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TODAY'S NEWS Summer associate hiring declines amid anemic legal market The median and average numbers of summer associate offers that law firms made to 2Ls last fall fell slightly, according to data released by NALP. Courthouse shooting highlights growing risk—security expert Steven Swensen, a former U.S. marshal and founder of the Center for Judicial and Executive Security in Saint Paul, Minn., talks to NLJ about the recent shooting in Delaware—and about why violent incidents are increasing despite a renewed focus on safety. In fight against health care fraud, the numbers keep growing Federal prosecutors are touting record-level numbers in the fight against health care fraud, saying government teams recovered $4.2 billion in fiscal year 2012. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT Are you and your firm facing unprecedented change? Register today to view The Lawyer Personality: Four Strategies to Gain a Competitive Advantage. 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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 Daniel Meador, 'father of the Federal Circuit,' dies at 86 Daniel Meador, who was the driving force in creating the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, died on February 9, at 86. Sixth Circuit upholds identity theft conviction without actual theft A federal appeals court has affirmed a sentence for aggravated identity theft even though the defendant bought the identity information he used for the fraud from a willing seller. Midsize law firm carves winter sports practice Rick Thaler, head of Ray Quinney & Nebeker's winter sports group, talks to NLJ about how his practice has changed in recent years and the eternal debate about which method to descend a snowy slope is superior. Reflections on gun control by a Second Amendment advocate Reasonable persons should be able to fashion reasonable restrictions—a framework for gun control in the aftermath of Newtown—without violating core Second Amendment rights. THIS WEEK'S ISSUE THE PRACTICE In-house counsel pay and statistical research Multiple regression will come to play a prominent role in the analysis of compensation and other metrics. OPINION Law clerk hiring plan is dead, and good riddance Like a cartel with too many players, the plan unraveled because the temptation to hire early was just too strong. 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