NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Amid Shutdown, DOJ Urges Judges to Stay Civil Cases • D.C. Courts to Furlough One-Third of Employees During Shutdown • Supreme Court Adds Patent Troll Case to its Docket • Round Two for Patton Boggs in Fee Fight • CFTC Enforcement Chief to Step Down • Judge Rules for House Oversight in Fast and Furious Suit • U.S. Business Groups Worry About Shutdown, Debt Ceiling • Dentons, McKenna Long Confirm Merger Talks • Hard Fight Seen for DOJ Against N.C. Voting Restrictions • 'Dream Team' Says Case Could End Gay Marriage Controversy Citing the government shutdown, U.S. Justice Department lawyers are urging federal trial judges to stay litigation in civil cases. Federal prosecutors across the country started filing requests for extensions yesterday in civil cases in anticipation of the... Read More » With the federal government officially shut down, about one-third of employees in the District of Columbia's federally funded local court system will be furloughed starting today. Judges and other employees in the D.C. Superior Court and D.C. Court of Appeals... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Go Formal for Justice Gala Join the DC Bar Foundation Young Lawyers Network on Sat., Oct. 19, 8 pm - 12 am, Mayer Brown (1999 K St. NW) for open bar, dancing, auction, and more! Black Tie Optional. Get your tickets now at goformalforjustice.eventbrite.com, $100 online, $150 at the door. Questions? goformalforjustice@gmail.com. Thanks to our Platinum Sponsors: Huron Legal, White & Case LLP, and Cecily Baskir & John Freedman. Click here for more info. | The Supreme Court on Tuesday added eight new cases to its argument docket for the new term starting next week, including a patent case that could discourage litigation by patent trolls. In spite of the federal government shutdown, it was... Read More » For the second time this year, Patton Boggs is suing a former client in District of Columbia Superior Court over allegedly unpaid fees. The firm initially sued former client Keystone Global Co. Ltd. on June 24, accusing the South Korea-based... Read More » David Meister is stepping down as director of enforcement at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in October, the agency announced today. A former partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Meister has led the 130-lawyer division since 2010, filing... Read More » One of Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.'s biggest legal and political headaches isn't going away. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Monday night declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed against Holder by the House Committee on Oversight and Government... Read More » The U.S. business community is bracing for a possible knock-out blow after Congress failed to reach a deal Monday to keep the federal government running—resulting in the first government shutdown since 1996 and setting the stage for another battle over... Read More » Am Law 100 firms McKenna Long & Aldridge and Dentons confirmed to The Am Law Daily late Monday that they are discussing a potential tie-up that would create a firm with more than 3,100... Read More » The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday sued North Carolina over the state's new voting laws in an expansion of federal voter rights enforcement that elections attorneys predict will face even higher hurdles than a similar fight in Texas. Read More » A lawsuit challenging Virginia's gay marriage and civil union bans may provide the vehicle for a final U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage—at least that is the hope of the suit's "dream team" of lawyers. Read More » | 
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