Headlines • Federal Circuit OKs Plan to Restore Vets' Legal Rights • Penn Program Marries the Law and Advanced Engineering • Rulings Effectively Kill Prius Brake-Defect Litigation • Court: 'Garbage' May Have Tainted Police Search of Van • U.S. Acknowledges its Failings During Bulger's Reign • The Windy City's Litigation Rainmakers • A Guide for How to Handle Evil Clients • The Midwest Report: Surveying the Heartland • King & Wood Mallesons's New Merger Faces Tougher Market • King & Wood Mallesons, SJ Berwin Agree to Merge The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs escaped court-ordered sanctions on Monday after a federal appellate panel signed off on the department's plan to remedy harm to veterans caused by a 2011 rule eliminating certain appellate rights before the agency's Board of Veterans' Appeals. Read More » The University of Pennsylvania Law School is launching its Law & Technology Program, which will expand the school's existing technology-centered research and forge closer ties with the university's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 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.
Contact Jeffery Olson, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Provost and Director of Library and Information Science: (718) 990-6200; dlis@stjohns.edu. Visit www.stjohns.edu/lawlibrarian | A California man who objected to the $1.6 billion sudden-acceleration class action settlement with Toyota because the deal might have released his claims in a separate case has failed to secure class certification, effectively ending the litigation over brake defects in the Prius hybrid. Read More » There was nothing particularly special about the Ford minivan that passed by a Kansas state trooper watching traffic on Interstate 70 one morning in May 2010, an appeals court said in recounting the traffic stop that would compel the court to confront a clash between technology and the Fourth Amendment. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Join MINTZ LEVIN - August 12 Join us August 12 at 1:00 pm EST, 10:00 am PST for a webinar featuring a discussion about the impact of the Windsor decision on employee benefits, immigration, employment, wealth transfer, securities, bankruptcy, litigation, taxes, and more. Visit www.mintz.com/Post-DOMA-Webinar for details. NY & CA CLE credit available.
| A federal prosecutor acknowledged on Monday that the Boston Federal Bureau of Investigation office was a "mess" during accused mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's reign, but insisted during closing arguments that what mattered in Bulger's trial was the accused's involvement in 19 murders and other crimes. Read More » 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 » The London nonprofit A4ID has published its primer on how to handle your evil clients, "The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A guide for the legal profession." But it doesn't pretend to have all the answers. 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 » Changed economic conditions mean the firm now seems to be bringing together three slowing markets instead of two booming ones. Read More » The tie-up will create a new firm with 2,700 lawyers and more than $1 billion in annual revenues. Read More » | 
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