NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » Former Top DOJ Lawyer Joins Steptoe as Partner » Brown Rudnick Hires Senior White-Collar Defense Lawyer » Voting Begins in D.C. Bar Elections » Round-up: Law Firm Leadership Changes in Washington » Inside the Roberts Court » For Second Time, Jail for D.C. Judge A U.S. Justice Department official who resigned after the release of an internal report on the controversial gun-walking program Operation Fast and Furious has joined Steptoe & Johnson LLP as a partner. Jason Weinstein, who left the Criminal Division in... Read More » The head of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck's white-collar criminal defense and investigations group has jumped to Brown Rudnick in Washington, the lawyer's new firm announced Monday. Stephen Best, who started at Brownstein in 2010, joined Brown Rudnick as a partner... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: WORK EVEN SMARTER: Labor & Employment Law Resource Center Access key arbitration decisions, renowned news coverage, full-text state labor and employment statutes and expertly authored treatises -- all on one platform -- to seamlessly conduct complex legal research. Recently enhanced to include thirty-nine labor and employment law treatises -- with links to primary source material and headnoted cases -- including Elkouri & Elkouri: How Arbitration Works. Request your FREE trial today and receive a complimentary copy of the 2013 Labor Outlook, crafted by Bloomberg BNA's expert editorial team. FREE TRIAL | Voting is underway in this year's D.C. Bar elections for general and sections positions. The two lawyers vying for president-elect – the precursor post to serving as president – carried a bevy of endorsements into the election, which began April... Read More » In recent days, a number of law firms announced leadership changes in Washington. Last week, Carter Phillips was named the sole chairman of Sidley Austin's executive committee. Phillips shared the title with Thomas Cole for the past year as part... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Expand Your Knowledge & Network Experience intensive training that gives you a competitive edge and qualifies for CLE credit. Attend American University Washington College of Law's summer law programs in D.C. Learn the latest policies and network with experts in diverse fields of law including intellectual property, litigation, anti-corruption, hotel law, public policy, health law, arbitration, and more. Click here | The NLJ's Marcia Coyle examines four landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases on health care, money in elections, guns and race in this exclusive excerpt from The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution. Read More » District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Gregory Jackson's courtroom buzzed when a man in an orange prison jumpsuit revealed he was a former judicial officer and veteran attorney. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Virginia statute restricting public records access to Virginia citizens only does not violate either Privileges and Immunities Clause or dormant Commerce Clause (Alito, J.) Read More » Where noncitizen's conviction for marijuana distribution offense did not establish offense involved remuneration or more than small amount of marijuana, offense was not aggravated felony under immigration law (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » 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 » | 
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