Headlines • For Feds, Boston Cases Pose Death Penalty Question • Law Students, Grads Head In-House • Digital Library Aids Lawyers in NLRB Case • Lawyers Fight Over Counsel Access at Guantánamo Bay • Dueling Bills Take Aim At 'Patent Trolls' • Lawyers, Not Another Commission, for the Poor • Solution to Rampant Gerrymandering Resides Within the States • INADMISSIBLE: Ten Months Later—No PTO Chief In Sight • Former Virginia U.S. Attorney Joins Davis Polk • Sinclair Hires FCC Adviser to Lead New D.C. Office Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts, where the death penalty was abolished nearly 30 years ago, face the rare prospect of two simultaneous capital cases for unrelated killings that happened more than a decade apart. Read More » A handful of efforts recently launched by law schools and bar associations provide recent graduates with practical experience in corporate law departments and perhaps lead to permanent jobs, challenging a prevalent notion that new lawyers don't belong in-house. 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 | The upcoming U.S. Supreme Court argument over the president's power to make recess appointments has sent lawyers and researchers hunting through centuries-old documents for historical evidence to prove just how broad or narrow the power is. Read More » Lawyers for detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, say a new search policy adopted earlier this year put their clients in an impossible situation: submit to religiously and culturally offensive groin-area frisks, or forgo meeting with attorneys. Read More » In the battle against "patent trolls," two competing bills on Capitol Hill have emerged as the leading solutions to curb abusive patent litigation. Read More » The shortage of indigent representation is widely recognized. Now it's time to solve the problem. Read More » Constitution offers way to eliminate extremism created by politically carved districts. Read More » It's hard to find a hotter topic than patent reform right now on Capitol Hill. It's even harder to find what the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has to say about it. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » 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 » Broadcasting behemoth Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. has snagged a Federal Communications Commission aide to serve as its chief lobbyist in Washington. Rebecca Hanson, who focused on broadcast spectrum issues at the FCC Media Bureau, will join Sinclair on Jan. 2... Read More » | 
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