Consecutive Life Sentences for Boston Mobster Bulger

Headlines • Consecutive Life Sentences for Boston Mobster Bulger • Allies Join Actress' Bid to Revive Suit Over Age Disclosure • Northwestern's New Masters Program Targets Non-Lawyers • Patton Boggs Confirms Merger Talks With Locke Lord • Orrin Hatch: Power Grab In Judicial Nominations • The Abortion Docket • Trial Opens in Retaliation Claim Against Ropes & Gray • Redemption is Possible for Disgraced Journalist Seeking To Practice Law • Deja Vu at Jones Day: Firm Hires Six More Supreme Court Clerks • Cruz Attacks DOJ Advocacy at Federalist Society Meeting Consecutive Life Sentences for Boston Mobster Bulger A Boston federal judge on Thursday handed down two consecutive life sentences plus five years for convicted mobster James "Whitey" Bulger and ordered him to pay $19.5 million in restitution. Read More » Allies Join Actress' Bid to Revive Suit Over Age Disclosure An actress who sued IMBb.com for publishing her real age has appealed a verdict against her, and the entertainment industry's most powerful unions back her claims. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: DePaul 2014 Clifford Symposium The 20th annual Clifford Symposium will explore Judge Jack Weinstein's impact on a range of topics in civil justice, from torts and the law of evidence, to broader notions about what it means to be a judge and to seek justice in America's courts. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will deliver a special address. April 24-25 at DePaul University, Chicago. law.depaul.edu/clifford2014 Northwestern's New Masters Program Targets Non-Lawyers The wave of new masters in law programs for non-lawyers isn't slowing down. Northwestern University School of Law is the latest to launch a year-long program intended to give professionals a grounding in law without qualifying them to practice. Read More » Patton Boggs Confirms Merger Talks With Locke Lord Patton Boggs managing partner Edward Newberry told The Am Law Daily on Thursday that his firm's merger talks with Locke Lord and its latest round of layoffs are part of a broader plan that also includes changes to its long-standing "eat what you kill" compensation system and a push to expand in California, New York, Texas and abroad. Read More » Orrin Hatch: Power Grab In Judicial Nominations Numbers don't justify more judicial appointments, so why is Obama pushing? Politics, of course. Read More » The Abortion Docket In the past two years, anti-abortion groups have seeded state laws with abortion restrictions. Challengers to court rulings for and against those laws now are knocking on the doors of the U.S. Supreme Court. Read More » Trial Opens in Retaliation Claim Against Ropes & Gray Former Ropes & Gray associate John Ray III's lawyer characterized him as "a man in a hurry" to fit into Ropes' white-shoe world as trial got underway Tuesday on Ray's claims that the firm lashed out at him for filing a discrimination claim. Read More » Redemption is Possible for Disgraced Journalist Seeking To Practice Law If Stephen Glass is admitted, his character as a lawyer will be continually tested. Read More » Deja Vu at Jones Day: Firm Hires Six More Supreme Court Clerks 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 » Cruz Attacks DOJ Advocacy at Federalist Society Meeting In a speech today at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) attacked the Obama administration's record before the U.S. Supreme Court, characterizing the Justice Department's positions as "radical advocacy for unchecked federal authority." Since the beginning... Read More »

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