Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Continuing to Downsize, Patton Boggs Shutters New Jersey Office

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• Continuing to Downsize, Patton Boggs Shutters New Jersey Office

• Tight Race at Bottom of Go-To Law Schools Rankings

• Justices Divided Over Greenhouse Gas Regulations

• Supreme Court Takes a Pass on Whirlpool Class Actions

• Hearing Set on Fraud Claims in Deepwater Horizon Settlement

• It's Their Job to Find the Jobs for Law Students

• The Go-To Law Schools

• VOIR DIRE: The Naked Truth

• Verdict Near in 'Exceptional' Trademark Dispute

• Columbia Takes the Lead

Continuing to Downsize, Patton Boggs Shutters New Jersey Office

Patton Boggs will close its Newark office after the firm lost almost $12 million there last year after insurance work arising from the Sept. 11 attacks dried up, according to Edward Newberry, Patton Boggs' managing partner. Read More »

Tight Race at Bottom of Go-To Law Schools Rankings

Seven law schools came within a hair of ranking among The National Law Journal’s Go-To Law Schools—the NLJ’s list of the 50 that led in sending their 2013 juris doctors into associate jobs in the 250 largest law firms in the country. Read More »

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Justices Divided Over Greenhouse Gas Regulations

U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to be in the market for a compromise on Monday in a high-stakes dispute over the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate greenhouse gases from stationary sources. Read More »

Supreme Court Takes a Pass on Whirlpool Class Actions

Defying expectations and the hopes of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the high court declined Monday to hear arguments that it should dismantle two class actions over allegedly defective Whirlpool Corp. washing machines. Read More »

Hearing Set on Fraud Claims in Deepwater Horizon Settlement

A federal judge in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation is set to hear arguments about whether distribution of a $2.3 billion settlement should go forward given BP's claims of fraud against plaintiffs attorney Mikal Watts. Read More »

It's Their Job to Find the Jobs for Law Students

A growing number of law schools are hiring employer-outreach experts to identify job opportunities. Read More »

The Go-To Law Schools

Our annual report on the law schools that supply the largest numbers of new associates to NLJ 250 law firms. Read More »

VOIR DIRE: The Naked Truth

Randy Travis has lost his bid to stop the public disclosure of dashcam video that shows him nude during his 2012 arrest for driving while intoxicated. Plus more in this week's column. Read More »

Verdict Near in 'Exceptional' Trademark Dispute

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 »



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