Headlines • Former Bush Lawyer to Spend One Day in Jail • In Bulger Trial, Debating the Meaning of 'Informant' • Supreme Court Compromises in Affirmative Action Case • Justices Agree to Decide Recess-Appointment Dispute • Supreme Court Makes it Harder to Prove Job Bias Claims • Ex-Director Accuses Berkeley Social Justice Center of Bias • Associa GC Feels 'Right at Home' • D.C.'s Litigation Departments of the Year • MOVERS • INADMISSIBLE: Justice Ginsburg on Women and the Courts Scott Bloch, the former head of the Office of Special Counsel under the George W. Bush administration, was sentenced today to serve 24 months of probation and spend a day in jail. Bloch pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of... Read More » Lawyers for James "Whitey" Bulger on Monday won a spat with prosecutors over whether the accused mobster could be called an informant, after asking the court to allow them to counter the hammering their client is talking in the press. Read More » The Supreme Court on Monday stepped back from the brink of calling for an end to affirmative action programs, returning to a lower court the dispute over a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas. Read More » The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether President Barack Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board violated the Constitution. Read More » In back-to-back, divided rulings on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court raised the bar for employees seeking to prove discrimination in their workplaces. Read More » The former director of a social justice center at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law has sued her ex-boss, claiming that she was unjustly fired amid an undercurrent of racial tension at the center and the law school. Read More » Profile of Paul Reyes, general counsel for Associa Inc. Read More » We went looking for excellence among the litigation bar in Washington — and found plenty. Here's our take on the best all-around litigation shop in D.C. and an array of top-flight firms in six subspecialities. Read More » Dominique Shelton joins Alston & Bird's litigation team as partner. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column. Read More » Justice Ruth Bader O'Connor? A lawyer would be ill-advised to refer to a U.S. Supreme Court justice, or any judge for that matter, by the wrong name. But each time Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined courts in which only one other woman was serving at the time — the Supreme Court in 1993 and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1980 — that's exactly what happened. Plus: disharmony in unanimity, Google's First Amendment fight, and more in this week's column. Read More » | 
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