La Verne Offers Flat-Rate Law School Tuition

Headlines • La Verne Offers Flat-Rate Law School Tuition • Demonstrators' Free Speech Claims Meet Skeptical Justices • Jury Convicts Abu Ghayth on All Counts • Prosecution of Blackwater Guards Survives Early Challenge • Top Verdicts of 2013: Lag in IP Awards Pegged to Federal Circuit Ruling • Debtors' Prison — It Still Exists in 21st Century America • Yes, Your Google Presence Matters • Women Find Welcome From Fortune 500 • China's Light Touch on Insider Trading • Name of Seeking Alpha Blogger in Hand, Einhorn Drops Suit La Verne Offers Flat-Rate Law School Tuition The University of La Verne College of Law is getting out of the tuition discounting game and rolling out what appears to be the first true flat-rate tuition system at an American Bar Association-accredited law school. Read More » Demonstrators' Free Speech Claims Meet Skeptical Justices The U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely on Wednesday to protect Secret Service agents from being sued for violating the free speech rights of demonstrators. 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 Jury Convicts Abu Ghayth on All Counts After six hours of deliberations, a jury found Sulaiman Abu Ghayth guilty Wednesday for conspiring with al Qaida to kill Americans anywhere in the world. The verdict will almost certainly result in life in prison for the son-in-law of the late Osama bin Laden when he is sentenced on Sept. 8. Read More » Prosecution of Blackwater Guards Survives Early Challenge Federal prosecutors' renewed case against four former private security guards charged with fatally shooting more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in 2007 has survived an initial challenge. 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. 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 » Debtors' Prison — It Still Exists in 21st Century America Underfunded criminal and civil courts are functioning as abusive collection agencies. Read More » Yes, Your Google Presence Matters You just need to decide if you want to make it a strength or a liability. Read More » Women Find Welcome From Fortune 500 As more women entered law schools once barred to them — the last gender barrier dropped in 1970 — the general counsel numbers kept rising. By 2014, MCCA listed 106 women general counsel of top corporations. Read More » China's Light Touch on Insider Trading In what's believed to be its first enforcement action against a lawyer for insider trading, the China Securities Regulatory Commission fined Jun He Law Offices partner Mi Xingping just $5,000. A number of lawyers in the country say insider trading is not usually viewed as a serious offense in China, with offenders more often hailed as clever than reviled as criminal. Read More » Name of Seeking Alpha Blogger in Hand, Einhorn Drops Suit Hedge fund manager David Einhorn has withdrawn his suit seeking to unmask an anonymous blogger at financial news website Seeking Alpha who revealed his investment in Micron Technology before Einhorn intended to make it public. Read More »

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