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Hamza Shaban, The Washington Post Published 2:09 pm PDT, Friday, October 19, 2018 Author Anand Giridharadas sees the disappearance of a U.S.-based Saudi journalist as a dramatic illustration of Silicon Valley's hypocrisy: While new-age technology companies tout their idealism and world-changing missions, many popular tech firms rely on investments from the government of Saudi Arabia, despite what Giridharadas describes as the kingdom's barbaric politics and suspected involvement in the alleged assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The alleged murder of Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi agents has ignited a global outrage and entangled the Trump administration in a diplomatic quandary. Turkish and U.S. intelligence officials suspect that Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist, was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey on Oct 2, where he was last seen in public. Saudi leaders deny knowledge of Khashoggi's disappearance but have … [Read more...] about Anand Giridharadas: The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi highlights Silicon Valley’s Saudi hypocrisy

Another Silicon Valley-based tech firm laid off a significant number of legal staff yesterday and froze associate salaries.However, Fenwick & West didn’t ax any attorneys in its effort to cope with the disastrous national economy, reports the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, citing unnamed sources.Its report of staff layoffs at 300-attorney Fenwick follows announcements within the past 10 days that two major Silicon Valley-based law firms, Cooley Godward Kronish and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, are each laying off approximately 50 lawyers and even larger numbers of staff members.“We’re going to see more layoffs, and that’s because the aggregate demand for legal services is at very best flat but in most cases down,” legal consultant Ward Bower of Altman Weil Inc. tells the Business Journal. “It depends on where your are in the country. It’s terrible in places like New York and other financial centers.” Earlier … [Read more...] about Silicon Valley’s Fenwick Axes 36 Staff, Freezes Associate Pay

By Julia Prodis Sulek | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: October 30, 2018 at 4:03 pm | UPDATED: October 30, 2018 at 4:04 pm SANTA CLARA — Anita Hill, whose historic testimony against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas 27 years ago transformed the women’s movement, implored a record-setting crowd on Tuesday to not despair despite being “jolted back to the past, a past we all believed we as a nation had grown beyond.” “We could not imagine that an eloquent and thoughtful and sincere Christine Blasey Ford would speak to a group of senators whose interest was not in getting the truth, but was with getting on with their own particular agenda,” said Hill, whose testimony in 1991 failed to convince the Senate Judiciary Committee back them to stop Thomas’s confirmation. “Who knew that Christine Blasey Ford in 2018 did not have the privilege of being heard and the privilege of being believed.” Some 1,900 … [Read more...] about Anita Hill to crowd at YWCA Silicon Valley: “I will not retreat now.”

Much attention has rightly been focused on the glass ceiling discrimination that exists in many of the most profitable industries in America, including the financial and technology sectors.One issue, however, that has not been explored as deeply is the under-representation of Asian-American employees in the executive ranks (dubbed the “bamboo ceiling”) of technology companies.The “bamboo ceiling:”  another form of promotion discrimination in Silicon ValleyAn in-depth analysis of publicly available information from some of the top technology companies, including Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo, sheds some revealing light on the dearth of Asian-American executives across the industry.Although Asian-American employees are actually in some cases over-represented in non-management positions in these five tech companies, they are, according to Ascend Foundation‘s research, “severely underrepresented at the … [Read more...] about The “bamboo ceiling” and the lack of Asian-American executives in Silicon Valley

In January, the National Law Review had pleasure of attending the Annual Marketing Partner Forum in beautiful Rancho Palos Altos, California. Programing was provided by the Legal Executives Institute at Thomson Reuters and featured over 15 hours of dynamic workshops. Hundreds of  marketing partners, managing partners, in-house counsel and senior-level marketing and business development professionals were in attendance.The “New Competition” program featured emerging legal technologies within Silicon Valley. Catherine Hammack of Jurispect, Monica Zent of Foxwordy, and Daniel Lewis of Ravel Law each showcased their innovative technologies and shared their thoughts as to where innovation is taking the legal industry in 2015. “ Jurispect will help fundamentally transform how companies operate by providing organizations with a real-time analytical view of both exposure and opportunities to take proactive steps to manage legal and regulatory risk. ”  - … [Read more...] about The New Competition – Emerging Legal Technologies Out of Silicon Valley