Headlines • The Law Trails Other Professions in Ethnic Diversity • Challenges to New Volcker Rule a 'Virtual Certainty' • Justices Warm to EPA Air Pollution Standards • Ninth Circuit Revives Suit Over Painting Looted by Nazis • Hearst Appeals Ruling in Favor of Internet Competitor • Senate Prepares to Vote on Second D.C. Circuit Nominee • Rutgers-Camden Law School Fined for Waiving LSAT • Jailed U.S. Contractor in Cuba Presses White House to Intervene • Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? • Winston & Strawn Sues Mississippi Law Firm for Fees Between 2003 and 2012, the percentage of African American and Hispanic attorneys inched up by a mere 0.8 percent, and they now account for just 8.4 percent of attorneys in the country, according to a study commissioned by Microsoft Corp. Read More » Given the Volcker Rule's scope and magnitude, lawyers warn that legal challenges are practically inevitable. Regulators released the massive rule—which weighs in at 71 pages, plus another 882 pages of supporting documentation—on Tuesday. 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 U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a key Clean Air Act case on Tuesday, with justices displaying mixed feelings about the balance of power between the Environmental Protection Agency and the states in regulating air pollution that drifts across state lines. Read More » A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit by the descendants of a woman whose painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro was allegedly looted as she fled Nazi Germany. Read More » A Hearst Corp. subsidiary's challenge to a Boston federal judge's refusal to slap an injunction on Aereo Inc. continues a copyright war between broadcasters and the Internet television distributor. Read More » The Senate could vote as early as Wednesday on the confirmation of Georgetown law professor Cornelia "Nina" Pillard for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) this evening began... Read More » The American Bar Association has censured and fined Rutgers School of Law-Camden $25,000 for admitting students who had not taken the Law School Admission Test. 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 » 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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