In Damage-Control Effort, Senator Assembles Veteran D.C. Legal Team

AFTERNOON UPDATE In Damage-Control Effort, Senator Assembles Veteran D.C. Legal Team Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is seeking help in Washington as he faces allegations about personal improprieties, assembling a damage-control team that includes at least two lawyers and a consultant who served as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.'s top spokesman. Judge Denies New Trial in Armenian Genocide Museum Dispute More than a decade after efforts began to build a museum memorializing the mass slaughter of Armenians during World War I, litigation over the failure of those efforts has consumed everyone involved. Yesterday, a Washington federal judge denied a motion for a new trial in the dispute and ordered the plaintiffs to pay the defendants $1.4 million in fees and costs. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT Register Today: 10k Run & Walk Join the legal community in supporting the American Heart Association through Lawyers Have Heart 10k Run and 3k Fun Walk! Saturday, June 8, 2013 at the Washington Harbour at Georgetown. Set up a team from your office and compete for bragging rights! - Presented in partnership by McDermott Will & Emery Click here Supreme Court Ruling Jeopardizes Encyclopedia Group's Legal Malpractice Lawsuit Several months after losing a motion for summary judgment, Encyclopaedia Britannica is facing another possible setback in its legal malpractice lawsuit against Dickstein Shapiro. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT Need to transfer files from paper to mobile devices? Register today to learn more about Bridging the Mobile/Paper Gap to Increase Productivity . This informational webinar will review the trends, risks and challenges faced by law firms and corporate legal departments at the interface between mobile devices and paper. Then it will investigate the solutions designed by Canon U.S.A. to help mitigate those risks and challenges. Click here to register Law Firm Leaders Q&A: Duane Morris' Douglas Woloshin Douglas Woloshin has seen Washington change in the nearly 35 years he's been practicing law. His longevity in the D.C. legal market made him a logical fit as the managing partner of Duane Morris' Washington office, a post he has held since 2004. He is also a member of the firm's partner board and head of the project finance practice group. SUPREME COURT Henderson v. United States Error is "plain" within meaning of F.R.Crim.P. 52(b) if it is plain at time of appellate review, whether or not legal question was settled at time of trial (Breyer, J.) Evans v. Michigan Under well-established precedent, state trial court's directed acquittal precluded retrial, even though court's ruling was based on legally mistaken reasoning (Sotomayor, J.) Gunn v. Minton Federal statute providing for exclusive jurisdiction of cases arising under patent law did not deprive state court of jurisdiction over legal malpractice claim in patent case (Roberts, C.J.) Johnson v. Williams Federal habeas petitioner's claim must be presumed adjudicated on merits, subject to rebuttal, where state court has rejected some of petitioner's claims but has not directly addressed any federal claims (Alito, J.) Chaidez v. United States Recent Supreme Court decision holding that defense attorneys must advise non-citizen clients of deportation risks of guilty pleas does not apply to cases already final on direct review (Kagan, J.)		Get the BLT on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Available now in the App Store. If you have Twitter account, you can now follow NLJ Editor in Chief David L. Brown at twitter.com/davidlbrownjr. Follow him for links to key stories and updates from the NLJ newsroom. You can also track news on Twitter from the NLJ's Washington bureau at twitter.com/legal_times.
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