Top Obama Administration Officials Meeting to Discuss Voting Rights

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Top Obama Administration Officials Meeting to Discuss Voting Rights • Senate Judiciary to Review Mandatory-Minimum Sentencing • Postal Inspectors Press on as DOJ Moves to Sidelines • Imprisoned Lawyer in Fraud Case Sues DOJ for Documents • Revenues Up at Larger Law Firms • Patent Enforcement's 'Black Box' Top Obama Administration Officials Meeting to Discuss Voting Rights President Barack Obama is bringing his administration's top civil rights attorneys to a White House meeting today about voting rights enforcement, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last month gutting a key anti-discrimination provision. Attorney General Eric... Read More » Senate Judiciary to Review Mandatory-Minimum Sentencing The Senate Judiciary Committee this fall will begin its review of legislation that would allow federal judges to impose prison sentences shorter than the mandatory minimums. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the committee and a co-author of the Justice... Read More » Postal Inspectors Press on as DOJ Moves to Sidelines A group of former U.S. Postal Service inspectors who are defendants in a businessman's long-running retaliation suit in Washington have turned to outside counsel to press their challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court as a trial date inches closer. The... Read More » Imprisoned Lawyer in Fraud Case Sues DOJ for Documents A lawyer serving 23 years in prison for fraud is suing the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies over the rejection of his requests for documents related to his case. A federal jury in North Carolina found Gregory... Read More » Revenues Up at Larger Law Firms The Survey of Law Firm Economics, a joint project of The National Law Journal and ALM Legal Intelligence, shows that at law firms with more than 150 attorneys, revenue per lawyer (RPL) rose by 8.5 percent last year. But at law firms on the other end of the spectrum — those with one to nine attorneys — revenue plunged by 8.1 percent. Read More » Patent Enforcement's 'Black Box' When Microsoft Corp. won a patent suit against Motorola Mobility Inc. at the International Trade Commission last year, it looked like a decisive victory. In reality, it turned out to be just the first round of the fight. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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