Senate Changes Rules, Curbs Power to Filibuster

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Senate Changes Rules, Curbs Power to Filibuster • Former Virginia U.S. Attorney Joins Davis Polk • Boston Lawyer Named New Supreme Court Legal Counsel • Lawyer Convicted in Insider Trading Scheme Disbarred • Lobbying Group Officially Drops 'Lobbyists' From Name • Jury Sides With Ropes & Gray in Retaliation Lawsuit Senate Changes Rules, Curbs Power to Filibuster The Senate today invoked the so-called "nuclear option" and stripped the ability of the minority party to block presidential nominations—a move that will smooth the path to confirmation for President Obama's judicial picks. The 52-48 historic vote overturned a Senate... Read More » Former Virginia U.S. Attorney Joins Davis Polk 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 » Boston Lawyer Named New Supreme Court Legal Counsel Ethan Torrey, a partner at the Boston law firm Choate Hall & Stewart, will be the next legal counsel of the Supreme Court. The court announced on Wednesday that he will assume the post on January 6, 2014. Torrey will... Read More » Lawyer Convicted in Insider Trading Scheme Disbarred Matthew Kluger, a former law firm associate convicted in a 17-year, multimillion-dollar insider trading scheme, was disbarred today in the District of Columbia. Kluger is serving 12 years in jail after pleading guilty to passing along nonpublic information about business... Read More » Lobbying Group Officially Drops 'Lobbyists' From Name The Association of Government Relations Professionals had its coming-out party at a Washington, D.C., hotel Thursday, two days after the lobbying trade group announced it had officially dropped its original name, the American League of Lobbyists. Before dozens of lobbyists... Read More » Jury Sides With Ropes & Gray in Retaliation Lawsuit A Boston federal jury took just 2 1/2 hours on Wednesday to reject former associate John Ray III's employment retaliation case against Ropes & Gray, which he'd accused of lashing out after he complained of racial discrimination. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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