Headlines • Lawyers Face Fraud Probe Over Roles in BP Spill Claims • Massive, Free Online Classes Catch on With Law Schools • Judges Suffer Under Weight of Caseloads • Judge Allows Expert Testimony in Cellphone Patent Fight • My Life in Limbo Waiting for a Law License • Desperately Seeking Patent Protection for Combination Therapies • INADMISSIBLE: For Wilkins, A Bit Tougher This Time • In-House Counsel Profile: Bi-Lo Holdings' M. Sandlin Grimm • Business Group Outlines Affordable Care Act Concerns to Congress • On Capitol Hill, DOJ Explains Marijuana Stance A federal judge overseeing the Deepwater Horizon litigation has found no evidence that conflicts of interest tainted the claims process in the $9.6 billion settlement, but ordered four lawyers to explain why they should not be disqualified from representing oil spill victims. Read More » Massive open online courses—or MOOCs—are all the rage in higher education. But law schools are only starting to test the waters with these free, Internet-based classes that can reach thousands of students around the globe. Read More » Being a federal judge apparently isn't the career path it used to be. On that, the Senate Judiciary Committee found bipartisan agreement at a hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, where judges spoke about the thankless grind of overwhelming caseloads. Read More » In a ruling that highlights heated court fights over patent damages, a California federal judge has rejected a patent litigant's bid to bar an expert's testimony about a hypothetical lump sum the opposing party would have paid for a license on cellphone technology. Read More » An undocumented immigrant has overcome all hurdles to practice law, except the most important. Read More » Patent protection is vital because the development process can require years of extremely costly research and clinical testing. Read More » U.S. District Judge Robert Wilkins sailed through his judicial confirmation process in 2010. Almost three years later, he'll be back testifying on Capitol Hill this week as a nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » M. Sandlin "Sandy" Grimm is general counsel for Bi-Lo Holdings LLC, the parent company of Bi-Lo and Winn-Dixie grocery stores, among the largest supermarket chains in the United States. Read More » With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate less than 16 months away, companies' concerns about the provision in the law haven't abated, as a representative of major U.S. businesses and trade groups Tuesday called on Congress to... Read More » U.S. Justice Department officials decided not to challenge state laws that decriminalized marijuana because law enforcement officials feared government action could turn Colorado and Washington into black markets for the drug, Deputy Attorney General James Cole testified Tuesday. Cole told... Read More » | 
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