Headlines • Senators Grill Apple Executives About Tax Strategy • Appeal Filed by Lawyers Sanctioned Over Porn Lawsuits • Defense Building Mitigation Case in Boston Bombing • Interim Law Dean Gets the Permanent Job in South Dakota • A Place for Lawyers to Learn Executive Skills • The Calculus of University Presidents • INADMISSIBLE: Cool Music Soothes Supreme Court • VOIR DIRE: Patience Expired • Bribery Prosecutions Revive Following 2012 Lag • 'Company Doe' Asks Fourth Circuit to Keep Records Sealed A day after a congressional panel claimed that Apple Inc. uses offshore entities to avoid U.S. taxes, senators on Tuesday grilled the company's chief executive officer and two colleagues about their tax strategy. Read More » Lawyers under sanction for fraudulently filing dozens of copyright infringement lawsuits against people accused of downloading pornographic films have filed an appeal, as the attorneys who represented them before the sanctioning judge have disappeared from the case. Read More » Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have persuaded a federal judge to grant them access to prison documents and photos of their client, apparently to help them build a case mitigating against the death penalty. Read More » The University of South Dakota School of Law has named Thomas Geu as its new dean. He has taught there since 1989 and has served as interim dean since former dean Barry Vickrey stepped down in 2011 after 18 years at the helm. Read More » Harvard, Georgetown follow business school model. Read More » Many must decide between two difficult paths: tackle law school restructuring or close their law schools. Read More » The occasion of the Supreme Court's spring musicale saw Broadway great Barbara Cook belting out jazz and oldtime favorites. Plus: Skadden and News Corp., Arent Fox reps the 49ers, Boasberg clears the way for school closures, a circuit judge runs, and shoe business in this week's column. Read More » For years a group of activists calling themselves "Robin Hood and his Merry Men" have roamed the streets of Keene, N.H., with rolls of coins to feed expired meters before parking enforcement officers can write tickets. Some of those officers are striking back. Also: a royal flush, a dust-up, and a Wolf suit in this week's column. Read More » Prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act declined during 2012, even as 15 new countries were cracking down on such crimes involving their own government officials, according to a survey by TRACE International Inc. Read More » A company using a pseudonym in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is fighting to keep documents under seal in a dispute rooted in whether the public should be allowed to see a consumer product safety report. Read More » | 
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