Headlines • Clerks Hiring Plan 'Kaput' • Regulatory Climate is Unsettled • New Plan in Mesh Litigation • Patton Boggs Issues Flurry of Fee Suits • Critics to High Court: Listen Up • Leahy: Arguments of Convenience Block Judicial Appointments • Handling E-Discovery Amid Tech Innovation and Global Expansion • Getting it Wrong Again and Again — Judicial Error's Compounding Effect • Gilbert Sues Ex-Client for $6 Million in Fees and Expenses • Deja Vu at Jones Day: Firm Hires Six More Supreme Court Clerks The judiciary increasingly has flouted voluntary guidelines on hiring judicial clerks by making offers ahead of schedule. Now judges have carte blanche to hire their clerks from among the ranks of second-year students. Read More » Leading regulatory law attorneys and current and former members of Congress say congressional deadlock could shift authority to other actors on regulations. Read More » With the parties no closer to settlement, the federal judge overseeing the transvaginal mesh device litigation is weighing an entirely new trial plan in hopes of resolving the nation's largest mass tort. Read More » Patton Boggs is not only putting a tighter squeeze on clients to pay their bills on time, but is also suing to collect unpaid bills as the firm continues cost-cutting measures and entertains a potential merger. Read More » Some of the most memorable moments from the U.S. Supreme Court's official proceedings are the ones that the justices seem least interested in making public. Read More » Once described as unconstitutional by the GOP, filibustering has become its default strategy. Read More » Evolving privacy and confidentiality laws — here and abroad — are making the e-discovery process more delicate than ever. Caught unaware, businesses and the lawyers who serve them can run afoul of the rules and land on the losing side of the law. Read More » A justice's words from 77 years ago created a mistake of presidential proportions. Read More » Washington-based law firm Gilbert is suing a former client for more than $6 million in legal fees and expenses in connection with a $26 million jury award. Gilbert's former client was Tire Engineering & Distribution LLC. The company, which does... Read More » New Jones Day associates (left to right): Ryan Watson, Ian Samuel, Charlotte Taylor, Emily Kennedy, Kenton Skarin, David Morrell. For the second year in a row, Jones Day has hired six law clerks who worked for Supreme Court justices in... Read More » |
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