Headlines • Prayer Circle • Cuts Loom for Private Defenders • Peak Position • Demand for Clerks Heats Up • INADMISSIBLE: Supreme Court Says Spying Crossed Line • The Broader Message of the Stop and Frisk Ruling • What They're Not Telling Us About Telephone Records Collections • Changes in E.U. Merger Rules Could Be Huge • Toyota Attacks Claims of Accelerator Software Bug • Four Ways to Close the Gender Pay Gap In 1983, in one of his many causes, Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers strenuously argued before his colleagues and then through the federal courts that nothing religious in nature should transpire on the legislative floor. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed with him in the case that bears his name: Marsh v. Chambers. Thirty years later, the Roberts Court is being asked to take that decision upholding legislative prayers a step further in one of the new term's potentially biggest cases. Read More » The U.S. Judicial Conference has announced plans to reduce compensation rates to the private Criminal Justice Act panel attorneys by $15 per hour starting on September 1 unless Congress increases support for the courts in the 2014 budget. The cut rates would continue for the next 13 months. Read More » From key practice areas and diversity in the bar, to growth strategy and billing arrangements, Washington managing partners give their observations—from the top. Read More » The always-hot legal market for Supreme Court law clerks has gotten even hotter for those who served at the high court last term. Hiring bonuses have reached $300,000. Read More » The U.S. Department of Justice certainly wasn't eager to publicly share a 2011 opinion by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that found the government violated the Fourth Amendment in sweeping up tens of thousands of Americans' emails. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » Federal district court Judge Shira Scheindlin's stunning 195-page opinion on August 12 about stop-and-frisk in New York City should be mandatory reading for every police commissioner and police chief in the United States. Read More » The Obama administration released a white paper on August 9 about its telephone metadata collection program. The paper is supposed to explain the legal basis for the government's collection of information about all Americans' phone calls. Ultimately, the paper raises more questions than it answers. Read More » The European Commission recently published a consultation paper that invites comments on a proposal to allow review of the acquisition of noncontrolling minority shareholdings. The proposed reform is the most significant in the last 10 years and could have a huge impact on many corporate transactions. 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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