of harassment, accusations of discrimination, or internal whistle blowing, in-house counsel will sometimes have to play the role of Sherlock Holmes, rather than … whoever played Sherlock’s lawyer. That means taking a different approach to investigating complaints, often beginning with a simple investigatory interview. Here are seven tips to help guide your way through the investigation process....

Petition for review of the State of Maryland Department of the Environment’s denial of a request for water quality certification, involving a proposed large-scale liquefied natural gas marine import terminal and pipeline project, is denied where: 1) Maryland waived any potential claim of sovereign immunity in connection with the present petition for review by expressly consenting to defending, in federal court, its decision to deny AES’s Request for section 401(a)(1) Water Quality Certification; and 2) AES failed to establish any basis to disturb the Army Corps of Engineers’ determination that Maryland had not waived its right to grant or deny AES’s section 401(a)(1) Certification Request....

Cerberus Capital Management agreed to buy Safeway for more than $9 billion and plans to merge it with Albertsons. Safeway, the second largest grocer in the U.S., will merge with Albertsons, the fifth largest grocer, which Cerberus bought from SuperValu last year, Forbes reports. But this deal may not be in the (brown paper) bag quite just yet. Even if Albertsons and Safeway merge, the combined company would still be slightly smaller than Kroger, the largest grocery retailer in the U....