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International Edition

Will the Metaverse Help Young Lawyers Break New Ground?

In this week's Asia Legal Briefing, Law.com International's Jessica Seah discusses how partners at the world's largest law firms still have huge gaps in their knowledge of all things crypto, metaverse and Web3-related, and what this means—or should mean—for younger lawyers going forward.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Federal Judge Orders New Securities Trial for Crypto-Product 'Paycoins'

While a federal judge upheld a jury's verdict that three cryptocurrency-related products were not securities as a matter of state or federal law, he sided with the plaintiffs' request for a new trial over a fourth product, Paycoin.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Why Bitcoin Sees Most of Its Gains While US Traders Sleep

A hypothetical strategy that buys the coin at the equity-market close and sells it at the next day's open yields gains of roughly 260% going back to the start of 2020, according to Bespoke Investment Group.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

BitGo Hires GC of Deutsche Bank's Broker-Dealer Unit as Legal Chief

Ira Wurcel, who was with the multinational bank nearly 15 years, most recently was general counsel of its broker-dealer unit, Deutsche Bank Securities.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

In New Approach, Big Law Firm Uses NFT to Serve Court Papers on Anonymous Defendants

"This gives us one mechanism to at least serve legal process on a person who controls an address that's involved with the virtual currency that was affected," said Andrew Balthazor of Holland & Knight.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Bitcoin Payment Processor Adds Remote General Counsel

Allison Raley is departing a law firm to become the general counsel of one of the oldest cryptocurrency companies.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

Attorney of the Year: Amanda McGovern Stood Between a $600 Billion Verdict and Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor

"I think it is fair to say that everybody thought we were going to lose," Amanda McGovern said.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

Will Other States Follow in California's Footsteps Regarding Cryptocurrency Regulation?

"The California order did have a few interesting points worth highlighting, however, such as anticipating that traditional, chartered banks and credit unions are going to be involved in holding or accounting for cryptocurrency assets," attorney Aviva Gilbert said.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Bitcoin Reclaims $31,000 Level After Weeks of Languishing

Bitcoin has been trading around the $30,000 level for weeks now, defying predictions of a potential further decline but also struggling to gain upward momentum as the broader U.S. market has also taken a beating.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Paradigm Poaches Brex's Ex-Legal Chief for Top Lawyer Role

"The future is obvious, and it's our job to make it happen in partnership with regulators," Katie Biber stated.
3 minute read

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