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TODAY'S NEWS Washington Legal Departments of the Year The National Law Journal recognizes the D.C. metro area's top in-house departments, and their general counsel, in six categories: overall excellence; outside counsel management; technology; diversity and quality of life; pro bono and community service; and corporate compliance. A cybersecurity blanket The federal government's new push to bolster cybersecurity will create an array of legal questions and potential pitfalls for companies in the coming months. Supreme Court returns to blazing docket The U.S. Supreme Court returns from a mid-winter break to an argument docket jam-packed with same-sex marriage, voting rights, DNA testing, gene patenting, class actions, Indian adoptions and other issues. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT Are you and your firm facing unprecedented change? Register today to view The Lawyer Personality: Four Strategies to Gain a Competitive Advantage. In this Webinar, Dr. Larry Richard, a leading expert on the lawyer personality, explains the most potent strategies that law firm leaders can employ now. Law firms that apply these strategies can gain a competitive advantage and learn how to apply change to their own practice. Click here to watch the Webinar On-Demand today! INADMISSIBLE Sotomayor changes directions on cameras; Traxler to lead Judicial Conference; Begich on D.C. subcommittee; DLA Piper for Al Jazeera; remembering Steuart Pittman; honoring Hatch; and renominating Block and Griffin for NLRB in this week's column. VOIR DIRE A new flag; Gloucester bat; virtual claims grounds for divorce in actual life; and Taye's tackle in this week's column. 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 IN BRIEF A weekly roundup of Web-only stories from NLJ.com and other ALM publications. MOVERS Nicholas Hoffman joins Haynes and Boone's real estate practice as of counsel to the New York office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column. THIS WEEK'S ISSUE THE PRACTICE D.C. Circuit disrupts broad NLRB sway over employers Several decisions expansively regulating non union workplaces are now called into question but still binding. OPINION The quandary of courthouse security Two shootings last week spotlight critical importance of stopping a potential assailant at the entrance. MOST POPULAR STORIES A life cut short Reflections on gun control by a Second Amendment advocate Summer associate hiring declines amid anemic legal market Obama announces cybersecurity executive order In role reversal, Elizabeth Warren grills financial regulators Sotomayor now opposes cameras at the court Litigation Boutiques Hot List Law school sues over California's bar-passage mandate Ronald Dworkin, philosopher who linked morality and the law, dies at 81 Judge: Wells Fargo's $5B deal with feds does not bar new action		IN FOCUS Litigation Boutiques Hot List They may be small, but they command attention. The 10 law firms on our Litigation Boutiques Hot List, each fielding no more than 50 lawyers, demonstrate that when it comes to high-stakes cases it's all about skill, not size. Go to In Focus   THE BLT | The Blog of the Legal Times Judge Dismisses Lawyer's Constitutional Challenge to 'Post and Forfeit' DOJ Targets U.S. Parole Commission Official in Hiring Practices Investigation Daily D.C. Lateral Roundup: Ober Kaler THE CAREERIST | a lawjobs.com blog Chastity, Cravath, and Alec Baldwin Are Lawyers Prone to Have Bad Sex Lives? Laid-Off Associate Is Now Celebrity Chef LAW.COM NEWSWIRE A Lifetime Spent Swimming Nourishes Ga. Lawyer Australia Told of Israeli Detention Before Death Columbia Law Blog Monitors Corporations, Capital Markets U.S. Contractor Gets Prison for Smuggling Cash From Afghanistan Cooley Takes Corporate Partner From Latham 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. Labor and Employment Issues in Obama's Second Term Inventors and Patent Attorneys: Beware the Ides of March Corporate Spin-Off Best Practices for In-House Counsel Toyota Settles With AGs for $29 Million Over Safety Issues Fashion Week FCPA: Are Expediting Payments the New Black?

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