Judge Asks Twitter and Yahoo to Respond to Subpoena Question

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Judge Asks Twitter and Yahoo to Respond to Subpoena Question • Former FBI Director Mueller Joins Wilmer • Privacy and Trade Group Focused on Cross-Border Data Flow • Top Verdicts of 2013: Lag in IP Awards Pegged to Federal Circuit Ruling • ACA Foes Claim Religious Rights • Prosecutors Assailed for Broad Asks Judge Asks Twitter and Yahoo to Respond to Subpoena Question A federal magistrate judge in Washington wants to hear from Twitter and Yahoo before ruling on a request by federal prosecutors to block those companies from disclosing information on grand jury subpoenas. Read More » Former FBI Director Mueller Joins Wilmer Former Federal Bureau of Investigations Director Robert Mueller III has joined Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr as an equity partner, the firm said Monday. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Hospitality & Tourism Law Program Join AUWCL's Hospitality and Tourism Law Program June 2-6, 2014 in Washington, DC. Learn about career paths from leading practitioners and network with titans of the hotel legal community. Study licensing and franchise rights, development, labor law, and more. The program is ideal for attorneys seeking careers in hotel law at firms or as in-house counsel and those interested in hotel development and operations. Scholarships available! Visit wcl.american.edu/htl Privacy and Trade Group Focused on Cross-Border Data Flow As scrutiny increases regarding the movement and security of data across borders, a business group Hogan Lovells created last year to promote privacy and free trade has deployed former senior lawyers from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and International Business Machines Corp. to lobby for it in Washington, D.C. Read More » Top Verdicts of 2013: Lag in IP Awards Pegged to Federal Circuit Ruling For the first time in years, intellectual property cases contributed no billion-dollar jury verdicts in 2013. In fact, IP recoveries decreased significantly both in number and in dollar amount when compared with 2012. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Attend the Largest Conference for Legal Career Professionals Seattle sets the stage for NALP's 2014 Annual Education Conference & Resource Center Exhibition as attendees shop for ideas in an eye-opening 'Marketplace of Ideas' April 9 - 12, 2014. NALP's Annual Education Conference offers almost 100 sessions on topics such as diversity and inclusion, lateral recruiting and hiring, and lawyer professional development. This year's plenary speakers are Brad Smith, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft, and Steven J. Harper, author of The Lawyer Bubble. Register before the early bird deadline ends on March 7. ACA Foes Claim Religious Rights Nobody questions the deeply held religious beliefs of the corporate owners who will challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court this week the Affordable Care Act's requirement that employee health insurance plans cover contraceptives. But that's where all agreement ends. Read More » Prosecutors Assailed for Broad Asks Prosecutors in Washington have repeatedly filed overly broad search warrant requests for electronic data that fail to balance government interests against the public's privacy expectations, a federal magistrate judge ruled this month in a rare rebuke. Read More »

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