ABA Reconsiders Practical Skills Mandate for Law Schools

Headlines • ABA Reconsiders Practical Skills Mandate for Law Schools • Award in Florida Business Extortion Case Tops $1 Billion • Senate Appears Ready to Confirm D.C. Circuit Nominee • Amphastar Hit for Discovery Violations in Patent Dispute • Settling Copyright Case, File Storage Site to Pay $80M • INADMISSIBLE: D.C. Superior Court Judge Gets Rebuked • Tougher Cybersecurity Standards Forecast • In-House Counsel Profile: INTL FCStone's Rene Friedman • Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? • Winston & Strawn Sues Mississippi Law Firm for Fees ABA Reconsiders Practical Skills Mandate for Law Schools The ABA's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar tentatively endorsed a plan in August to require six credits of real-world training. Now the council has backtracked somewhat. Read More » Award in Florida Business Extortion Case Tops $1 Billion The verdict, awarded on Dec. 2 in Miami-Dade County, Fla., Circuit Court, came in a case against California real estate developer Nicolas Marsch III and his company, Briarwood Capital LLC. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Law Librarian M.S.: St. John's Flexible, affordable, St. John's University's M.S. and Advanced Certificate programs in Library and Information Science combine top faculty with the resources of New York's best law libraries. Students receive well-equipped laptops. Contact Jeffery Olson, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Provost and Director of Library and Information Science: (718) 990-6200; dlis@stjohns.edu. Visit www.stjohns.edu/lawlibrarian Senate Appears Ready to Confirm D.C. Circuit Nominee The Senate is poised on Tuesday to confirm Patricia Millett to a key federal appeals court in Washington, making her the first nominee approved under a new streamlined procedure that could deliver a pre-holiday rush of judges to the bench. Read More » Amphastar Hit for Discovery Violations in Patent Dispute A Boston federal magistrate judge has ruled that Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc. must pay opponent Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s legal fees in a dispute over Amphastar's failure to produce court-ordered documents. Read More » Settling Copyright Case, File Storage Site to Pay $80M The motion picture industry is touting the $80 million judgment that shut down the popular file-hosting site Hotfile Corp. as the first in which a U.S. court has ruled on whether a so-called "cyberlocker" can be liable for copyright infringement. Read More » INADMISSIBLE: D.C. Superior Court Judge Gets Rebuked District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Natalia Combs Greene received a rare public rebuke last month from a judicial review commission about her temperament. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » Tougher Cybersecurity Standards Forecast Increased demand for better cybersecurity standards from government agencies and from consumers will force companies in 2014 to take more decisive actions to protect against the legal, financial and public image risks. Read More » In-House Counsel Profile: INTL FCStone's Rene Friedman INTL FCStone Inc., based in New York, is a financial services company handling commodities, capital markets, currencies and asset management. Rene Friedman heads up its team of 13 attorneys. Read More » Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? Guest blogger Robin Sparkman argues that it's time to take a broader definition of diversity in hiring associates. Read More » Winston & Strawn Sues Mississippi Law Firm for Fees Winston & Strawn is suing a former client, a Mississippi law firm, for alleged unpaid fees and expenses of more than $200,000. In the lawsuit filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Winston & Strawn... Read More »

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