Headlines • Missing Box on Verdict Form Means Retrial for Defendant • Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit Withdrawn Without Explanation • Justice Kennedy Kicks Off Penn's Visiting Judge Program • Harvard Law Prof Nominated for First Circuit • The Supreme Court's Reliance on Amicus Curiae in the 2012-13 Term • Law Schools Get Down to Business • VOIR DIRE: Not Clowning Around • L.A. Law • My Asian Eyes • Feds Prepare to Settle Mutilated Currency Forfeiture Case A money-laundering conspiracy defendant will be tried for the fourth time because his latest verdict form had no place for jurors to mark guilty or not guilty. Read More » Plaintiffs' lawyers leading the multidistrict litigation over alleged design defects in transvaginal mesh products have voluntarily dismissed the third bellwether case scheduled for trial, while manufacturer C.R. Bard Inc. has moved to toss out an earlier $2 million verdict. Read More » The University of Pennsylvania Law School is launching a visiting jurist program next week and has snagged an impressive inaugural participant: U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. Read More » Harvard Law School professor David Barron, who previously served in a top-level position in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, was nominated today to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Barron, formerly... Read More » In this, our third year analyzing the high court’s amicus docket for The National Law Journal, we wondered whether this steady increase in volume has influenced the Court’s receptiveness to amicus briefs. And for amici curiae, we questioned whether it is getting harder to stand out in the crowd. Read More » Finance and accounting, management, leadership and entrepreneurship — all components of a business education, not a legal one, right? Not anymore. A growing number of law schools are borrowing a page from the MBA playbook and adding courses intended to give students a foundation in business, in addition to the law. Read More » Around this time last year, hardcore rap duo Insane Clown Posse sued the FBI when they were included on its 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. Now they're facing a suit themselves. Plus: keeping up with the Kardashians' attorneys, and reality catches up with a would-be lawyer in this week's column. Read More » In this report, The National Law Journal recognizes top legal departments and their general counsel at companies in the Southern California region. Read More » TV anchorperson Julie Chen had cosmetic surgery to make herself more appealing (less Asian) to viewers. Would you go that far for your career? Read More » The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to settle a civil forfeiture dispute over more than $4.2 million in mutilated currency that agents seized last year in an international money laundering investigation, a prosecutor told a judge this afternoon. In court... Read More » |
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