Headlines • Justices to Review Contraception Coverage in Health Care Law • Fee Request Struck in Barbri Class Action Settlement • Penn State Law to Cut Tuition for In-State Residents • Grilling Begins in Ecuador Case • Lateral's Book of Business Isn't the Whole Story • The Wages of Sin: Lawyers in Trouble • VOIR DIRE: Slip and Fall • Why Young People Are Rejecting Law School • Former Virginia U.S. Attorney Joins Davis Polk • Cigar Industry Fires Up DC Lobbying Effort The U.S. Supreme Court set the stage for its second major look at the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, agreeing to review the requirement that most employers provide health insurance coverage for contraception, including so-called "morning after" methods. Read More » A federal judge has struck down an attorney's request for legal fees in a $9.5 million class action settlement resolving antitrust claims against the publisher of the Barbri bar exam review course. Read More » The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law has announced a new program—the Commonwealth Scholars—that will cut annual tuition by $20,000 for Pennsylvanians, reducing the total cost of a juris doctor by $60,000. Read More » John Keker of Keker & Van Nest once predicted that Steven Donziger would be "tethered to a stick like a goat" when he finally took the stand to face claims that he orchestrated a multibillion-dollar fraud against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador. In a New York federal courtroom last week, Chevron began its grilling. Read More » Clients that a new partner might bring along are critical, but firms need to dig deeper to get the right fit. Read More » Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards emerged from a very public sex scandal with his reputation tarnished, but his law license intact. Other lawyers embroiled in some of the biggest scandals to hit the legal world over the past decade haven't fared as well. Some went to jail, some were disbarred and all had to face the court of public opinion. Read More » Developments came fast and furious in the Rick Springfield injury suit, ending in a mistrial — for now. Plus: lizard monitors, overstressed, and a rose for JFK in this week's column. Read More » A sluggish job market is just one of the reasons for the decrease in the number of applicants. Read More » Neil MacBride, the former U.S. attorney for Eastern District of Virginia, is joining Davis Polk & Wardwell's Washington office as a partner, the firm said today. After four years overseeing high-profile investigations and prosecutions of government leakers, terrorists and corrupt... Read More » More than a dozen small businesses in the cigar industry have come together to stub out proposed tobacco regulations and taxes in Washington, D.C. The Small Business Cigar Coalition, an informal association of 15 makers of cigars and related products,... Read More » | 
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