Headlines • Lead Paint Attorney's Goal: 'Help Us Fix the Problem' • Google Takes Aim at Rockstar in Patent Feud • A Look Inside the $100 Million Tainted-Drug Settlement • This Law School Administrator Is the Marrying Kind • Compounding Pharmacy Owners Reach $100M Settlement • Utah's Same-Sex Marriage Ban in Tenth Circuit's Hands • Hamline Looked In-House For New Law Dean • Prison Reform, Civil Liberties on List of Top DOJ Challenges • Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again • Wiley Rein Defends Fee Request in Voting Rights Case Fidelma Fitzpatrick was co-lead trial counsel for a group of California municipalities that won a ruling ordering three companies to pay $1.1 billion to clean up lead paint in older homes. Read More » In the latest skirmish between Google and Apple, Google has asked for a declaratory judgment that it doesn't infringe smartphone patents held by Rockstar Consortium, an entity formed by Apple and other competitors. Read More » A year into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, New England Compounding Center agreed to a $100 million settlement for victims of its tainted steroids. Brown Rudnick's David Molton, who represents the creditors committee, discusses the deal and what's next. Read More » Jayne Kacer, associate dean for student affairs at the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law, has performed four wedding ceremonies for students and alumni in recent years, and expects to handle plenty more in the future as word spreads that she has experience at the altar. Read More » The owners of the New England Compounding Center and their insurers have reached an agreement to pay more than $100 million to a fund for victims and other creditors of the pharmacy, which formulated tainted products that have been linked to 64 deaths and the illnesses of at least 700 other people. Read More » A federal judge's refusal to stay a ruling that allowed same-sex marriages in Utah has set off a skirmish before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Read More » Hamline University School of Law has tapped CR Bard Inc. general counsel Jean Holloway as its first female dean. Read More » Prison reform, the protection of civil liberties and the fight against fraud are among the top management challenges that face the U.S. Department of Justice in the new year, according to the department's inspector general. Read More » NALP's latest report shows a stubborn decline for women in the legal profession. Read More » Wiley Rein is defending its request for $2 million in legal fees from the federal government after winning a constitutional challenge to the federal Voting Rights Act. The U.S. Department of Justice has opposed the fee request, arguing Wiley Rein's... Read More » | 
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