Federal Defenders Set to Fill Jobs Lost Under Sequestration

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Federal Defenders Set to Fill Jobs Lost Under Sequestration • New Federal Appeals Cases Dropped in 2013 • Business Not Optimistic on Tax Reform in 2014 • Postal Regulatory Commission Names New General Counsel • Bitcoin Foundation Staffs Up for DC and Global Outreach • Once Again, U.S. News Ranks Yale No. 1 Law School Federal Defenders Set to Fill Jobs Lost Under Sequestration Federal defender offices, which lost approximately 400 employees because of last year's mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration, have enough money in this year's budget to begin backfilling most of those positions, court officials said today. Read More » New Federal Appeals Cases Dropped in 2013 The number of new cases filed in federal appellate courts nationwide, excluding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, decreased by 1.8 percent in 2013, according to new data the judiciary released Tuesday. Read More » Business Not Optimistic on Tax Reform in 2014 Businesses think the forecast for tax reform in Congress this year is murky, according to an annual survey released today from Miller & Chevalier and the National Foreign Trade Council. Not one of the 129 business tax executives who responded to the 2014 Tax Policy Forecast Survey predicted tax reform would be enacted in 2014, and three out of four believe that there will be little or no tax legislation this year. Read More » Postal Regulatory Commission Names New General Counsel For the first time in more than two decades, the regulatory agency that oversees the U.S. Postal Service has a new leader for its legal office. Read More » Bitcoin Foundation Staffs Up for DC and Global Outreach The Bitcoin Foundation, the leading advocacy group for the controversial digital currency, has bolstered its profile in Washington, D.C., and beyond with the addition of former PayPal Inc. lobbyist Jim Harper. Read More » Once Again, U.S. News Ranks Yale No. 1 Law School Another year, another U.S. News & World Report ranking naming Yale Law School as the best in the land. Read More »

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