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Silk Road Prosecutor Joins Latham & Watkins

Summary: Issues of cybersecurity is driving up the demand for attorneys that know the industry, leading to a high-profile prosecutor…

Leader of Silk Road 2.0 Arrested and Site Shuttered

Summary: The leader of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, has been arrested by the FBI and the website has been shuttered,…

The Future is Here! Virtual Currency to Home-delivery of Drugs on the Silk Road

It might seem futuristic, if not outright sick, but the truth is out: Drugs are being sold openly through an…

Latham & Watkins Chair Bill Voge Resigns over Sexual Communication Scandal

Summary: Latham & Watkins chair and managing partner will be stepping down and retiring from the law firm for exchanging…

Brooklyn Law Awards Alumni of the Year and Rising Star

Summary: Brooklyn Law School gave out their Alumni of the Year and Rising Star awards for 2018. Brooklyn Law School…

Lawyer Argues Psychedelic Drugs Are a Human Right

Summary: One attorney is arguing everyone should have the right to explore the depths of their own minds, even if it…

More Bitcoin Turmoil

The author of The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers – And the Coming of Cashless Society, David Wolman,…

Bitcoin in Money Laundering Operations

One of the first successful implementations of a distributed crypto-currency, Bitcoin was designed around the idea of using cryptography to…

Vice President of Bitcoin Arrested for Laundering

If money is the root of all evil, how about fake money? How about Bitcoins, this made-up currency that is…

Bitcoin Isn’t the Way of the Future

Introduced in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment network based on an open source protocol and…

A “Sprawling Black-Market Bazaar”

Ross William Ulbricht is the alleged mastermind of Silk Road. “Silk Road,” is the online marketplace that prosecutors called a…

States Deciding Whether Business May Refuse Services to Gay Couples

Summary: With the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage right around the corner, many states are deciding whether their businesses…