Senate Changes Rules, Curbs Power to Filibuster

Headlines • Senate Changes Rules, Curbs Power to Filibuster • Bickering Between Plaintiffs, Objectors to BP Settlement • Pioneering Boston Judge to Take Senior Status • Jury Awards Apple $290 Million in Damages Retrial • Who Won in the Toyota MDL Settlement? • NLRB Digging Deeper Into Corporate Labor Practices • In-House Counsel Profile: Reinsurance Group of America Inc.'s William L. Hutton • N.C. Litigators Weigh In on Edwards' Career Prospects • Former Virginia U.S. Attorney Joins Davis Polk • Lobbying Group Officially Drops 'Lobbyists' From Name Senate Changes Rules, Curbs Power to Filibuster The Senate voted on Thursday to strip the minority party of its power to block presidential nominations, a major shift that streamlines the confirmation process for President Obama's judicial and agency picks. Read More » Bickering Between Plaintiffs, Objectors to BP Settlement Plaintiffs lawyers who obtained two settlements with BP PLC over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have accused prominent attorneys Ted Frank and Darrell Palmer of filing appeals on behalf of objectors who aren't legitimate class members. Read More » Pioneering Boston Judge to Take Senior Status U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel, who spent her first 15 years on the bench as the only female judge in Boston, has informed President Obama that she plans to retire on April 1 and take senior status. Read More » Jury Awards Apple $290 Million in Damages Retrial The verdict brings Apple's total award to $930 million in its patent showdown with Samsung. Read More » Who Won in the Toyota MDL Settlement? Toyota paid more than $1 billion to settle the economic damages MDL on sudden acceleration. So why do some observers say the company won? Read More » NLRB Digging Deeper Into Corporate Labor Practices The National Labor Relations Board is using its staff, now at full capacity, to investigate complaints of unfair labor practices against some very big companies. Read More » In-House Counsel Profile: Reinsurance Group of America Inc.'s William L. Hutton From just two lawyers in 2001, RGA's legal team has grown to 27 attorneys in 10 offices across the globe, and is led by William Hutton. Read More » N.C. Litigators Weigh In on Edwards' Career Prospects North Carolina lawyers who remember John Edwards' heyday as a star of the plaintiffs' bar say they'll be watching his adjustment to private practice following a 15-year hiatus. 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 » 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 »

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