Headlines • Seattle In-House Legal Departments of the Year • BP Snipes Away at Oil Spill Settlement • Challenges Ahead for FCC Over Internet Rules • Holidays Over for Justices • Legal Aid Demand Outpaces Program Growth, Providers Say • A Wiretap Case in New Light • Politics on the Bench — a Judge's View of Partisanship at Play • INADMISSIBLE: Steptoe & Johnson Selects New Chairman • New Chairman at Steptoe Eyes the Future • Court Sidesteps 'Novel' Defense Involving Armed IRS Agents Corporate counsel leading the way in compliance, outside counsel management, diversity and deal work. 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 » The Federal Communications Commission once again has come up short in its attempt to regulate broadband Internet service providers, but the decision last week by a divided panel of federal appellate judges in some ways also strengthened the agency's hand — and sets the stage for a potentially epic showdown over new rules. Read More » Returning from its holiday recess, the U.S. Supreme Court jumped right into the limelight last week with a pair of high-profile arguments and a major decision — but with major cases still ahead to be heard and decided. Read More » Service providers reflect on funding woes and the evolution of practices. Read More » Keith Forsyth, one of the peace activists identified for the first time recently as a participant in the burglary of a Pennsylvania FBI office in 1971, has another claim to fame: He was the named party in a Fourth Amendment dispute that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1985. Read More » Her removal after a gay rights ruling was demoralizing, but she has reason for hope. Read More » As the new executive committee chairman of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Philip West aims to sharpen the firm's image and build key practice areas — but he's on the fence about whether a merger makes sense. Plus more in this week's column. 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 » A federal appeals court has rejected a tax protester's claim that evidence seized during a search of his property must be tossed out because the IRS agents enforcing a warrant carried guns without statutory authority. Read More » | 
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