NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Leslie Caldwell Wins Committee Approval to Lead Criminal Division • Steptoe Profits Fall in 2013 • E-cigarette Industry Fires Up Lobbying Effort • White House Adviser Joins Akin Gump • In Black Farmers Case, Court Tosses Challenges to Denied Claims • Ex-Dewey Leaders Charged With Fraud, Theft The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the nomination of veteran white-collar defender Leslie Caldwell to lead the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Read More » For Steptoe & Johnson LLP, 2013 was a mixed bag. Revenue was flat at $365 million, profits per partner fell by $75,000 to $905,000, but revenue per lawyer climbed slightly to $900,000. Read More » With federal officials eying regulations for electronic cigarettes, a major trade group for the e-cigarette industry has registered its first lobbyists in Washington, D.C. Read More » Former White House advisor Ed Pagano has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he said he will lobby Congress on issues such as immigration and patent reform. Read More » Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will not reconsider the denial of hundreds of claims for a share of the $1.25 billion settlement fund in the black farmers discrimination case. Read More » Following a nearly two-year investigation that began as Dewey & LeBoeuf spiraled toward death, its former chairman, Steven Davis; its former executive director, Stephen DiCarmine; and its ex-chief financial officer, Joel Sanders, were accused Thursday of "concocting and overseeing a massive effort to cook the books" at the firm. Read More » | 
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