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SEC Asks Federal Court to Compel Jay-Z to Testify Regulators want to talk to the rapper about Iconix, the company he sold his clothing line Rocawear to in 2007. Read More

Equifax Judge Warns Lawyers to Limit Record-Sealing Requests U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash issued a 34-page protective order in the Equifax data breach multidistrict litigation... Read More

$3M Age-Bias Settlement Compensates Restaurant's Unsuccessful Job Applicants Courts of appeals are split on whether companies can be held liable for discriminating against older job seekers based... Read More

Marc Mukasey Says He Won't Follow Giuliani To Trump Legal Team Mukasey said he will remain at Greenberg Traurig, which removed Rudy Giuliani from its website this week. Read More

Tearing Down the House that Richard Cordray Built By C. Ryan Barber While some have described the CFPB as in a state of “radio silence since late November, others said the agency's... Read More

Cybersecurity Chair Rejoins Saul Ewing, Leaving Senate's Russia Probe April Doss said battling threats to U.S. democracy would be a "marathon," but it was time for her to return to private... Read More

PRO BONO The Pro Bono Hot List: Win Allows Inspection of LGBT Bias at Trial By Erin Mulvaney A team from Akerman pushed back against a judge's decision not to allow attorneys to question jurors about potential... Read More INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY | NEWS Doubting UC Researchers May Sink CRISPR Appeal By Scott Graham Initial concerns that gene editing technology might not work on humans are substantial evidence supporting subsequent... Read More

Rod Rosenstein Knocks Senate Pace for Confirming Main Justice Nominees “Congress has actually moved fairly quickly in confirming our U.S. attorneys, in contrast to some of our Main Justice... Read More

Eight Latham Partners Named as Candidates To Replace Bill Voge Partners in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and London are vying to lead the 2,400-lawyer firm following Voge's... Read More

Ahead of the Curve: A Pitch to Future JDs | The Law School Hustle | This Is How You Pass the Bar | Law.com Can a new online learning program reach minority undergraduates interested in law school? Plus we examine how Florida... Read More

Catching Up With Carter Phillips | The Haiku Amicus Brief | Jeff Fisher\'s Expanded Role | Supreme Court Brief | National Law Journal We caught up with Sidley Austin's Carter Phillips before his big argument Tuesday in a closely watched antitrust case.... Read More

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility | The Legal Intelligencer The Legal Intelligencer I have $2000 in my IOLTA account that I cannot account for any longer and it’s been there many years. Can I take that... Read More

'Mommy Track Is a Dead End' at MoFo, Associates Claim in New Lawsuit The proposed class action is the latest gender bias case brought by plaintiffs firm Sanford Heisler Sharp, whose other... Read More

UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT | Q&A Looking Back at Scalia's Controversial 'Long Game' By Tony Mauro Best known for his expertise in election law, Rick Hasen's new book takes a broad view of what he sees as the inconsistencies... Read More

CLASS ACTIONS | NEWS

Top 100 Verdicts: Appeal to Jurors' Emotions By John Schneider A multi-billion dollar verdict involving breaches of fiduciary duty scores the top award in the 2017 list by NLJ-affiliate... Read More

Looking Back at Scalia’s Controversial 'Long Game' Best known for his expertise in election law, Rick Hasen’s new book takes a broad view of what he sees as the inconsistencies... Read More

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS US Supreme Court Finally Takes a 'Cy Pres' Case, and This One Involves Google By Marcia Coyle Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., writing in a 2013 case, said cy pres relief raised "fundamental concerns." The Google... Read More

CRIMINAL LAW Wilmer's Ron Machen Negotiated Panasonic's $280M Foreign-Bribery Penalties By C. Ryan Barber The penalties come a year after Panasonic Avionics disclosed the California-based subsidiary was being investigated... Read More

Sotomayor Will Undergo 'Reverse Shoulder Replacement Surgery' After Fall at Home The justice will curtail activities for the next few weeks, the court said. She also will wear a sling for several weeks... Read More

ANNOUNCING: The 2018 Pro Bono Hot List Read More

Will DNC Civil Suit Against Trump, Russia Lead to an E-Discovery Battle? Getting to the discovery stage could prove challenging, but if it does, one expert says it "really opens the door for... Read More

CIVIL RIGHTS | NEWS Federal Judiciary Employees Plan Challenge to New Rules Limiting Political Activity By Tony Mauro “The political activities restricted are at the heart of what the First Amendment protects, ACLU lawyer Scott... Read More

LAW FIRM COMPETITION | NEWS Fish & Richardson Is Wharf Pioneer in DC Office Move By Ryan Lovelace The firm is set to become the first Big Law tenant at the multibillion-dollar Wharf development along the Potomac River. Read More

Ready or Not … Here Comes the GDPR Here’s a riddle: What can the cult science fiction film "The Matrix" teach us about the GDPR? To find out, you’ll need... Read More

LAW FIRM COMPETITION | NEWS Making Lawyers Happier; Ty Cobb's Millions; Dentons Departures By Ryan Lovelace The mental state of the legal industry was on the agenda at an ABA conference in Washington. Also in this week's Washington... Read More

Blood Draw Should Require a Warrant | New Jersey Law Journal In Zalcberg the court not only failed to interpret New Jersey’s Constitution as requiring that a warrant be obtained... Read More

Greenberg Traurig\'s Kara MacCullough Closes $3.65B Deal for Wireless Company | Daily Business Review Daily Business Review MacCullough led a team of Greenberg Traurig attorneys to close financing for SBA Communications Corp. Read More

Catching Up With Carter Phillips | The Haiku Amicus Brief | Jeff Fisher\'s Expanded Role | Supreme Court Brief | National Law Journal Daily Business Review We caught up with Sidley Austin's Carter Phillips before his big argument Tuesday in a closely watched antitrust case.... Read More

This Week’s Top Stories

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS SCOTUS Gives Prized Nod to Arnold & Porter's Lisa Blatt at Travel Ban Argument

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Editor's Picks

Amid Mueller Probe, Gregory Craig Retires From Skadden The former White House counsel has left Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Washington, D.C., as the firm’s ties... Read More

The 2018 Am Law 100 The country's largest law firms thumbed their proverbial noses at tough market conditions, posting some of the most... Read More

Trump Is Close to Being Right on the Attorney-Client Privilege—But for All the Wrong Reasons Although for an entirely wrong reason, the president wasn’t too far away from being right about the present condition... Read More

10 Reasons To Be Glad You're Not An In-House Lawyer at Michigan State University The university where Larry Nassar abused athletes for two decades is facing investigations on almost every imaginable... Read More

#MeToo Comes to CLOC, As Female In-House Leaders Share Their Stories of Workplace Sexism On its opening day, the CLOC Institute featured a frank discussion between female in-house leaders about gender and... Read More

Law Grads Hiring Report: Job Stats for the Class of 2017 The law class of 2017 overall fared better in the entry-level job market, but national figures obscure the extreme stratification... Read More