National Law Journal

Sorry, Securities Lawyers, There Won't Be a SCOTUS Ruling on These Fraud Claims The justices, who had granted review in March 2017, dismissed Leidos Inc. v. Indiana Public Retirement System on Monday... Read More

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION | NEWS In a First, Yale and Stanford Law Journals Team Up for #MeToo Project By Karen Sloan The two schools fast-tracked a joint symposium in a bid to help activists, lawmakers and scholars better understand... Read More

State AGs to Sessions: Stop Separating Families at the Border Two letters, one signed by state attorneys general and one from former U.S. attorneys, urged the Trump administration... Read More

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS 14 Years Later, Progress Is Elusive for Supreme Court on Partisan Redistricting By Marcia Coyle Justice Elena Kagan offered a path forward on resolving disputes over partisan redistricting, but Chief Justice John... Read More

NNOVATION | NEWS Government Ethics Office Says Executive Nominees Must Disclose Crypto Holdings By Ross Todd In a legal advisory letter released Monday, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics clarified that virtual currency is... Read More

Proskauer Adds SEC Vet to Corporate Practice in DC By Ryan Lovelace New partner Karen Garnett was most recently associate director of the SEC's corporation finance division. Read More

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY | NEWS Greenberg IP Team Decamps for Goodwin Procter By Scott Graham The moves boost Goodwin's ITC practice, and come a few weeks after Greenberg hired a new leader to head its ITC group. Read More

CIVIL PROCEDURE | NEWS Delaware Class Action Folded into Facebook, Cambridge Analytica MDL By Tom McParland A federal judicial panel on Monday added a Delaware class action against Facebook Inc. and Cambridge Analytica to multidistrict... Read More

CIVIL RIGHTS | NEWS Lines Are Drawn in New Appeals Court Case Confronting LGBT Workplace Rights By Erin Mulvaney Major U.S. companies including Microsoft Corp., Airbnb Inc., eBay Inc., and Viacom Inc. are backing the worker. Meanwhile,... Read More

ELECTION AND POLITICAL LAW | NEWS Justices Skirt Conclusive Ruling on Partisan Gerrymandering By Marcia Coyle Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said about the Wisconsin redistricting case: "It is a case about group political interests,... Read More

Critics Blast Kraninger as Unqualified for CFPB Job By David Baumann Credit union and banking trade groups are more supportive on the possiblity of Trump's choice. Read More

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS US Justice Dept. Returns to SCOTUS to Challenge Another National Injunction By Marcia Coyle The U.S. Department of Justice wants the Supreme Court to restrict the injunction in a sanctuary cities case to Chicago.... Read More

NNOVATION | NEWS Justices Add Key Cases on Apple's Antitrust Woes, Asset Forfeiture and Securities Fraud By Tony Mauro U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco also urged the justices to grant review in the Apple antitrust case, which will... Read More

LAW FIRM COMPETITION | NEWS DC Law Firms Watch and Wait as Associate Raises Spread By Ryan Lovelace In this week's Washington Wrap: It's about the money. Read More

Justices Skirt Conclusive Ruling on Partisan Gerrymandering Justice Kennedy said about the Wisconsin redistricting case: "It is a case about group political interests, not individual... Read More

U.S. Justice Dept. Returns to SCOTUS to Challenge Another National Injunction The U.S. Justice Department wants the Supreme Court to restrict the injunction in a sanctuary cities case to Chicago.... Read More

CAREER DEVELOPMENT | NEWS Chief Justice Roberts Speaks Favorably About Judiciary's New Law Clerk Plan By Marcia Coyle Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. joins Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor in... Read More

CIVIL RIGHTS | PROFILE At Last: Convict-Turned-Skadden Fellow Set to Join Washington Bar By Scott Flaherty A former nurse who went to law school after a 20-month prison term on drug offenses, Tarra Simmons has finally reached... Read More

SPONSORED BY ADR CHAMPIONS 2018’s List of ADR Champions National Law Journal has released the third annual issue of ADR Champions. In this digital edition, you’ll read 48 profiles of those who continue to make their mark in various aspects of alternative dispute resolution. Congratulations to this year’s class of 2018 ADR Champions! READ MORE

CRIMINAL LAW | NEWS Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Indicted in Alleged Wire Fraud Scheme By Ross Todd The indictment alleges a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors, doctors and patients. Read More

LAW FIRM COMPETITION | NEWS DC Law Firms Watch and Wait as Associate Raises Spread By Ryan Lovelace In this week's Washington Wrap: It's about the money. Read More

CRIMINAL APPEALS | NEWS Bill Cosby Turns to Pa. Lawyer Who Defended Sex Crimes, Child Porn Cases By Lizzy McLellan Among his past cases, West Chester attorney Joseph P. Green represented a former Debevoise associate who was convicted... Read More ELECTION AND POLITICAL LAW | NEWS Mueller's Team, in Court, Defends Case Against Russian Company By C. Ryan Barber The government's defense of the charges came at a hearing as the sides quarrel about the scope of discovery and the... Read More Roadblocks to Civil Reservations Rightly Removed | New Jersey Law Journal When should a defendant faced with criminal charges be permitted to plead guilty while at the same time reserving the... Read More Lawyer's Conflict of Interest in Campus Sex Assault Case Leads to One-Year Suspension | The Legal Intelligencer The Legal Intelligencer The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Disciplinary Board has suspended a Philadelphia attorney for one year for among other... Read More Waterfront Commission Lives On | New Jersey Law Journal The Legal Intelligencer We applaud Judge Wigenton’s decision and look forward to the continuation of the commission and the regulatory work... Read More