Headlines • Roberts Warns of Impact of Budget Cuts on Judiciary • Rare Trial Looms on Claims Against Mortgage Lender • No Law School Rank? No Problem For This Skadden Fellow • For Judges, a Year of Opinions Outside the Courtroom • Shutdowns and Showdowns • Listen Up: Federal Judges Have a Few Things to Say • VOIR DIRE: The Year in Celebrities • Firms See Notable Mergers And Changes in Leadership • Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again • Sotomayor Will Count Down to New Year in Times Square UPDATED AT 8:14 p.m. In his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. on Tuesday warned that continued severe budget cuts would result in courtroom layoffs, trial delays and a "deepening threat to public safety... Read More » A Boston federal judge has moved a borrower's negligent misrepresentation claim against PNC Mortgage Corp. for allegedly misleading her about mortgage terms one step closer to a jury trial. Read More » Every once in awhile, the Skadden Fellowship Foundation selects someone from an unranked law school, as it did this year with Sarah Hess. She is the first student from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago to win the prestigious fellowship. Read More » Over the past year or so, several high-profile judges have given interviews to members of the media and written well-trafficked op-eds—frequently making news with their out-of-court opinions and sometimes criticizing one another. Read More » 2013 was the year that made the legal, judicial and political scenarios in "The Good Wife," "Homeland" or "House of Cards" look, well, plausible. Read More » Federal trial and appellate judges, typically quiet when they're off the bench, sound off about budget woes, filibusters and surveillance. Read More » They may be beautiful and talented (it's in the eye of the beholder) but they're not immune to legal woes. Read More » 2013 was marked by a record number of law firm combinations, but some deals were star-crossed; John Edwards returns to the practice. Read More » NALP's latest report shows a stubborn decline for women in the legal profession. Read More » Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's voice may be the last you hear in 2013. The Bronx native has agreed to press the button that starts the descent of the New Year's Eve ball in New York's Times Square, and to... Read More » |
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