Headlines • Associate Hiring: 'Two Steps Forward, One Step Back' • FCC To Craft New Net Neutrality Rules • Verdict Near in 'Exceptional' Trademark Dispute • Poker Players Ask Justices: Is it Gambling? • Penalty Can Exceed Insider's Own Profits, Circuit Says • Robin Conrad, Former Top Chamber Official, Joins McKenna Long • Legal Departments of the Year: Minneapolis-St. Paul • We Can No Longer Ignore Atrocities of Kim Jong-Un's North Korea • D.C. Moves • Report: American Law Firm's Communications Spied On Last year brought evidence that hiring activity at law firms was slowly improving, although not returning to prerecession levels, according to data from NALP, the National Association for Law Placement. Read More » Hoping the third time will be the charm, the Federal Communications Commission announced today it will craft new rules for net neutrality that will pass muster with the courts. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Symposium on ACA Regulations  The Administrative Law Review's annual symposium on Mar. 4 will be an in-depth discussion on current regulatory issues under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). There will be a panel analyzing the Independent Payment Advisory Board and its potential to affect the scope of health benefits for consumers, and another which will analyze the issue of state compliance with the ACA. LEARN MORE | Jurors in California are set to decide whether social networking company Classmates.com infringed on the trademark of sports memorabilia dealer Memory Lane Inc. Read More » The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist ran a monthly poker game. Chief Justice and President William Howard Taft was an avid poker player, as were justices Robert Jackson and William Douglas. And Justice Antonin Scalia in a recent New York Magazine interview said, "I'm a damn good poker player." Poker is back in the U.S. Supreme Court, but not in the way those famous aficionados knew it. Read More » An insider trader can be required to disgorge the profits he channeled to others above and beyond the profits he earned for himself, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday. Read More » Robin Conrad, former executive vice president of the National Chamber Litigation Center, has joined the Washington office of McKenna Long & Aldridge as a litigation partner. Read More » For the first time, The National Law Journal recognizes leading in-house legal departments of companies based in the twin-city region of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Read More » Evidence of horrific injustice is irrefutable. The world community must take action. Read More » Legal industry job changes in our nation's capital. Read More » Revelations on Saturday that an American law firm's communications with a foreign government client were monitored a National Security Agency ally may provide new impetus for the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit a 2013 decision involving the nation's electronic surveillance law. Read More » | 
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