NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • SEC Names New Head of Municipal Securities Unit • VA Discriminates in Vet Claims for Sexual Assault Trauma • Dean: Allegations 'Immaterial, Impertinent and Scandalous' • Robert Bork Honored at George Mason Law • AOL Dials Up a New Chief Lobbyist • Seventh Circuit Revives Suit Over Out-of-Network Claim • D.C. Judges Seeking Second Terms • Harvard Law Leads in Alumni in Corporate Leadership The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has named LeeAnn Ghazil Gaunt chief of the Enforcement Division's Municipal Securities and Public Pensions Unit. A 13-year agency veteran, Gaunt supervised the SEC first pay-to-play enforcement action for "in-kind" political campaign contributions, charging... Read More » As some members of Congress focus efforts on ending the spiraling incidence of sexual assaults within the military, a new report reveals that the Department of Veterans Affairs grants disability claims for military sexual assault trauma related to Post Traumatic... Read More » Case Western Reserve University School of Law Dean Lawrence Mitchell, who took a leave of absence on Wednesday in light of a retaliation suit filed by a faculty member, has come out swinging against his accuser in court documents. Read More » The late Robert Bork, a U.S. Supreme Court nominee who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, was among the honorees today at a law and economics symposium at George Mason University School... Read More » AOL Inc. has dialed up Leigh Freund, a veteran lawyer at the Internet and media company, to serve as its chief lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Freund, who started at AOL in 2004, has agreed to serve as the company's head... Read More » An appeals court has revived a case testing whether a health insurer breached its fiduciary duty by telling the husband of a policyholder that she should "go ahead" with brain surgery it later declined to pay for because the doctor was out of network. Read More » Three District of Columbia judges, including Chief Judge Eric Washington of the D.C. Court of Appeals, are seeking a second, 15-year term on the bench. Washington, along with Judge Stephen Glickman of the appeals court and D.C. Superior Court Judge... Read More » Pepperdine Law associate professor Robert Anderson used the U.S. SEC filings of publicly traded companies to determine which 25 law schools have the highest percentage of alumni serving as corporate directors or executive officers. Read More » | 
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