Headlines • Objectors to BP Deal Bail on Appeal—and Their Lawyers • Patent Office Missing in Reform Debate • Appeals Court: DNA Unlawfully Obtained, But No Suppression • Williams & Connolly Defeats Disqualification Attempt • Brent Snyder to Lead DOJ Antitrust Criminal Enforcement • Typically Quiet, Justices Open Up About Denials • INADMISSIBLE: Brush Up on the Solicitor General's Style • States Provide Model for Handling Controversial Class Action Awards • Former Virginia U.S. Attorney Joins Davis Polk • Iran Not Open to U.S. Businesses Under Nuclear Deal Three objectors to the $9.6 billion Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement have voluntarily withdrawn their appeal—weeks after plaintiffs lawyers moved to dismiss the challenge on the ground that the objectors weren’t actually class members. Read More » One key voice is missing from the debate on Capitol Hill on major reforms to the patent system—the head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. That’s because there hasn’t been a director for more than 10 months—and patent attorneys are highlighting the void. Read More » The government lawfully used a defendant's DNA in a criminal prosecution even though its collection during the investigation of an unrelated crime violated the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled. Read More » Williams & Connolly can continue to represent the son of one of the firm's partners in a business dispute in court, a Washington federal judge has ruled. Brendan Sullivan III, the son of Williams & Connolly partner Brendan Sullivan Jr.,... Read More » Brent Snyder was named Monday a top prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division, where he will oversee criminal enforcement efforts, the department announced. Snyder, who spent a decade a trial attorney in the antitrust division, was named... Read More » U.S. Supreme Court justices have made it dramatically clear this month that they don't only speak through formal decisions, instead using a range of other vehicles to influence the court's agenda and telegraph their views to lower court judges, practitioners and to each other. Read More » The office of the U.S. solicitor general sometimes takes controversial positions, but most practitioners agree that the quality of its legal briefs is high. Some of the office's style secrets are now available for lawyers to emulate — or, in some instances, avoid. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » State and federal courts have diverged in their treatment of cy pres awards. Many of the challenges that federal courts face in this area could be avoided with a rule-based system similar to those implemented in a number of leading states. 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 » Despite loosened trade sanctions against Iran following a historic nuclear deal with the country, U.S. companies will have few, if any, opportunities to cash in, according to international trade lawyers. The six-month agreement the United States and other world powers... Read More » | 
No comments:
Post a Comment