Conflict of Interest Alleged in $5M CFPB Contract

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Conflict of Interest Alleged in $5M CFPB Contract • Foley & Lardner Sued for Alleged Malpractice • House Committee Votes to Extend Supreme Court Police Authority • Intellectual Ventures CEO Warns of Premature IP Reform • George Mason Law Adds D.C. Circuit Judge to Faculty • Court Delays Arguments in Dispute Over Anonymous Wikipedia Editor Conflict of Interest Alleged in $5M CFPB Contract Alleging "an enormous conflict of interest," a member of Congress today raised concerns about a $5 million contract that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau awarded to a company with ties to the agency. New York-based ideas42 won the CFPB contract... Read More » Foley & Lardner Sued for Alleged Malpractice For the second time in less than a year, Foley & Lardner and a Washington-based partner are facing legal malpractice claims from a former client upset about the firm's representation of Chinese competitors. GEO Specialty Chemicals Inc., an Indiana-based glycine... Read More » House Committee Votes to Extend Supreme Court Police Authority By Alex Zank A chief responsibility for the U.S. Supreme Court police is the protection of justices, staff and visitors at the high court--inside the building itself and on the grounds. But what about when justices step away from 1... Read More » Intellectual Ventures CEO Warns of Premature IP Reform As the Obama administration and U.S. lawmakers look to rein in the patent-assertion entities often called "patent trolls," Nathan Myhrvold, the chief executive officer of Intellectual Ventures Management, told a standing-room-only crowd on Capitol Hill Thursday that the U.S. government... Read More » George Mason Law Adds D.C. Circuit Judge to Faculty George Mason University School of Law has recruited Judge Douglas Ginsburg, senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, as a full-time faculty member. The Arlington, Va.-based law school also recruited Damien Geradin, a Covington &... Read More » Court Delays Arguments in Dispute Over Anonymous Wikipedia Editor The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has postponed arguments scheduled for this month in a dispute over an attempt to unmask an anonymous Wikipedia editor sued for defamation. Washington attorney Susan Burke, who recently left her solo practice to... Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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