NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Dodd-Frank Rules Face Cost-Benefit Hurdle in Court • CIA General Counsel to be Nominated Top Pentagon Lawyer • DOJ Civil Division Nominee Faces No Heat • New Leadership for Federal Courts' Administrative Office • Kilpatrick Partner Nominated for U.N. Post • DLA Piper Beats Out Baker & McKenzie at Top of Chart For federal agencies charged with implementing the Dodd-Frank Act, writing rules is only half the battle. They also have to come up a cost-benefit analysis that will pass muster with the courts - or avoid rulemaking entirely. "Cost-benefit analysis is... Read More » The Obama administration has turned to the CIA for the U.S. Defense Department's next top lawyer. President Barack Obama intends to nominate CIA general counsel Stephen Preston to lead the legal department at the Pentagon, the White House said Monday.... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Litigation Skills Institute -- July 13-28 This rigorous litigation skills training program at American University Washington College of Law includes exercise driven courses on fact witness depositions, expert witness depositions, civil trial advocacy, as well as a cutting-edge digital evidence presentation workshop. With courses offered in the evenings and on weekends the Institute is ideal for attorneys seeking to sharpen their pretrial and courtroom skills. LEARN MORE. | Stuart Delery had an easy time during a confirmation hearing Tuesday to become the permanent head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division—in large part because of the political heat surrounding the man sitting next to him in a... Read More » U.S. District Judge John Bates will take over next month as director of the federal judiciary's administrative office, the U.S. Supreme Court announced today. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., appointed Bates to replace U.S. District Senior Judge Thomas Hogan Jr.,... Read More » President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate a Washington-based Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton partner to be the next ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council. Keith Harper, who focuses his practice on litigation and Native American affairs, was... Read More » DLA Piper topped the NLJ 350 this year, marking only the third time that it has unseated rival Baker & McKenzie from the No. 1 spot in the survey's 36-year history.
• Read the results of this year's NLJ 350 survey. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Defendant suffered ex post facto violation when he was sentenced under harsher guidelines promulgated after crimes were committed (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » Ninth Circuit did not lack jurisdiction to hear raisin producers' claim that Department of Agriculture order under authority of Raisin Marketing Order of 1949 violated their rights under Takings Clause of Fifth Amendment (Thomas, J.) Read More » Where parties had agreed to allow arbitrator to determine whether contract authorized classwide arbitration, arbitrator's decision on that issue was not subject to judicial review (Kagan, J.) Read More » Rape defendant suffered no constitutional violation when state trial court excluded evidence of victim's prior, uncorroborated accusations (per curiam) Read More » Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 preempted state law providing that spouses cease to be beneficiaries of each other's life insurance policies after they are divorced (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » State statute authorizing DNA collection from probable cause felony arrestees is not unconstitutional (Kennedy, J.) Read More » | 
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