Headlines • Holder Would Make Texas a Test Case Over Voting Limits • Law School's Showplace Campus Inspires Raft of Litigation • Fresh Challenges Emerge to $1.6 Billion Toyota Settlement • Sixth Circuit Sides With FBI Against Profiling Fears • Ronald Motley, Titan of Plaintiffs Bar, Dead at 68 • Firms Get Leaner and Cheaper Amid Boston's Slow Rebound • Boston's Best • Investment and Real Estate Spur Connecticut Growth • Toyota Attacks Claims of Accelerator Software Bug • Four Ways to Close the Gender Pay Gap The U.S. Department of Justice announced two legal actions that will make Texas the battleground over voter rights enforcement—and the spot where Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. makes a stand for the weakened Voting Rights Act of 1965. Read More » The Thomas Jefferson School of Law's $90 million, state-of-the-art new building in downtown San Diego opened to much fanfare in 2011. But the sleek, eight-story glass building with an underground parking garage has become a legal headache, spawning lawsuits over alleged construction flaws and unpaid debts. 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 | Five class members have appealed the recent approval of a $1.6 billion settlement between Toyota and thousands of consumers who claim to have lost value on their vehicles following the 2010 recalls for sudden acceleration defects. Read More » A federal appeals court has upheld the FBI's refusal to release records about the agency's use of racial and ethnic demographic data in Michigan against fears the agency might be engaging in racial profiling. Read More » Ronald Motley, a plaintiffs attorney known for groundbreaking litigation against asbestos manufacturers, tobacco companies and the financial backers of the September 11, 2001, attacks, died early Thursday morning. He was 68. Read More » Boston law firms are reemerging from the 2008 financial collapse and subsequent Great Recession that swamped practices across the region. Read More » We recognize the Boston area's top corporate legal departments — the ones setting the standard in pro bono service, use of technology, management of outside counsel and more. Read More » With an expanding hedge fund industry and its ranking as the country's fourth-largest state in terms of household income, law firms in Connecticut are continuing their climb back from the recession. Read More » The Japanese automaker has moved to strike evidence from an expert who claims that problems in the electronic throttle control system source code was to blame for unintended acceleration by Toyota vehicles. Read More » Women still aren't getting a fair shake at the firm--here's what can be done about it. Read More » | 
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