D.C. Circuit Weighs Ex-Congressional Aide's Corruption Fight

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • D.C. Circuit Weighs Ex-Congressional Aide's Corruption Fight • Justices Deny Review in Oklahoma Ultrasound Abortion Law • Senate Judiciary's Chief IP Counsel to Join Covington • Timothy Massad Selected to Lead CFTC • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Gets in the Lobbying Game • Consumer Groups Press Court to Open Sealed Case Records D.C. Circuit Weighs Ex-Congressional Aide's Corruption Fight A lawyer for a former congressional staffer convicted on corruption charges in the Jack Abramoff scandal tried today to convince the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn the verdict. Fraser Verrusio, former policy director for the... Read More » Justices Deny Review in Oklahoma Ultrasound Abortion Law For the second time in little over a week, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review Oklahoma's defense of an anti-abortion law struck down by that state's highest court. The justices denied review in Pruitt v. Nova Health Systems,... Read More » Senate Judiciary's Chief IP Counsel to Join Covington Aaron Cooper, a senior aide to the Senate Judiciary Committee's Democrats, has left Capitol Hill for Covington & Burling, bolstering a burgeoning intellectual property niche in the firm's lobbying group. Cooper, the Senate panel's chief counsel for IP and antitrust... Read More » Timothy Massad Selected to Lead CFTC President Obama has selected former Cravath, Swaine & Moore partner Timothy Massad to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a White House official said. Massad currently serves as assistant secretary for financial stability at the Department of the Treasury, where... Read More » Otsuka Pharmaceutical Gets in the Lobbying Game With an eye on raising its profile among U.S. policymakers, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., the maker of the antipsychotic drug Abilify, has entered the world of Washington, D.C., lobbying. The Japanese drugmaker has deployed Molly Ryan and Richard Thompson from... Read More » Consumer Groups Press Court to Open Sealed Case Records The case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit tests the scope of the authority of judges to close courtrooms and to conceal documents from the public. Read More »

Careers Position title EMPLOYER NAME LOCATION Mid- to Senior Level Corporate Associate Attorney Kinney Recruiting, Inc. Houston, Texas Real Estate Associate Michael Lord & Company New York, New York Corporate Attorney - Hedge Fund Group Laurence Simons International Chicago, Illinois POWERED BY lawjobs.com

Email Management Area Please do not reply to the address you received this email from. Manage your email communications below. Why you received this email message: You are subscribed to the NLJ Legal Times Afternoon Update as reg.thakur@gmail.com. You may be subscribed to multiple publications as part of your relationship with us. To stop receiving this publication (unsubscribe): To stop receiving the NLJ Legal Times Afternoon Update please click here.You will be taken through an unsubscribe process. Please follow all directions regarding this process. It may take 10-days to remove you from receiving this publication. Note: If you are subscribed to multiple publications, per your subscription, you will need to unsubscribe from each publication you receive utilizing the email management area at the bottom of each publication. To not receive or opt-out of email marketing promotions from the The National Law Journal®: Please click here to opt-out of receiving email marketing promotions from the The National Law Journal®. This will only prevent you from receiving email marketing promotions from the The National Law Journal®; you will continue receiving the publications as noted above unless you unsubscribe from each one. It may take up to 10-days to remove you from receiving email marketing promotions. How to contact us should you have questions: The National Law Journal® 120 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10271-1101 Customer Service Phone: 1-877-256-2472

About ALM | Customer Support | Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions    © 2013 ALM Media Properties, LLC. All rights reserved.