Headlines • The Midwest Report: Surveying the Heartland • Diabetes Drugs in the Dock • Manning Convicted of Espionage • Hail Mary Pass for Judgeships • The Windy City's Litigation Rainmakers • Amid the Debate, J.D.'s True Value Gets Lost • 'DaimlerChrysler' Revisits Personal Jurisdiction • INADMISSIBLE: After Seven Years, Just a Wee Longer • King & Wood Mallesons, SJ Berwin Agree to Merge • Sidley Austin Adds Singapore Partner 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 » Cases have targeted four drugs so far, but plaintiffs lawyers anticipate that others could end up as part of litigation that could grow to as many as 2,500 cases. On July 25, lawyers on both sides asked the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to coordinate the actions for pretrial purposes in federal court in San Diego. 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 | The court-martial of Private Bradley Manning resolved the charges of disclosing a cache of secret documents to WikiLeaks but left open the central legal questions raised by his prosecution. Read More » It's been years since Congress created more federal judge positions, and the latest proposal seeking to make up for lost time appears as quixotic as it is ambitious. Two senators introduced legislation last week to add 91 judges to the nation's circuit and district courts, which would represent the largest increase in more than three decades. 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 » It's not easy, but landing a rewarding job — and paying the bills — can be done in today's job market. Read More » At issue is when U.S. courts can hear human rights and other claims against non-U.S. parent companies. Read More » When the country's already waited seven years to have a permanent director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, what's another five hours? That's how long the Senate waited on July 31 for Senator Heidi Heitkamp, who had been ill, to fly in from North Dakota to participate in a vote on the nomination of Minnesota U.S. attorney B. Todd Jones to lead the ATF. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » The tie-up will create a new firm with 2,700 lawyers and more than $1 billion in annual revenues. Read More » Nicholas Grambas joins from the Melbourne office of Gilbert + Tobin. Read More » | 
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