After Video Surfaces, Supreme Court Reviews Screening Procedures

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • After Video Surfaces, Supreme Court Reviews Screening Procedures • Another $1 Billion Year for Wilmer Cutler • Arent Fox Sets Firm Record For Gross Revenue • Court Lets FTC Keep Its Big Gun • Drug Conviction Overturned on Prosecutor's Motion • Legal Counsel for the Elderly to Receive Potter Stewart Award • Report Shows 'Real Costs' of Securities Class Actions • Former Obama Administration Official Loses Bid to Keep Finances Secret • Another Two Law Schools Cut Tuition to Entice Students • Memorial Depicting Cross Declared Unconstitutional After Video Surfaces, Supreme Court Reviews Screening Procedures The surreptitious videos taken inside the U.S. Supreme Court that popped up on YouTube in recent days were an embarrassment to the court—but not a violation of any law. Read More » Another $1 Billion Year for Wilmer Cutler For the second year in a row, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr generated gross revenue of more than $1 billion in 2013, as profits per partner increased by 2.7 percent to $1.5 million, according to our reporting. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Attend the Largest Conference for Legal Career Professionals Seattle sets the stage for NALP's 2014 Annual Education Conference & Resource Center Exhibition as attendees shop for ideas in an eye-opening 'Marketplace of Ideas' April 9 - 12, 2014. NALP's Annual Education Conference offers almost 100 sessions on topics such as diversity and inclusion, lateral recruiting and hiring, and lawyer professional development. This year's plenary speakers are Brad Smith, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft, and Steven J. Harper, author of The Lawyer Bubble. Register before the early bird deadline ends on March 7. Arent Fox Sets Firm Record For Gross Revenue Arent Fox grew its gross revenue for the fourth consecutive year in 2013, increasing 8.7 percent to a firm record of $263.5 million, according to our reporting. Read More » Court Lets FTC Keep Its Big Gun The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last week kept intact a key part in the Federal Trade Commis­sion's "arsenal," upholding a $163 million judgment against a woman who allegedly helped dupe consumers into buying computer-security software. Read More » Drug Conviction Overturned on Prosecutor's Motion An en banc panel of a federal appeals court has reversed a man's conviction for marijuana possession at the request of U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy of San Diego, who acknowledged the federal prosecutor at trial incorrectly introduced evidence during closing arguments. Read More » Legal Counsel for the Elderly to Receive Potter Stewart Award Legal Counsel for the Elderly is the recipient of this year's Justice Potter Stewart Award for work on behalf of the administration of justice in the District of Columbia. Read More » Report Shows 'Real Costs' of Securities Class Actions Investors each year have lost an average of $39 billion from securities class action lawsuits to collect only about $5 billion in settlements per year since the enactment of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act in 1995, according to a U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) study released Friday. Read More » Former Obama Administration Official Loses Bid to Keep Finances Secret A Washington judge has denied former top Obama administration official Peter Orszag's bid to keep information about his private sector earnings secret in a child support case. Read More » Another Two Law Schools Cut Tuition to Entice Students Another two law schools announced scholarship programs designed to render a juris doctor more affordable and themselves more appealing to the dwindling number of law school applicants nationwide. Read More » Memorial Depicting Cross Declared Unconstitutional A federal judge has blocked plans to build a war memorial at a minor league baseball stadium in California on the ground it would unconstitutionally endorse a religion. Read More »

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