Judge, Lawyers Say Shutdown to Harm Judiciary

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Judge, Lawyers Say Shutdown to Harm Judiciary • NSA Director Warns: Don't Stop Phone Records Collection • Judge Finds Segregation Persists in Maryland Higher Education • Former White House Lawyer Joins Boies Schiller • House Armed Services Committee GC Heads to Covington • Government Shutdown Puts Law Student Externs on the Street Judge, Lawyers Say Shutdown to Harm Judiciary The last government shutdown in 1996 had a "debilitating" effect on court operations, retired U.S. District Judge W. Royal Furgeson Jr. told lawmakers on Capitol Hill today. Testifying in Washington, Furgeson said the judiciary, already grappling with budget cuts from... Read More » NSA Director Warns: Don't Stop Phone Records Collection National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander said Tuesday that the U.S. government should retain the power to collect phone records in bulk from telecommunications companies, despite a push in Congress to scrap the controversial surveillance program. Speaking at Cyber 7,... Read More » Judge Finds Segregation Persists in Maryland Higher Education The state of Maryland failed to take steps to fix segregation in public higher education in violation of students' constitutional rights, a federal trial judge said Monday. U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake found Maryland continued to allow traditionally white institutions... Read More » Former White House Lawyer Joins Boies Schiller A former associate counsel to President Barack Obama has joined Boies, Schiller & Flexner as a partner in the firm's litigation department. Michael Gottlieb, a White House lawyer from January 2009 to January 2010 and again from May 2011 until... Read More » House Armed Services Committee GC Heads to Covington The former general counsel and deputy staff director of the House Armed Services Committee is joining Covington & Burling's public policy and government affairs practice. Roger Zakheim starts November 4. On Capitol Hill, Zakheim worked on the... Read More » Government Shutdown Puts Law Student Externs on the Street Randall Miller is a law student with time on his hands. Since mid-September, the 3L at Washington and Lee University School of Law had been spending fours day per week in an externship with the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission in Washington. Then came the government shutdown. Read More »

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