Although it might go against a lawyer’s natural propensities toward risk aversion, some practitioners have started accepting payments in digital currencies amid the bitcoin boom. “I’ve known for a long time that my opportunity to expand in certain areas has been affected by not taking it,” said Carol Van Cleef, a Washington, D.C. lawyer who …
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Associate Departs Big Law to Create Pro Se Online Startup
Although she spent the first six years of her career in Big Law, California attorney Dorna Moini always knew that her true passion was in human rights and access to justice. After graduating from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in 2012, Moini, who has dual citizenship in the United States and …
Call Her the Constable of Cryptocurrency
Once upon a time there was a hero who took down the corrupt French Maid, who had manipulated and stolen from the Dread Pirate Roberts on The Silk Road. It sounds like the plot line of a swashbuckler movie, but actually, it’s part of the tale of Kathryn Haun’s rise as a federal prosecutor who …
Don’t Know What Blockchain Is? You Should. This Law Prof Can Help.
Bitcoin. Ethereum. Blockchain. It sounds like a foreign language, clouded in mystery. But with billions of dollars flowing through cryptocurrency systems, and governments and major companies looking to blockchain technology to reform a wide variety of critical record-keeping systems, law students and lawyers need to get up to speed. Even with great change brewing, only …


