Shutdown Averted, Courts Still Face Budget Woes

Headlines • Shutdown Averted, Courts Still Face Budget Woes • DePuy Quietly Settling Hip Replacement Device Litigation • Medical Journal Not Liable for Allegedly Flawed Case Study • University of Chicago Law School Attracts Another Big Gift • Chevron v. Donziger: The Money Man • Law School Pecking Order Has Proved Durable, Study Says • Beset by Pirates? There Are Lawyers Who Specialize in That • Debt-Collection Lawyers Chafe At Consumer Bureau Oversight • Law Review Articles Need A Makeover, Study Finds • INADMISSIBLE: On the Hill, 'Mr. Social Security' Takes the Fifth Shutdown Averted, Courts Still Face Budget Woes The federal judiciary never felt the full brunt of the 16-day government shutdown, since alternative funds allowed courtrooms and clerks' offices to operate normally when other government operations stalled. Read More » DePuy Quietly Settling Hip Replacement Device Litigation The abrupt resolution of cases that had been set for trial in September and October came after a Los Angeles jury awarded $8.3 million against DePuy on March 8, but the company won a defense verdict in Chicago on April 16. Read More » Medical Journal Not Liable for Allegedly Flawed Case Study A federal appeals court has shot down a Massachusetts consumer protection case against two doctors, a medical journal and its publisher over an allegedly flawed article cited by defendants in birth-injury medical malpractice cases. Read More » University of Chicago Law School Attracts Another Big Gift The University of Chicago Law School has received a $1 million donation from alumnus Jerome Katzin to bring judges to campus. This comes just two weeks after the announcement of a $5 million pledge from Bloomberg chief executive officer Daniel Doctoroff and his wife to create a business leadership program. Read More » Chevron v. Donziger: The Money Man Day Two of trial in Chevron's fraud and RICO case against Steven Donziger and his Ecuadorian allies centered on the testimony of Christopher Bogart, founder and CEO of the prominent U.S.-based litigation financier Burford Capital. Read More » Law School Pecking Order Has Proved Durable, Study Says 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 » Beset by Pirates? There Are Lawyers Who Specialize in That 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 » Debt-Collection Lawyers Chafe At Consumer Bureau Oversight When scores of debt-collection lawyers descend on Washington this week for a trade association meeting, they'll find one agency open that many may wish was closed: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Read More » Law Review Articles Need A Makeover, Study Finds 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 » INADMISSIBLE: On the Hill, 'Mr. Social Security' Takes the Fifth Eric Conn, "Mr. Social Security" in his advertisements as a disability payments attorney in Kentucky, doesn't bill himself as a quiet man. But when he was subpoenaed to testify at the Senate Homeland Security and Govern­mental Affairs Committee on Oct. 7, he didn't have much to say. Plus more in this week's column. Read More »

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