Headlines • Report: Former Bush Lawyer Harbored Anti-Gay Animus • Support for Death Penalty Slipping, Organization Finds • NSA Review Panel Recommends Surveillance Court Reforms • Lawsuit: Retailer Wrecked Couple's Credit Over Bad Review • Circuit Tosses Attorney Fees Award in Prius Litigation • Northwestern, William Mitchell College Snag Large Gifts • BP Sues Plaintiffs Lawyer in Gulf Spill Case • Decline in Female Associates Called a 'Red Flag' • Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again • Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? Driven by an animus against homosexuals, Scott Bloch, a former head of the Office of Special Counsel in the George W. Bush administration, improperly reassigned a group of Washington employees to Detroit, according to a government report released Wednesday. Bloch,... Read More » In 2013, public support for the death penalty inched down; executions decreased and the number of death penalty states declined, according to an annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center. 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 chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court should not hold the sole authority to appoint judges to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, an Obama administration review group said today in a lengthy report that offers reforms to better protect... Read More » As the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, Public Citizen is hauling an online retailer into Utah federal court over some allegedly Grinch-like behavior. Read More » The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has again struck down an award of attorney fees in a class action settlement, this time over allegedly defective headlights in Toyota Prius vehicles. Read More » Northwestern University School of Law received a $15 million gift from alumnus Neil Bluhm and the Bluhm Family Charitable Foundation—the largest single gift in its history. Meanwhile, alumnus Louis Ainsworth has pledged $1 million to his alma mater, the William Mitchell College of Law, to endow a chair in law and business. Read More » BP alleges that Mikal Watts and his Texas law firm engaged in "brazen fraud" by claiming to represent more than 40,000 deckhands who allegedly suffered economic injuries due to the company's massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Read More » The percentage of women associates at law firms fell for the fourth straight year, even as the percentage of minority associates continued to rise, according to the latest figures from the National Association for Law Placement. Read More » NALP's latest report shows a stubborn decline for women in the legal profession. Read More » Guest blogger Robin Sparkman argues that it's time to take a broader definition of diversity in hiring associates. Read More » | 
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