Headlines • Federal Judiciary Budget Increases in Last-Minute Budget Deal • Beset by Pirates? There Are Lawyers Who Specialize in That • Law School Pecking Order Has Proved Durable, Study Says • Justices Mull Government's Power to 'Beggar' Defendants • Feds Fight Bid to Delay Mitigation Talks in Boston Bombing • Groups Demand Details on 'Hemisphere' Phone Tracking • Making the Medicaid Bed and Lying in It • High Fashion or Religious Fervor? Headwear Laws Fraught With Trouble • Legal Services Lawyers See Shutdown's Effects on Low-Income Clients • Sullivan & Cromwell Adds Supreme Court Advocate A budget deal Congress approved late Wednesday to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling provides $51 million in additional funding to the judiciary and to federal defenders. Federal courts officials and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee greeted... Read More » Seward & Kissel partner Bruce Paulsen represents shipping companies and their insurers, and has been involved in more than 40 piracies. He talks to NLJ about the legal issues involved. Read More » Legal educators love to blame U.S. News & World Report's annual law school rankings for drawing what they see as arbitrary distinctions between schools that play an outsized role in where prospective students choose to enroll. But a fairly rigid hierarchy existed long before U.S. News entered the picture in the early 1990s, according to an academic article by three law professors. Read More » When the government freezes the money that an indicted criminal defendant needs to hire a lawyer, he or she should be able to challenge that indictment during a pretrial hearing, a Miami attorney argued to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. Read More » Federal prosecutors have urged a federal judge not to intervene with their plans to meet with accused Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on October 24 to discuss whether he should face the death penalty. Read More » ACLU lawyer Linda Lye hopes to challenge the government's use of secret surveillance tactics in a Northern District drug prosecution. Read More » Many states have refused billions in Medicaid money. Others, like Ohio, struggle with a decision. Read More » The distinction between faith-based garb and trendy styles isn't always clear. Read More » Civil legal services lawyers in the District of Columbia say that nearly two weeks in to the government shutdown, their low-income clients are hurting, from furloughed workers living paycheck-to-paycheck to retirees who can't get help from shuttered federal agencies. The... Read More » A New York firm that specializes in financial services is looking to bolster its appellate practice with the hiring of a Supreme Court advocate for the U.S. Department of Justice. Jeffrey Wall, an assistant to the Solicitor General who has... Read More » | 
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