Headlines • GoDaddy.com Loses Motion to Recuse 'The Academy's Judge' • Judge Strikes Rule Restricting Subpoenas Against Lawyers • Court Ruling May Hurt Veterans with Disabilities • Albany Law Offers Buyouts to Offset Lower Enrollment • Litigation Boutiques Hot List • Bitcoin Exchange Executives Arrested • Special Report: Under Contract • Security Filings Spike • A Fanatical Approach To Preparation • Legal Team Throws Out the Usual Playbook Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com Inc. has lost an effort to force the recusal of a federal judge based on alleged bias toward the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose own attorney it said referred to her as "the Academy's judge." Read More » A federal judge in New Mexico has struck down a state attorney ethics rule restricting federal prosecutors from subpoenaing lawyers to testify about past or existing clients in grand jury proceedings. Read More » Veterans will face a higher hurdle in proving the severity of certain service-connected disabilities because of recent rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Read More » Albany Law School and some of its professors are at odds over plans to reduce faculty size due to declining enrollment, giving rise to a broader question of whether the institution should lower its standards to save jobs. Read More » At the 10 law firms spotlighted here, it's all about skill, not size. The lawyers at these litigation shops, all of which have fewer than 51 attorneys, are as clever at practicing on paper as they are at wooing a jury. Many of these lawyers have honed their craft at the biggest and best firms in the nation and have opted, once they've gained crucial work experience, for a small-firm career. We've highlighted the special strategies and creative approaches they used in 2013 to help set precedent, right wrongs and save the day for the client. Read More » The pair face federal money laundering charges. Read More » The U.S. government has slashed spending on outside legal work for a third consecutive year, leaving law firms and other legal services contractors with the smallest pot of money since President Barack Obama took office. Read More » In early 2013, the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic changed attorneys in a dispute in New York federal court over how the Southeast Asian nation would pay a $56 million arbitration judgment against it. It was a sobering assignment for the Laotian government's new counsel, MoloLamken. Read More » The experienced litigators at Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg knew just when to use unusual trial strategies last year to catch their courtroom opponents off guard. Read More » | 
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