NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • DHS Head Calls for Immigration and Cybersecurity Reform • Amid Client Conflict, Three Lawyers Decamp for Wiley • Sentence Highlights Growing Threat to Justice Officials • D.C. Circuit Judge Files Negligence Suit • He'll Take Game Shows for $126,000 • Judge Denies Injunction to Lawyer in D.C. Attorney General Spat • State Dept. Contractor Pleads Guilty in Media Leak Case • Chief Justice Roberts Names Two Judges to Surveillance Court • Panel Near Decision on Law Schools' Bar Exam Passage Rates • Obama Criticized For Nominating Mostly Corporate Lawyers In his first major address as Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson today called for "commonsense solutions" to the nation's immigration system and asked Congress to provide legal clarity on the department's role in safeguarding private-sector cyber networks. Read More » Three intellectual property lawyers left Baker & Hostetler to join Wiley Rein after a merger created a client conflict. Read More » A Massachusetts federal judge sentenced a 76-year-old man to nine years in prison in a murder-for-hire plot targeting a state prosecutor who wanted him behind bars for drunken driving. Read More » In a rare case, Senior Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is the plaintiff in a negligence lawsuit filed in D.C. Superior Court. Read More » In the Washington world, where handshakes shared with major power players often turn into photos on an office wall, Thomas Cubbage III of Covington & Burling shows off only one vintage side-by-side shot with a famous person: Alex Trebek. Read More » Paul Zukerberg, a lawyer challenging the D.C. Council's decision to delay the city's first election of an attorney general, lost his bid to require city election officials to include him on the ballot. Read More » Former U.S. Department of State contractor Stephen Jin-Woo Kim pleaded guilty to leaking confidential information to the press about North Korea. Read More » Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has named two federal judges—both appointed by Democrat presidents—to sit on secret courts in Washington that review government surveillance applications. Read More » An American Bar Association panel is near a decision about whether to tighten the rules governing rates of bar-examination passage. Read More » President Barack Obama has made history when it comes to bringing racial and gender diversity to the federal bench, but a senator and liberal interest groups want him to nominate fewer corporate lawyers from large, well-known firms. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES | 
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