Headlines • LSAT Numbers Decline for Fourth Straight Year • Plaintiffs Seek to Revive Claims Against Darvon, Generics • Eighth Circuit Stays Out of Judicial Discipline Case • Second Circuit Removes Judge From Stop and Frisk Case • Who Represents Corporate America • Class of '13 Greets its Future • Low-Tier Cases On Gun Docket • INADMISSIBLE: Legal Fee Fight is Next Act in Circus Suit • Booz Allen Settles Gender Discrimination Lawsuit • With Sixth Payout, SEC Whistleblower Program Gains Steam The number of people who took the LSAT in October—traditionally the biggest cohort annually—dropped by 11 percent since last year, marking the fourth year of steady decline and intensifying worries that a turnaround remains out of sight. Read More » Lawyers blaming heart abnormalities on the painkillers Darvon and Darvocet and their generic equivalents are trying to jumpstart their cases on appeal after a federal judge dismissed the vast majority of the actions. Read More » A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an Arkansas judge's complaint that a judicial discipline body targeted him for removal because of his race, ruling that the federal courts had no business interfering with the state judicial matter. Read More » The Second Circuit said Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin had given the "appearance of partiality" in her handling of 'Floyd v. City of New York,' and it stayed pending appeal Scheindlin's appointment of a monitor to reform NYPD stop-and-frisk policies and practices she had held unconstitutional. Read More » Our annual survey of the law firms that work for the nation's largest companies takes a global focus. Read More » The incoming class of 2010 graduated in May, took the bar in July, and now are launching their legal careers. We recently caught up with three of them to see what they are doing now, how they feel about their law school experience and what advice they have for those following in their footsteps. Read More » Guns are back before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, but the cases at hand don't target any of gun advocates' most wanted issues. Read More » Norton Rose Fulbright's hourly rates are the latest sideshow to litigation over how Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus treats its elephants. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » On the eve of trial, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has settled with a former partner who accused the consulting firm of gender discrimination. The trial was scheduled to start today in District of Columbia Superior Court. On Oct. 23, Booz... Read More » The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued its sixth whistleblower payment, awarding a tipster $150,000 for helping to stop a scheme that was defrauding investors. The Oct. 30 payment comes one month after the SEC awarded a record $14... Read More » | 
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