NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » Lawyers Monitoring Cybersecurity Bill » Consumer Agency Chief Defends Data-Gathering » Abbott Drops Two Law Firms from Lobbying Roster » Daily D.C. Lateral Roundup: Kilpatrick Townsend » A First for SEC: A Nonprosecution Deal in Bribery Case » DOJ Loses Fight Over Foreign Official's $38.5M Jet Congress is once again pushing forward on a controversial bill to bolster the nation's cybersecurity, which could end up changing how law firms and their clients respond to online threats. The House passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act,... Read More » Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head Richard Cordray defended his agency's plan to collect financial data on 10 million consumers as necessary and appropriate in testimony today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. The data, which... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Legal Interview Series at STC Bard Association Chair Abbe Lowell (Chadbourne & Parke LLP) kicks off the Shakespeare Theatre Company's new series, "Expert Witnesses" with former Senator and actor Fred Thompson. This will be the first of many discussions with prominent individuals (actors, authors) who have bridged the worlds of law and the arts. To purchase tickets, contact the STC Box Office at 202.547.1122 option 1 or Click here | After splitting into two companies in January, Abbott Laboratories has pulled the plug on lobbying work that two law firms did for it in Washington, lobbyists disclosed Monday. Foley Hoag and Williams & Jensen stopped advocating for Abbott on December... Read More » Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has added a former Federal Trade Commission attorney to its antitrust practice in Washington. Melanie Sabo, who spent six years as assistant director of the FTC's anticompetitive practices division, joins Kilpatrick as a partner. At the... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Join us at BIO—Where Science Meets Business Connect with 16,500 leaders from 65 countries. Find your next business partner. Discover cutting-edge technologies. Join the global biotech community at the 2013 BIO International Convention, April 22 – 25 in Chicago. Click here | Apparel company Ralph Lauren Corp. has agreed to give up $700,000 in profits to resolve bribery allegations, marking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's first nonprosecution agreement involving Foreign Corrupt Practices Act misconduct. Read More » In late 2011, top U.S. Department of Justice officials trumpeted the government's effort to seize millions of dollars in assets belonging to a top public official in Equatorial Guinea. Now a federal trial judge in Washington has dealt prosecutors a setback. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Natural dissipation of alcohol in suspected drunk driver's bloodstream does not by itself necessarily constitute exigency sufficient to justify warrantless blood test (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » Presumption against extraterritorial application of U.S. law applies to claims under the Alien Tort Statute, and nothing in that legislation rebuts that presumption (Roberts, C.J.) Read More » Terms of employer's ERISA plan take precedence over unjust enrichment principles with regard to employer's action under ERISA to recover funds advanced to injured employee (Kagan, J.) Read More » Mootness of plaintiff's individual claim precluded her prosecution of Fair Labor Standards Act collective action (Thomas, J.) Read More » Denial of post-trial request for appointed counsel no Sixth Amendment violation where defendant had earlier waived counsel three times (per curiam) Read More » Plaintiff seeking to initiate class action must present evidence showing that case may be suitable for award of damages on class-wide basis before class action status can be granted (Scalia, J.) Read More » | 
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