Headlines • BP Takes Bid to Rewrite Settlement to Full Fifth Circuit • New York Law School Helps Found Charter School • Court Struggles With Restitution for Child Porn Victim • Lawyer Threatened With Jail Over $50,000 in Unpaid Sanctions • Seattle In-House Legal Departments of the Year • Politics on the Bench — a Judge's View of Partisanship at Play • FTC Lacks Muscle in Fighting Diet Scams • Google, Apple Climb Patentholder Ranks • New Chairman at Steptoe Eyes the Future • BP Snipes Away at Oil Spill Settlement BP PLC has petitioned an en banc panel of a federal appeals court to rehear a three-judge panel's recent decision upholding the fairness of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement. Read More » For years, New York Law School professor Richard Marsico has taken his students into public schools in the South Bronx to teach middle school kids about the law. It's been such a hit that he's decided to take the initiative full time, in the form of a charter high school. Read More » Three lawyers offered the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday three "stark choices" about how to pay restitution to child pornography victims, but none seemed to satisfy all of the justices. Read More » A federal judge held Minneapolis lawyer William Butler in contempt for failing to pay about $80,000 in sanctions in a mortgage case and asked Minnesota's U.S. attorney to collect the sanctions and consider criminal proceedings against him. Read More » Corporate counsel leading the way in compliance, outside counsel management, diversity and deal work. Read More » Her removal after a gay rights ruling was demoralizing, but she has reason for hope. Read More » Meaningful regulation, instead of sporadic 'operations,' could significantly reduce consumer fraud. Read More » The very public patent war between Google Inc. and Apple Inc. also escalated behind the scenes in 2013, as both companies for the first time broke into the ranks of the top 20 recipients of U.S. patents. Read More » With just over 400 lawyers, Steptoe & Johnson LLP is neither large nor small, not wildly profitable or struggling to get by. For new executive committee chairman Philip West, who took the helm Jan. 1, the question now is whether being in the middle is enough. Read More » Despite a resounding recent setback before an appeals court, BP PLC remains unbowed in its campaign to rewrite its $9.6 billion settlement in the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The company continues to chip away at the deal both in the courts of law and of public opinion. Read More » | 
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