Author: Errica Jensen

A student is sitting down to write a final exam that will determine a significant portion of their professional trajectory somewhere in a law school building—pick any one, the details are beginning to feel interchangeable. They have been studying doctrine, creating outlines, and reading cases for weeks. The test is important. In contrast to most other graduate programs, law school grades have a significant impact on clerkship applications, firm hiring decisions, and the unseen sorting mechanisms that continue to operate in the legal profession for decades after graduation. Now imagine that a language model was given the student’s response and…

The first thing you notice when you walk into Lima Ridge Elementary on a typical Tuesday morning is the noise—not the chaotic kind, but the productive kind. The sound of materials being handled, the low hum of children solving problems, and the sporadic excited shout when something clicked. In this building, science seems to permeate every aspect of the day, including how teachers converse with one another in the hallways, rather than being limited to a specific time or space. That culture wasn’t created by chance. Kurt Scheiderer, the principal of Lima Ridge Elementary, recently received the Administrator Award for…

Watching a 26-year marriage fall apart on a Bravo reality show is unique; it’s the kind of domestic breakup that might have remained private in a different era but is processed in real time with cameras rolling, castmates listening, and the Internet forming opinions by the episode. The divorce became more than just a plot point when Rachel Zoe joined The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for its fifteenth season; it became the backdrop for almost everything she said and did on screen during a trying year. Rachel Zoe and Rodger Berman’s divorce, which was finalized in April 2026 with…

A Harvard undergraduate started creating what would eventually become the most powerful social network in the world while sitting in his Kirkland House dorm room in the fall of 2003. He required cash. To be honest, he didn’t understand business, so he needed someone who did. He discovered both in his friend Eduardo Saverin, an economics student from a wealthy family who was born in Brazil. Saverin was well-known on campus for wearing a suit and tie to class and for having made $300,000 in oil futures by forecasting hurricane patterns when he was still a teenager. Saverin appeared to…

For many years, Tom’s of Maine has occupied a specific section of the personal care aisle. This is the type of product that consumers turn to when they want to feel good about what they’re putting into their bodies. The packaging is subtle. The list of ingredients is readable. The brand was founded in a small Maine town on the principles of natural formulation and transparency, and it maintained that identity even after Colgate-Palmolive reportedly paid $100 million to acquire it in 2006. Purchasing Tom’s was more than just a purchase for many customers; it was an expression of their…

Anyone who has purchased tickets online is familiar with the emotion. You locate the seats you want, click on them, and a screen with a seemingly reasonable price appears. However, somewhere between that point and the checkout confirmation—typically in the last seconds before a countdown timer expires—the number has increased in ways that are hard to link to a single moment of disclosure. fees for services. fees for fulfillment. processing orders. The ticket that was originally priced at $80 is now $127. Either you accept it or you have to start over and forfeit your seats. The Federal Trade Commission…

When they receive a letter from Midland Credit Management, the majority of people go through something akin to controlled panic. The letter arrives, sometimes unexpectedly, sometimes after years of silence on a debt they had partially forgotten, and it uses language that is meant to move quickly. legal evaluation. participation of an attorney. an already-passed deadline. Pay now or suffer the repercussions. Many people who are sitting at kitchen tables staring at that paper have an innate tendency to either call right away and agree to something or stuff it in a drawer and hope it disappears. Midland Credit Management…

Beyond the typical rhythms of a data breach lawsuit, there is something very uneasy about the 23andMe story. Passwords, email addresses, and credit card numbers—sensitive but ultimately replaceable information—are involved in the majority of breaches. You alter your password. A card is cancelled. You go on. There is currently no legal precedent for what happened to 23andMe’s customers in the fall of 2023 because genetic data was taken. the type of data that remains constant. the type that cannot be reset or cancelled. On October 6, 2023, the breach was made public. Hackers had employed a method known as “credential…

Most iPhone users have experienced the moment when a notification alerting them that their iCloud storage is almost full appears, usually on a Tuesday morning when they’re feeling impatient. The choices it offers, such as managing what is backed up or upgrading your plan, are presented as sensible options. A federal court in California is currently being asked to determine whether that particular moment was actually a choice at all or if it was the inevitable result of a market that Apple had covertly set up to guarantee that the data could only go to one location. Felix Gamboa v.…

A tiny cylindrical gadget is positioned between a framed family photo and a houseplant on a bookshelf in a suburban American living room. When you say its name, the blue ring on top of it illuminates. or occasionally when you don’t. One of the more significant privacy cases presently making its way through the federal courts revolves around this distinction—the difference between when Alexa is supposed to be listening and when it appears to be. Since June 2021, when plaintiffs initially claimed that Amazon Echo devices were recording and storing user conversations even when no one had spoken the wake…