NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Bruce Cohen, Longtime Senate Judiciary Lawyer, Retires • Pioneering Legal Educator Headed for Syracuse Presidency • Crowell Partners Put Pedal to the Metal • FISA Court Orders Declassification Review of Select Rulings • In 1999 Slaying, Testimony on DNA Leads to New Trial • Ex-NSA GC on Snowden, Security, and Privacy • State Defends Exclusion of Young Black Males From Jury • Judicial Commission Holds Rare Public Forum on Nomination Process • Medical Journal Accused of Tilting Malpractice Verdict • Appeals Court Ponders Citizens' Right to Tape Traffic Stops Bruce Cohen, one of the most influential lawyers on Capitol Hill, has ended his more than two-decade career as a top attorney with the Senate Judiciary Committee. As chief counsel for the powerful committee run by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.),... Read More » One of legal education's most active leaders is moving on. Washington University in St. Louis School of Law Dean Kent Syverud has been named the next chancellor and president of Syracuse University, effective in January. Read More » Crowell & Moring partners Jeffrey Pagano and Keith Harrison with their '55 Chevy hot rod. It takes Keith Harrison and his 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air a little less than 12 seconds to drive a quarter mile drag strip. Harrison, a... Read More » Over the objection of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court today ordered the government to conduct a declassification review of rulings that address the provision of federal law that allowed the government to collect data on... Read More » In 1999, Dennis Dolinger was stabbed to death in his home. More than a decade later, the man convicted on a murder charge will get a new trial. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the defendant... Read More » Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's leaks earlier this year about the U.S. government's surveillance activities unleashed a flood of concerns about U.S. privacy protections. CorpCounsel.com last week discussed Snowden's revelations and the fallout from them with Steptoe &... Read More » A federal appeals court is weighing whether a Massachusetts prosecutor's exclusion of three young black men from a jury was constitutional. The state claims that it was because youth is "not a protected class." Read More » Much of the judicial selection process for local courts in the District of Columbia takes place behind closed doors. Last night, members of the commission who vet judicial applicants took part in a rare public forum on the process of... Read More » A federal appeals court is weighing whether medical malpractice plaintiffs who lost birth-injury cases in which the defense relied on a medical article the plaintiffs believe is false can sue the doctors who wrote it and the publishers. Read More » A federal appeals court on Wednesday considered whether a citizen has a constitutional right to videotape police officers at a traffic stop. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES | 
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