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CRIMINAL LAW | NEWS Former Tax Prosecutor Jay Nanavati in DC Joins Manafort Defense Team By C. Ryan Barber Jay Nanavati, a partner at Kostelanetz & Fink in Washington and a former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, formally... Read More CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS Baltimore State's Attorney Mosby Can't Be Sued by Cops in Freddie Gray Death Prosecution, Circuit Rules By Michael Booth "We soundly reject the invitation to cast aside decades of Supreme Court and circuit precedent to narrow the immunity... Read More

ELECTION AND POLITICAL LAW | NEWS Reed Smith Team Puts Early Squeeze on Mueller Prosecutors in Russia Case By C. Ryan Barber Prosecuting a foreign individual or company in U.S. federal court can pose challenges for the government in any case.... Read More Sally Yates Launches Investigations Practice as King & Spalding Partner The former DOJ official and hero to Trump critics said she’s ready to return to practicing law. “I know other people... Read More

ELECTION AND POLITICAL LAW | NEWS Reed Smith Team Puts Early Squeeze on Mueller Prosecutors in Russia Case By C. Ryan Barber Prosecuting a foreign individual or company in U.S. federal court can pose challenges for the government in any case.... Read More

A Decade Later, Texas Finally Sees Its First Asian-American U.S. District Judge | Texas Lawyer Texas Lawyer Karen Gren Scholer's Obama-era nomination was left pending without a Senate floor vote as the Trump administration took... Read More

Ninth Circuit Holds Maricopa County Liable for Former Sheriff's 'Racially Discriminatory Policing' The county had argued that it couldn't be held liable for the policies of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio whose office routinely... Read More

NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Resigns After Sexual Assault Allegations Surface "While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively... Read More

COURT ADMINISTRATION | NEWS Kagan Says She'll 'Take Into Account' Whether Judges Follow New Clerk Hiring Plan By Marcia Coyle U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recently threw her support behind the new law clerk hiring plan by saying she... Read More

Wells Fargo Settles Securities Class Actions Over Fake Accounts for $480M It's the largest payment the bank has agreed to make so far since the scandal broke in 2016. But Wells Fargo is not... Read More Wilmer Partner Dan Berkovitz, Up for CFTC Seat, Reveals Big Law Income, Client List Dan Berkovitz, a Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner in Washington and nominee for a Democratic seat on the... Read More

Citing 'Potential Conflicts,' Greenberg Traurig Says Giuliani on Unpaid Leave Rudy Giuliani's leave of absence lets Greenberg Traurig avoid representing the president without saying goodbye to its... Read More

White House Lawyer Heads to Dechert; DC Partners on the Move In this week's Washington Wrap: More Trump legal team churn, and notable law firm hires involving Venable, DLA Piper,... Read More

PRO BONO | NEWS The 2018 Pro Bono Hot List: Key Players By National Law Journal The lawyers on this year's Pro Bono Hot List have taken on some of the biggest issues of our time. Read what they had... Read More

Liberal Lobbying Group Pushes Sharper Focus on Judicial Nominations “There isn’t a political fire on the left when it comes to judicial nominations," says Elliot Williams of the progressive... Read More CIVIL PROCEDURE Meeting the Challenge of the Legal Aid Crisis By John G. Levi, Kenneth C. Frazier and Harriet Miers The opioid crisis and the recent spate of natural disasters present new challenges to already overburdened civil legal... Read More Deadline Extended for DC Legal Departments of the Year The Legal Department of the Year contest recognizes the Washington D.C. region’s top in-house departments in up to six... Read Mo 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 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 Lake Jackson Attorney Pleads to Bank Fraud Over Beach House Sales Kirk Lawrence Brannan, 64, admitted to conspiring with three co-defendants from 2005 to 2009 to execute a scheme 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 US Supreme Court Finally Takes a Cy Pres Case, and This One Involves Google Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., writing in a 2013 case, said cy pres relief raised "fundamental concerns." The Google... Read More Calif. Supremes Embrace Worker-Friendly Classification Test. Why This Matters to Gig Companies “The result will be sweeping reclassification of workers throughout the state, including in the gig economy where much... Read More GDPR Is Here! Are You Ready? About two years and several million dollars in, Meera Patel, assistant general counsel for regulatory affairs at Cardinal... Read More Waiting for Decisions | Who's Behind 'SCOTUS-Toons'? | A 1956 Thurgood Marshall Interview | Supreme Court Brief | National Law Journal The Supreme Court's dragging a bit in releasing opinions at least by comparisons to other terms. And: Catch up with... Read More Permit Local Taxing of Out-of-State Retailers | New Jersey Law Journal We think 'Quill Corp v. North Dakota' was wrong and hope the Supreme Court will so hold. Read More Judge Won't Dismiss Case Objecting to NJ Township's Mosque Settlement | New Jersey Law Journal A federal judge has denied a motion by Bernards Township New Jersey to dismiss a suit objecting to its 2017 settlement... Read More