Headlines • INSIDE WASHINGTON • Harmony in Antitrust Enforcement • Precedents on the Line in New Term • Top 10 Cases on Supreme Court Docket for 2013-2014 Term • How Far is Too Far in Seeking Confidentiality? • Two Wrongs Make it Worse in Cops' Retrial • Beyond the Ping-Pong Table: Lessons for Lawyers From Startup Companies • Enough With the At-Work Kissing • Town Abandons Claim to Nation's First Patent • VOIR DIRE: NFL vs. M.I.A. Our annual report on law firms and lobbying shops in the nation's capital. Read More » For decades, antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have squabbled over turf, but now the two agencies are moving toward a rare level of rapport. Read More » The Roberts Court will confront pleas to reconsider or overrule a number of key decisions undergirding hot-button issues on the new term's docket. Will the justices take baby steps or the giant strides the activists prefer as another critical term unfolds? Read More » The justices face a broad range of issues, ranging from abortion to prayer in public places, campaign finance to affirmative action. Here, at a glance, are 10 of the cases most worth following. Read More » An administrative law judge in a matter recently applied, albeit reluctantly, the National Labor Relations Board's controversial rule prohibiting an employer from even asking employees making a complaint not to discuss the matter with their co-workers. Read More » In the Internet age, as word of prosecutorial misconduct spreads more widely and patterns seem to emerge, judicial confidence in prosecutors may be waning. Read More » The legal field has remained tone deaf to the lessons of America's startup culture. That's unfortunate, because startups can serve as a model for innovative, efficient and invigorating work environments. Read More » Have you noticed that business folks are now behaving like homecoming queen contestants when they see each other? Read More » For decades, Vermont residents believed that Samuel Hopkins, who in 1790 was granted the nation's first patent, lived in Pittsford. Even when evidence was presented to show this was untrue, citizens of Pittsford clung to the myth. It appears, however, that the state has now informed them it's time to let go. Read More » One might reasonably have expected controversy when the National Football League invited Madonna to play the Super Bowl halftime show in 2012. Surprisingly, the controversy didn't involve Madonna herself. Plus: revelations of inflated revenues, and minding one's manners in this week's column. Read More » |