Scholarship Pays $1,000 To Give Law School a Pass

Headlines • Scholarship Pays $1,000 To Give Law School a Pass • Discovery Rules Changes Greeted With Skepticism in Senate • Supreme Court Warned Against Treading on Treaty Power • Federal Panel Considers Coordinating Air Crash Litigation • Tsarnaev's Attorneys Chafe at Limits on Access to Client • Ifill: Discrimination Through the Judge's Lens • Mexico Moves to Woo Foreign Energy Investors • Giant Louisiana Sinkhole Serves As Cautionary Tale • Wiley Rein Seeks $2M in Fees in Voting Rights Case • Federal Employees Sue for Damages Over Shutdown Scholarship Pays $1,000 To Give Law School a Pass Matt Willens of the Willens Law Offices talks to NLJ about his "Anything But Law School" scholarship, which offers $1,000 to a college graduate who goes on to graduate school, but avoids law school. Read More » Discovery Rules Changes Greeted With Skepticism in Senate A controversy over the federal civil discovery process reached Capitol Hill on Tuesday, when senators and litigation experts warned that rules changes intended to reduce legal costs would instead harm plaintiffs in discrimination cases. Read More » Supreme Court Warned Against Treading on Treaty Power U.S. Supreme Court arguments over the constitutional power to make and implement treaties took a dramatic turn Tuesday when Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. warned justices that a ruling interpreting the meaning of a chemical weapons treaty would be "terribly unfortunate" and could disrupt "very sensitive negotiations" underway with Syria and other nations. Read More » Federal Panel Considers Coordinating Air Crash Litigation A federal panel will hear arguments next month over whether lawsuits filed in the summer's Asiana Airlines Inc. crash should be coordinated in multidistrict litigation in San Francisco. Read More » Tsarnaev's Attorneys Chafe at Limits on Access to Client Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev complained in court filings that jailhouse rules that initially stopped a lawyer from showing him family photographs related to his defense are unconstitutional. Read More » Ifill: Discrimination Through the Judge's Lens Posner's admirably candid admission should serve as a reminder to judges that self-awareness about their own limitations is part of judging, too. Read More » Mexico Moves to Woo Foreign Energy Investors President Enrique Peña Nieto is pushing for legislation to ease licensing and permits for private investment. Read More » Giant Louisiana Sinkhole Serves As Cautionary Tale State lawmakers have scrambled to address the dangers in mineral solution-mining operations. Read More » Wiley Rein Seeks $2M in Fees in Voting Rights Case The lawyers who successfully challenged the Voting Rights Act before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year are seeking $2 million in legal fees from the federal government. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers and attorneys from Wiley Rein, who represented... Read More » Federal Employees Sue for Damages Over Shutdown A group of federal employees who worked without pay during the partial government shutdown last month are suing over alleged damages, claiming violations of federal labor law. The lawsuit accuses the government of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act by... Read More »

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