Headlines • Massachusetts' AG Scores Another Subprime Settlement • Chicago Law Schools Join Public Defender Project • Prelate Ordered Released on Bail Pending Appeal • Ex-Ropes Associate Set to Appeal Retaliation Suit Loss • Shutdowns and Showdowns • Landmark Rulings in Civil Rights Cases Define Court • You Can Say That Again • Listen Up: Federal Judges Have a Few Things to Say • Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again • Obama Trails Bush in Shaping Federal Judiciary Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has reached a $17.3 million settlement with Countrywide Securities Corp. over the company's residential mortgage securitization practices. Read More » Two of Chicago’s premier law schools announced this month that they are joining forces with Gideon’s Promise—an Atlanta nonprofit that trains and advocates for public defenders throughout the South—to pay for graduates to work on indigent legal defense for up to a year. Read More » A Philadelphia trial judge on Monday set bail for Monsignor William J. Lynn at $250,000, pending the state's appeal of the Superior Court's reversal of his conviction for endangering the welfare of a child. Read More » John Ray III, who sued Ropes & Gray for discrimination and retaliation after being asked to leave the firm in 2008, continues to press his case against Ropes even after seeing a judge toss several of his claims and hearing a jury reject the rest of them last month. Read More » 2013 was the year that made the legal, judicial and political scenarios in "The Good Wife," "Homeland" or "House of Cards" look, well, plausible. Read More » The U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 confronted the Voting Rights Act, state and federal same-sex marriage issues and affirmative action. Read More » Our review of some of the more remarkable comments uttered by newsmakers during the year. Read More » Federal trial and appellate judges, typically quiet when they're off the bench, sound off about budget woes, filibusters and surveillance. Read More » NALP's latest report shows a stubborn decline for women in the legal profession. Read More » President Barack Obama lags behind George W. Bush when it comes to leaving his imprint on the nation's federal courts of appeals, a Brookings Institution report has found. Last year brought heightened contentiousness to the circuit confirmation process—particularly involving Obama's... Read More » |