Headlines • Boeing Co. Targeted in Jet Crash • Students, Young Associates Survey Brooklyn's Family Court • Congress, Justice Department Eye Changes to Voting Rights Act • District Does Disclosure Lite • Billable Hour vs. Retainer • The NLRB Matters Even in Nonunion Companies • U.S. Climbs Off the Transparency Train • Detroit Bankruptcy Sets Record for Insolvency • Foreign Firms Stumble Going Local in Japan • Judge Rules Gadens Gave Negligent Tax Advice Plaintiffs lawyers with expertise in airplane crash litigation predict that most of the lawsuits over the Asiana Airlines crash will name both the airline and The Boeing Co., which manufactured the aircraft. But, under an international treaty, most of the passengers aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214 could be barred from suing the South Korean airline in U.S. courts. Read More » A summerlong pro bono project dubbed the Brooklyn Family Court Child Support Study aims to improve the quality of legal assistance available to people who land in this New York county court but lack attorneys. Read More » Senate Democrats and House Republicans have held hearings to explore how Congress might fix the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its newly unconstitutional Section 4, and Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced a shift in resources in the Civil Rights Division to focus on elements of the law that remained untouched by the high court's ruling in June. Read More » The financial disclosure reports that District of Columbia local judges file every summer offer insight into what they're up to when they're not on the bench — Boy Scouts leader; a singer; a church elder. What the reports don't publicly reveal — for the most part — is any financial information. Read More » Holland & Knight made headlines for all but eliminating the billable hour for its lobbying clients in January 2012 in favor of the retainer. More than a year later, that all-in approach has been all but ignored by the larger law firm government-affairs practices in Washington. Read More » Failure to observe workers's rights can result in serious monetary or other consequences. Read More » A federal judge's decision to vacate the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Dodd-Frank Section 1504 rule, which would force U.S.-listed petroleum and mining companies to disclose payments to all governments around the world, is wrong on the law and wrong on policy. Read More » Four months after being hired to help the city of Detroit find a way out from under its mountain of debt, Jones Day is taking the lead advisory role on what is poised to become the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Read More » Lawyers in the Japanese market say cultural differences and an inability to attract the best local talent has hurt many international firms' efforts to build bengoshi practices and compete with the top local firms. Read More » The 550-lawyer Australian firm's client ultimately paid almost $6.5 million in a settlement with the tax office. Read More » | 
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