Headlines • Seven Best Law School Mentions in Congress This Year • UT Wins Race-Bias Case Filed by Former Law School Employee • Judge Asked to Trim Victim Statements in Bulger Sentencing • Chevron v. Donziger: A Dickensian Cheat Sheet • Closed Until Further Notice • Law Review Articles Need A Makeover, Study Finds • Federal Judges Push Back • New Blog Airs Law Schools' Laundry • Legal Services Lawyers See Shutdown's Effects on Low-Income Clients • D.C. Courts, Lawyers Feel the Pain During Shutdown In remarks on the House and Senate floors, members of Congress this year brought up law school in a variety of ways. Here are the seven best mentions this year, as reported in the Congressional Record. Read More » The University of Texas School of Law has prevailed on appeal in a racial-discrimination lawsuit brought against a former staffer who was fired in 2010. Read More » Lawyers for accused mobster James "Whitey" Bulger and the Boston U.S. Attorney's Office are facing off about whether victims of crimes for which he was acquitted should be allowed to speak out during his sentencing hearing next month. Read More » Twenty years of litigation. A $19 billion judgment. Sixty law firms and 2000 legal professionals — and that's just on one side. Chevron in Ecuador can plausibly claim to be the messiest case since Jarndyce sued Jarndyce. Read More » For the first time since 1996, the U.S. government has ground to a halt. The House of Representatives and the Senate are at odds over funding and all signs point to a continuing bitter fight. The National Law Journal and its sister publications at ALM will provide coverage throughout the shutdown. Read More » Judges, law professors, practicing attorneys and student editors alike believe that the current law review model needs reform, according to a new article based on an extensive survey of how those in the legal community view legal journals. Read More » Frustrated by the budget stalemate in Congress, many judges across the country declared all employees essential in the face of a shutdown—a bold but necessary move, the judges said, to ensure basic court operations past the judiciary's funding date of October 17. Read More » A trio of deans this month launched the first group blog written specifically by law school deans, with the intention of driving the national conversation about legal education. 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 » At the start of the government shutdown October 1, the federally funded District of Columbia court system announced furloughs for about one-third of its employees. Over the past week, though, the courts have started calling certain furloughed employees back to... Read More » | 
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