Headlines • ABA Pressed to Boost Law Students' Practical Training • Legal Aid Providers Appeal to Congress' Heartstrings • Ex-Lawyer Accused of Tax Fraud Involving Beach Homes • Court Vacates SEC Payment Disclosure Rule • Chicago's Rising Stars • Justice Kennedy's World • Closing Guantánamo • SEC Has Begun Paying Whistleblower Bounties • Former Orrick Asia Head Joins Jones Day • Korea's Foreign Legion A group of clinical law professors has asked the ABA's Counsel of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to amend its law school accreditation standards to require that students complete 15 credit hours of real-world lawyering coursework. Read More » The nation's providers of civil legal services put something new between the charts and numbers of next year's budget request — the faces of children, seniors and veterans representing people to whom they provided life-changing help last year. Read More » Former Massachusetts lawyer John McBride could face more than three decades in prison on bank and tax fraud charges stemming from alleged schemes to keep two homes in elite coastal towns despite more than $650,000 in federal tax liens. Read More » Eugene Scalia of Gibson Dunn once again defeats government ruling making. On Tuesday a Washington, D.C., federal judge vacated a controversial rule by the SEC that would require oil and gas extraction companies to disclose government payments. Read More » Don't fear for the future of the legal profession in Chicago; judging by our survey of the city's rising stars, it's in very good hands. We asked our readers to nominate up-and-comers and snooped around on our own to compile this list of achievers in Chicago's law firms, corporate law departments and the legal academy. Read More » The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Windsor reflected themes that have been present in Justice Kennedy's jurisprudence for years: a concern about federalism and a desire to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination. Read More » The Obama administration needs to go from words to action. Read More » Its rulings so far suggest the pace and scope of awards may be more limited than the business community feared. Read More » Michelle Taylor will be a partner in the firm's Hong Kong office. Read More » As foreign competitors crowd into Seoul, Korean firms have a secret weapon: their own ranks of foreign-qualified lawyers, mainly from the United States. Read More » | 
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