Virtual Legal Department

I was going to highlight the 30-year Baltimore Sun veteran who just discovered he's allergic to newspaper ink as a study in why worker's compensation insurance is so important . . . and then I saw that a CNN anchor had filed a $25MM lawsuit accusing Johnny Manziel of terrorizing her with his incredibly small p***s and had to go with that instead.

Insane $25 Million Lawsuit Vs. Johnny Manziel Alleges, Well, Everything We don't really know what to make of this, but a tipster just sent along a motion for a restraining order that a woman named Samantha Schacher recently filed against Johnny Manziel in Florida. The motion asks for $25 million in damages, and contains lines like: "On Christmas Eve, 2013, Johnny Manzie…

How government-sanctioned collusion in the health care industry makes medical residents indentured servants.

Medical Residents Are Standing Up to Hospitals That Collude to Keep Wages Low Two years ago, I received my first employment contract. Not long after Match Day, I did what 115,000 physicians in training did that year and will do again this year: I signed the contract promptly and returned it. I tried to read the contract carefully, but it didn’t really matter. Unless you...

NYT fires executive editor in classic study of how retaliation lawsuits come about. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/05/why-jill-abramson-was-fired.html

Some hackers are part of international crime syndicates. Some are moron rednecks. All can hurt your business.

Dunkin’ Donuts blames hackers for racist help-wanted ad Three days after the offensive, typo-riddled ad was posted on Craigslist - seeking 'personable white people' and 'no welfare chasers' - it has been flagged for removal. Dunkin' Donuts' corporate office blamed hackers for its posting for a shop in Trussville, Ala.