Moneyball is moving onto another major-league diamond: Big Law, where law firm chiefs—under pressure from clients to cut costs—are re-engineering law firm management, much as the Oakland Athletics' Billy Beane did for baseball. Exploding salaries, frequent roster...
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‘Patent Trolls’ Get Biggest Piece Of Patent Pie
So-called patent trolls – which don't actually make anything – in recent years received significantly larger damages awards on average than those won by companies that make things, a new report found. Critics of "trolls," or nonpracticing entities, claim they hold...
NSA to Spy on Everyone… Everyone.
Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to...
Cell Carriers Asked for Your Data
In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a startling 1.3 million demands for subscriber information last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages, caller locations and other information in the...