National Law Journal

Supreme Court Rejects 'Making a Murderer' Case The high court’s action has the effect of leaving in place Brendan Dassey’s sentence of life in prison with eligibility... Read More

JUDICIAL ETHICS | NEWS #Denied: US Supreme Court Won't Touch Dispute Over Tweeting Federal Judge By Marcia Coyle U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the U.S. Supreme Court justices that questions surrounding judges' use of... Read More CRIMINAL APPEALS | NEWS Reed Smith Bolsters Readiness in Russia Case, Adding Appellate Duo By C. Ryan Barber Reed Smith appellate partners James Martin and Colin Wrabley are joining the firm's court work in a Russia-related case... Read More CIVIL RIGHTS | NEWS Company Defends Firing Employee Who Flipped Off Trump's Motorcade By Erin Mulvaney "Akima is not a governmental entity—it is a private company," the company's lawyers at Virginia-based IslerDare... Read More CRIMINAL LAW | NEWS Manhattan Federal Prosecutors Cancel Sit-Down With Stormy Daniels By Colby Hamilton The adult film actress' attorney Michael Avennati said the office's decision to forego a planned interview ahead of... Read More

CRIMINAL APPEALS | NEWS US Supreme Court Rejects 'Making a Murderer' Case By Tony Mauro The high court's action has the effect of leaving in place Brendan Dassey's sentence of life in prison with eligibility... Read More

GENDER DIVERSITY | NEWS Ruth Bader Ginsbird? Osprey Chicks at Oregon Law Get SCOTUS-Inspired Names By Karen Sloan The school let the public choose the names of two osprey chicks hatched on campus, and voters kept with a legal theme. Read More

Justices Give Florist New Chance to Prove She Didn't Discriminate Against Gay Couple A state trial court ruled against Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers. The justices, without comment, directed... Read More

Company Defends Firing Employee Who Flipped Off Trump's Motorcade "Akima is not a governmental entity—it is a private company," the company's lawyers at Virginia-based IslerDare wrote... Read More

LAW DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT | NEWS Will Trump's Space Force Open a New Frontier for Lobbyists? By Ryan Lovelace In this week's Washington Wrap: D.C. firms look to the heavens, and partner moves from around the capital. Read More CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS Full U.S. Appeals Court Will Look at Scope of Federal Age-Discrimination Law By Erin Mulvaney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, will take up Dale Kleber's case against CareFusion... Read More CONSTITUTIONAL LAW | NEWS Kagan Gives UVA Prof Shoutout for Provoking 'Good and Hard Thinking' By Marcia Coyle “As I hope readers of today's decision will agree when they read all the opinions in this case, including a concurrence... Read More

LEGAL TECHNOLOGY | NEWS California Ballot Initiative May Bring GDPR Stateside By Gabrielle Orum Hernández A new proposed ballot initiative wants to bring a strict data privacy law to California, but some of California's largest... Read More

Trump Organization Seeks Extension to Review New Cohen Material for Privilege According to private attorney Alan Futerfas, one of the document productions from Michael Cohen's team at McDermott... Read More Bad News, Good News for Lawyer Fee Applications | New Jersey Law Journal 'Giarusso' while not authorizing a charging lien in a post-judgment matrimonial action did pronounce that a separate... Read More Southern Poverty Law Center Pays $3.4M To Resolve Defamation Case | The American Lawyer Notching a win for Kirkland & Ellis expatriates now at litigation boutique Clare Locke a well-known civil rights group... Read More Lawyers Must Read, and the Supreme Court Should Write, More Disciplinary Opinions | New Jersey Law Journal The decisions in these cases are significant in terms of interpretation of the RPCs and the practice of law. Lawyers... Read More

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Supreme Court's Internet Sales Tax Ruling Is Billion-Dollar Boon for States The U.S. Supreme Court says states are allowed to collect sales taxes from online retailers that don’t have a have a... Read More

US Supreme Court Says SEC In-House Judges Are More Than 'Mere Employees' But the court does not address DOJ's request about the power of the president to fire officers of the United States.... Read More

Let's Stay Together: Clients Angry About Associate Raises But Will Probably Keep Firms Anyway In-house leaders have expressed their ire about associate raises handed out by Milbank and other firms, but experts... Read More

Here's How Litigators are Pushing Back Against Trump's Border Policy As everyone from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the ACLU recoils at the separation of migrant children from their parents,... Read More

Reed Smith, Citing 'Interests of Clients,' Won't Increase Associate Salaries While the firm is keeping its options open, the head of legal personnel said it has decided to hold salaries steady... Read More

'The Person I Knew Had a Conscience': Kirstjen Nielsen's Law School Classmates Call Her Out "It's hard for all of us to reconcile who she has become," says a UVA graduate who attended law school with the U.S.... Read More