Author: Aron Solomon

A Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer, Aron Solomon, JD, is the Chief Strategy Officer for AMPLIFY. He has taught entrepreneurship at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania, and was elected to Fastcase 50, recognizing the top 50 legal innovators in the world. Aron has been featured in Newsweek, The Hill, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, CBS News, CNBC, USA Today, ESPN, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Venture Beat, The Independent, Fortune China, Abogados, Today’s Esquire, Yahoo!, ABA Journal, Law.com, The Boston Globe, and many other leading publications across the globe. 

By Staff Writer This article originally appeared in Insider. Brittney Griner has been in Russian custody for more than three months. On February 17, the WNBA superstar was arrested at a Moscow airport and subsequently detained after Russian customs agents claimed she was traveling with hashish oil in her luggage. Just one week later, Russia sent troops across the border to Ukraine. The move from Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government sparked a brutal ground war the two nations are still fighting today. For those close to Griner, including her wife, Cherelle, the invasion stoked fears regarding the two-time…

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By Aron Solomon This article first appeared in Inside Sources. Baby formula was in the news earlier this year because of what was perceived to be among the worst baby formula safety concerns and supply shortages in history. The lawsuits against the makers of baby formula market share leaders, Enfamil and Similac, put baby formula in the news cycle during the winter. Families whose premature infants were injured or died by being fed baby formula and then developed a dangerous intestinal disease known as necrotizing enterocolitis filed lawsuits against the manufacturers. Today, baby formula is again in the news because…

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This article originally appeared in The Western Journal. By Michael Austin Three days before Elon Musk announced his offer to buy 100 percent of Twitter’s shares, Aron Solomon correctly predicted the self-made billionaire would make such a move “within days.” Solomon, the chief legal analyst for Esquire Digital, did as much in an interview with The Western Journal in which Solomon laid out what a potential Musk “Twitter endgame” would look like. Now, Solomon has a new prediction — what Musk’s critical “Plan B” will be should his current move to purchase Twitter end in failure. On Thursday, during a TED2022 conference…

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By Aron Solomon This article originally appeared on Fortune.com: https://fortune.com/2022/04/06/future-starbucks-unions-workers-next-ceo-howard-schultz-baristas-labor-shortage-pandemic-aron-solomon/.” Starbucks has announced that its CEO, Kevin Johnson, is stepping down to be replaced by former CEO Howard Schultz as interim head of the company. While Johnson signaled a year ago that he would soon leave his role, he has left Starbucks without a permanent leader in place. A perfect example of how Starbucks dropped the ball over the past year, and why Schultz may not be the ideal steward, even on a temporary basis, is the company’s ongoing struggle with unionization, with which Schultz has been intimately involved. Few of us think…

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By Staff Writer Following the guilty verdict in the Elizabeth Holmes trial early this year, her former partner and Theranos COO Sunny Balwani now stands trial for his role in defrauding investors. Scott Budman of NBC Bay Area returned to the San Jose courthouse this week to continue coverage of the latest developments in the Theranos saga. According to Budman, the prosecution in the second Theranos case today tried to link Sunny Balwani to Elizabeth Holmes, when it comes to a key decision to mislead investors into believing that Theranos had a working relationship with pharma-giant Pfizer, and to put…

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This article first appeared on Foxnews.com. Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of New Mexico, will be working at the behest of Brittney Griner’s family to help secure her release, Fox News Digital confirmed Tuesday. Griner was arrested in February after Russian officials claimed a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis. Griner could face up to a decade in prison if she’s convicted. She’s expected to have a hearing in Russia on May 19. Richardson’s involvement came at the same time the U.S. State Department said in a…

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By Aron Solomon While all advertising portrays a certain angle of the truth, ads can’t tell real whoppers, as Burger King recently found out. A new lawsuit claims that Burger King did what pretty much every food advertiser does, which is make their food look better than it is. Burger King, though, literally inflated their Whoppers, making its food look bigger in ads than it is in real life. There is a line between the hyperbole we have to endure in advertising and straight-up lies, which is why the Federal Trade Commission has rules governing what brands can and can’t…

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This article first appeared in The Western Journal. Three days before Elon Musk announced his offer to buy 100 percent of Twitter’s shares, Aron Solomon correctly predicted the self-made billionaire would make such a move “within days.” Solomon, the chief legal analyst for Esquire Digital, did as much in an interview with The Western Journal in which Solomon laid out what a potential Musk “Twitter endgame” would look like. Now, Solomon has a new prediction — what Musk’s critical “Plan B” will be should his current move to purchase Twitter end in failure. On Thursday, during a TED2022 conference in Vancouver merely…

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