Sequestration Drives Scheduling Changes at D.C. Federal Court

AFTERNOON UPDATE Sequestration Drives Scheduling Changes at D.C. Federal Court To accommodate expected furloughs in federal law enforcement and defender services agencies, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will stop scheduling most criminal matters on alternating Fridays from April 26 through September 30, court officials said. Law Firm Leaders Q&A: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius' Grace Speights From Grace Speights' office in downtown Washington, you can count the airplanes approaching the runway at Reagan National Airport. From the vantage, the Washington Monument is center in the foreground. Speights has little time to count planes. In addition to her role as managing partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius' Washington office, Speights is deputy chair of the firm's labor and employment practice and chair of the systemic employment litigation practice. She also sits on the advisory board and diversity committee. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT NEW: 5K Run Added! Join the legal community in supporting the American Heart Association through Lawyers Have Heart 10K Run, 5K 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! Sponsorship opportunities still available! www.LawyersHaveHeartDC.org - Presented in partnership by McDermott Will & Emery Lloyd's of London Taps Patton Boggs Lobby Team Lloyd's of London has enlisted Patton Boggs to lobby for it in Washington, expanding the insurance market's stable of U.S. lobbying firms to three. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT 2nd Annual Patent Administrative Law Symposium Experts convene at American University Washington College of Law to analyze patent subject-matter eligibility today. The April 12th event will address the current conflicted state of 35 U.S.C. § 101 and the patentable eligible exceptions for high electronics, software, biotechnology, and business method patents. 9am-5pm, CLE available by request. Click here to register. Daily D.C. Lateral Roundup: Sidley Austin; Nelson Mullins; Venable Sidley Austin has added two partners to its antitrust/competition practice.		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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