Headlines • Once-Secret FISA Court Opinion Reveals Unlawful Spying • Two Law School Officials Slapped for Fudging Numbers • Minnesota Draws Accolades for Settlement With 'Troll' • Affirming Sanctions, Court Tosses Suit between Recruiters • Challenge Rejected to California's Law School Reporting Rule • Berkeley Law Dean Is Stepping Down, Citing Health Concerns • Make the Time to Develop Business • INADMISSIBLE: Familiar Faces at Jackson Sentencing • Toyota Attacks Claims of Accelerator Software Bug • Four Ways to Close the Gender Pay Gap An 85-page once-secret court ruling released publicly Wednesday revealed that intelligence authorities unlawfully collected the e-mail communication of tens of thousands of Americans over several years, violating constitutionally protected privacy interests. Read More » Former Villanova University School of Law Dean Mark Alan Sargent and former University of Illinois College of Law assistant dean for admissions Paul Pless both have been disciplined for their roles in admission scandals. 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 | Patent attorneys are celebrating a first-in-the-nation settlement reached by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson that essentially kicks a Texas patent "troll" out of the state. Read More » A Texas appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit brought by BCG Attorney Search Inc. against rival recruiter Robert Kinney and upheld $75,000 in sanctions against BCG. Read More » A federal judge has tentatively dismissed a Southern California law school's challenge to a new state regulation that requires accredited institutions to post the bar examination pass rates of its graduates. Read More » When Christopher Edley Jr. joined UC-Berkeley School of Law as dean in 2004, "he came in like a blast of fresh air," said law professor Robert Berring Jr. On Monday, the man who colleagues credit with modernizing Berkeley Law — expanding its faculty and improving its curriculum, research centers and student financial aid programs — announced he would step down early for health reasons. Read More » The 80/20 rule certainly applies to rainmakers — 20 percent of lawyers bring in 80 percent of the business at any given firm, and sometimes more. Why is it that some lawyers just can't seem to make rain? Read More » As former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. prepared to receive his sentence last week, he had a familiar face at his side. Steptoe & Johnson litigation partner Reid Weingarten represented Jackson when he was a witness in the 2011 retrial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Plus more in this week's column. 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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