Federal Judges Team up to Decry Spending Cuts to Courts

Headlines • Federal Judges Team up to Decry Spending Cuts to Courts • Study: Slack Large-Firm Hiring is Everybody's Headache • Trial Is On Against American in Uganda Anti-Gay Campaign • Abuse Victims: Crypts Purchase Created Conflict for Judge • D.C. Deal Makers of the Year • INADMISSIBLE: From Jailhouse Lawyer to Clerk • Winning: Top Litigators Tell Their Stories • Let the Sun Shine on Surveillance Court Judges • $20 Million Toyota Trial Centers on Missing Brake Override • The Most Diverse Law Firms Are... Federal Judges Team up to Decry Spending Cuts to Courts In an unusual show of agreement and public lobbying, the chief judges of nearly every federal district court have joined to warn Congress of the damage budget cuts have done to judicial operations. Read More » Study: Slack Large-Firm Hiring is Everybody's Headache The entry-level law job market isn't going to rebound anytime soon, and larger law firms' newly stingy hiring practices are largely to blame. That's the gist of a draft paper analyzing lawyer-hiring trends over the past 30 years. Read More » Trial Is On Against American in Uganda Anti-Gay Campaign A federal judge has refused to dismiss a Ugandan gay rights organization's lawsuit accusing a Springfield, Mass., lawyer and minister for fostering repression in Uganda. Read More » Abuse Victims: Crypts Purchase Created Conflict for Judge A committee representing sex abuse victims with claims against the bankrupt Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee has moved to recuse a federal judge, alleging he has a conflict because he purchased final resting places for his deceased parents on church land potentially affected by a decision he made last month. Read More » D.C. Deal Makers of the Year Washington lawyers tackled some of the most notable transactions in the country last year in an array of industries, navigating complex mergers and acquisitions, real estate deals and project financing. Read More » INADMISSIBLE: From Jailhouse Lawyer to Clerk Shon Hopwood, the onetime jailhouse lawyer who served time in federal prison for robbing banks, has been hired as a 2014 law clerk for Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » Winning: Top Litigators Tell Their Stories Some of the nation's best litigators tell how they prevailed in big cases against the odds. Read More » Let the Sun Shine on Surveillance Court Judges Lost in the tumult surrounding the National Security Agency surveillance program is the imperative of overseeing the intelligence community to ensure it operates effectively — while respecting the privacy and civil liberties of Americans. Read More » $20 Million Toyota Trial Centers on Missing Brake Override Jurors in Los Angeles heard opening statements Thursday in the first bellwether trial against Toyota Motor Corp. over acceleration defects. Read More » The Most Diverse Law Firms Are... Vault.com has released its diversity rankings, and a single firm has taken the number one spot throughout. Read More »

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