Headlines • Winning: Top Litigators Tell Their Stories • These Students are on the Six-Year Plan • D.C. Deal Makers of the Year • ABA Panel Favors Dropping Law School Tenure Requirement • Lance Armstrong's Bicoastal Battles • A Split in the Ninth Circuit • INADMISSIBLE: From Jailhouse Lawyer to Clerk • 'Myriad' of Unanswered Questions Remain • $20 Million Toyota Trial Centers on Missing Brake Override • Lawsuit Dismissed Against Black Farmers Class Action Lawyers Some of the nation's best litigators tell how they prevailed in big cases against the odds. Read More » Programs like 3+3, which essentially shave a year off the undergraduate degree and allows participants to earn both bachelor's and juris doctor degrees in six years, have been cropping up with increasing frequency during the past two years as competition for law students has stiffened. Read More » 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 » The American Bar Association's Council of the Section of the Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar on Friday tentatively embraced two plans that would eliminate tenure as an accreditation requirement. Read More » The publishers of Lance Armstrong's autobiographical books have moved to dismiss a proposed class action asserting that they misled consumers into believing they were buying an honest narrative of the disgraced cyclist's real life. Read More » It's the federal courts version of the Hatfields and McCoys, but a move by one key U.S. senator could soon end the feud over a long-vacant judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Read More » 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 » Last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, which considered whether portions of human genes may be patented, generated an extraordinary amount of passion for an intellectual property case. Read More » Jurors in Los Angeles heard opening statements Thursday in the first bellwether trial against Toyota Motor Corp. over acceleration defects. Read More » Lawyers involved in the high-profile black farmers discrimination litigation defeated a lawsuit brought by an advocate for the farmers who claimed he was promised fees but never paid. The National Black Farmers Association and its president, John Boyd Jr., sued... Read More » | 
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