Headlines • High Court Leaves New York's Online Sales Tax Law in Place • Project Aims To Attract, Train Public Defenders • DePuy Hip Implant Deal Excludes Thousands • Jailed U.S. Contractor in Cuba Presses White House to Intervene • Law Firm Fights Subpoena • Chemerinsky: God, Birth Control and Corporate America • A Calculation of Fido's Value Must Include Warm, Fuzzy Factor • Retaliation Suits Put Firms Up Against the 'Ropes' • Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? • Winston & Strawn Sues Mississippi Law Firm for Fees Dec. 2 was an extraordinary day for Amazon.com: Cyber Monday sales reached new heights, its fanciful plan to use drones to make deliveries was creating buzz — and then the U.S. Supreme Court spoiled it all by turning down Amazon's challenge to online sales taxes. Read More » Atlanta-based nonprofit Gideon's Promise has launched a new program called the Law School Partnership Project, aimed at making it easier for Southern public defenders to hire talented new law graduates. 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 | Just weeks after DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. announced a $2.5 billion settlement to resolve the bulk of the litigation over its recalled hip implants, some lawyers have raised concerns about the thousands of patients excluded from the deal and the process that determines how the plaintiffs will be compensated. Read More » For the past four years, U.S. Agency for International Development contractor Alan Gross has wasted away in a Cuban prison, serving a 15-year sentence for providing Internet access to the island's small Jewish community. He's counting on lawyer Scott Gilbert to win his freedom and bring him home to Washington. Read More » Two whistleblowers involved in the $3 billion health care fraud case against GlaxoSmithKline want Phillips & Cohen to share information on its work in the litigation. The boutique firm is fighting — again — to stay out of the fray. Read More » Can a corporation claim to have religious beliefs and, if so, does it violate those beliefs to force the business to include contraceptive coverage in the health insurance it provides its employees? The U.S. Supreme Court has just granted review in two cases on the issue. Read More » Awarding traditional property damages in cases of injured or killed pets falls short. Read More » A second critical maxim of employment law litigation is illustrated by the Ropes & Gray lawsuit: Do not speak ill of the departed. Read More » Guest blogger Robin Sparkman argues that it's time to take a broader definition of diversity in hiring associates. Read More » 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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