Headlines • FTC Seeks New Privacy Authority • Program Designed to Place Grads in Southern Public Defender Offices • Justices Could Ground Frequent Flyer's Suit • Appeals Court Hears Arguments in GPS Tracking Cases • Lawyers Fight Over Counsel Access at Guantánamo Bay • D.C. Avoids Arbitration in $117 Million Lawsuit Against Bank of America • Lawyers, Not Another Commission, for the Poor • Oklahoma Law School Creates Native American Endowed Chair • Law Students, Grads Head In-House • Digital Library Aids Lawyers in NLRB Case The Federal Trade Commission is about to turn 100, and agency leaders have some gift suggestions for Congress—new privacy legislation plus a statutory change that would position the FTC as the net neutrality cop. Read More » Gideon’s Promise—an Atlanta-based non-profit that trains and advocates for public defenders throughout the South—has launched its Law School Partnership Project, a new initiative aiming to make it easier for law graduates to become public defenders in the South. 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 | Frequent flyers may experience the occasional bump from a full flight, but what do they do if they get bumped out of their frequent-flyer program? Well, they end up in the U.S. Supreme Court, of course! Read More » A federal appeals court on Tuesday heard two cases about warrantless tracking, a procedure fraught with uncertainty in the wake of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held such GPS uses are Fourth Amendment searches. 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 » The District of Columbia can move forward with a $117 million lawsuit against Bank of America N.A. in connection with an embezzlement scheme carried out by a former city employee, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled last week. Harriette Walters,... Read More » The shortage of indigent representation is widely recognized. Now it's time to solve the problem. Read More » More than 20 law schools offer centers or programs focused on Indian Law, but the University of Oklahoma College of Law is poised to become the first with an endowed chair specifically for Native American law. 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 » 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 » | 
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