Category Archives: Law Students

Fromer: Machines as Keepers of Trade Secrets

I really enjoyed Jeanne Fromer's new article, Machines as the New Oompa-Loompas: Trade Secrecy, the Cloud, Machine Learning, and Automation, forthcoming in the N.Y.U. Law Review and available on SSRN. I think Professor Fromer has an important insight that more use … Continue reading

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Are Smartwatches and Fitness-tracking Wearables Medical Devices? Should They Be?

By: Matthew Jurgensmeier Pedometers have been around for hundreds of years. More advanced GPS-tracking devices are much newer, and have been gaining popularity over the last decade. The first real “smartwatch” that could pair with a user’s phone emerged around … Continue reading

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Be Careful What You Bargain For

Author:Michael Mondelli III Case Citation:Bailey v. Brookdale Univ. Hosp. Med. Ctr., No. CV162195 (ADS) (AKT), 2017 WL 2616957, (E.D.N.Y. June 16, 2017). Employee/Personnel/Employer Implicated:Plaintiff’s Counsel eLesson Learned:Attorneys should be sure to scrupulously inquire into what sort of information their client … Continue reading

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Law School Specialty Program Rankings: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?

Robert Kuehn, Washington University School of Law In addition to its annual ranking of law schools, U.S. News ranks nine law school specialty programs. Although the school rankings rely on a number of factors to compute a final score (peer … Continue reading

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Making the most of the YLD Spring Conference as a law student

I remember walking into my first ABA Conference as a 2L.  I was interested in Employment Law and the ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law’s Annual Conference just happened to be in Atlanta, right down the street.  Like the … Continue reading

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