Headlines • Law Firm Surveillance Report Cited in Legal Challenge • Bid Fails to Ship Mortgage-Securities Cases to Kansas • Law Scholarship Gift Targets Loyola Marymount Graduates • Is Threat of Surveillance New Reality For Law Firms? • Legal Departments of the Year: Minneapolis-St. Paul • Risk Management — Beware of the Enforcers • VOIR DIRE: The Real Dean • In-House Counsel Profile: Hearsay Social Inc.'s Yasmin Zarabi • D.C. Moves • Report: American Law Firm's Communications Spied On The weekend's disclosure that an allied foreign government monitored a U.S. law firm's communications with a client has already been cited in a legal challenge to the National Security Agency's surveillance practices. Read More » Seven lawsuits filed by the National Credit Union Administration Board will move forward against banks that sold residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) after a federal judicial panel refused to coordinate them with similar cases in Kansas. 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 | Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, has received a $1 million donation from the William H. Hannon Foundation in support of scholarships for students who attended Loyola Marymount University as undergraduates. Read More » For many lawyers who represent foreign governments, the recent revelation that the U.S. National Security Agency's Australian ally has been privy to communications between an American law firm and its international client comes as no surprise. 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 » The government will fix its focus on the health care, energy and manufacturing sectors in 2014. Read More » Indiana-based company CMG Worldwide Inc. has filed a suit against Twitter Inc. over the username @jamesdean. Plus some EDM fallout in this week's column. Read More » Yasmin Zarabi is Heasay Social's first in-house lawyer and to date its only one — but not for long. 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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