Headlines • BP Hopes Third Time's the Charm in Blocking Spill Claims • Senator Queries Judicial Conferences in Time of Austerity • Wiretap Law's Drafter Comes to Rajaratnam's Defense • BNY Mellon Can't Dodge New York AG's $2 Billion Forex Suit • The Windy City's Litigation Rainmakers • Holder's Texas-Size Gambit: Will It Save the Voting Rights Act? • 'DaimlerChrysler' Revisits Personal Jurisdiction • The Midwest Report: Surveying the Heartland • Lawsuit Dismissed Against Black Farmers Class Action Lawyers • King & Wood Mallesons's New Merger Faces Tougher Market BP PLC, citing what it called fresh evidence of fraud in the claims process, once again has asked a federal judge to halt payments from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement fund. Read More » Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wrote to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts last week asking about what he considered lavish accommodations at judicial conferences and courthouse construction, and questioning why that money couldn't go to the suffering federal public defenders instead. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Law Librarian M.S.: St. John's Flexible, affordable, St. John's University's M.S. and Advanced Certificate programs in Library and Information Science combine top faculty with the resources of New York's best law libraries. Students receive well-equipped laptops.
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| This week, we train our sights on litigation shops in Chicago—the city that brought us the skyscraper, Muddy Waters, Playboy and Ebony, and McDonald’s. Oh, and a heck of a lot of legal talent. Read More » Texas bail-in may not look like a great tool compared to the old preclearance regime, but it's better than nothing. Read More » At issue is when U.S. courts can hear human rights and other claims against non-U.S. parent companies. Read More » Across the nation's midsection, the terrain is distinctly uneven. Detroit's recent bankruptcy underscores the legal industry's difficulties there, especially since local law firms expect big outside firms to grab most of the legal work. Chicago, on the other hand, demonstrates strong signs of an improving economy. We've tracked those markets and others in this analysis of the successes and struggles throughout the Midwest. Read More » Lawyers involved in the high-profile black farmers discrimination litigation defeated a lawsuit brought by an advocate for the farmers who claimed he was promised fees but never paid. The National Black Farmers Association and its president, John Boyd Jr., sued... Read More » Changed economic conditions mean the firm now seems to be bringing together three slowing markets instead of two booming ones. Read More » | 
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