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SEC Charges Former Executives of Subprime Auto Lender Over Alleged $1.9 Billion ABS Fraud
On August 18, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) charged the former CEO, CFO, and Senior Director of Finance of a Texas-based auto lending company with securities fraud in connection with the collapse of the subprime auto lender. The...
Where Will the Pieces Land? Ideker Farms and the Future of River Management
I was recently asked to speak at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the National Waterways Conference, a national trade group advocating in the areas of navigation, flood control, and water supply. Specifically, I was asked to speak on the effects of the 2023 Federal Court of...
Webinar | The AI You Didn’t Build: From Black Box to Defensible Risk
IAPP will host the webinar “The AI You Didn’t Build: From Black Box to Defensible Risk” on Sept. 24 from 8 to 9 a.m. PT. The program will focus on the risks associated with artificial intelligence embedded in third-party software and provide a...
The Atlantic Says Our Summer of Contamination Could Have Been Much Worse. It Is Right. Put E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, or Listeria on the Same Lettuce and the Arithmetic Is Thousands in the Hospital and Hundreds Dead.
Daniel Engber’s piece in The Atlantic this morning, The Truth About American Food Safety, closes with the thought that our summer of contamination could have been much worse. He is right, and the reason is not the system. It is the bug. Cyclospora...
The Cybersecurity Control Money Can’t Buy
Law firms spend enormous amounts of money protecting their networks. They use firewalls, endpoint detection, multifactor authentication, security monitoring, and email filtering. The list of technologies designed to keep attackers out keeps growing. And yet, sometimes...
PI Firms Don’t Need More Tools. They Need Fewer.
The paralegal with too many tabs open Walk into a busy personal injury firm on any Tuesday and look over a paralegal’s shoulder. Multiple tabs are open: intake, document management, a records portal, e-signature, the calendar, and a settlement spreadsheet. Ask what’s...
Want To Become A Law Professor? These Law Schools Offer The Best Odds
If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a law professor, where you earn your J.D. may play a significant role in whether you ultimately make it into the legal academy. Professor Derek Muller of Notre Dame Law School recently took a look at which law schools produced the...
Florida Bar Hides From Ethical Responsibilities, Shrugs As DHS Lawyer Compares Federal Judges To Murderers And Rapists
When the Florida Bar didn’t want to perform the most basic of its duties as the state’s designated professional licensing authority, it invented a new rule out of whole cloth to justify punting a detailed ethics complaint about then-Attorney General Pam...
Lawyers and bar associations should defend judicial independence, new report says
{mag_summary} Lawyers and bar associations should step up efforts to defend judicial independence, according to a report released Monday by the Berkeley Judicial Institute at…