Headlines • 'Risk-Free' J.D. Offers Students a One-Year Escape Hatch • Defense Contractor's Bribery Conviction Upheld on Appeal • Who Will be Star Witnesses If Dewey Case Goes to Trial? • Judge Blocks Government's Destruction of NSA Surveillance Data • Health Care: A Special Report • For GCs, Firing May Prove a Badge of Honor • In-House Counsel Profile: CME Group Inc.'s Kathleen Cronin • This Client Looks A Bit Questionable • D.C. Moves • Patton Boggs' 'Gray Cloud' The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is launching what it calls the first "risk-free" juris doctor program. Read More » A defense contractor convicted of bribing former U.S. Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham will head to prison after a federal appeals court declined to give him a new trial. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Freedom of Information Day Attend the 7th Annual Freedom of Information Day Celebration on Mar. 18, presented by Washington College of Law's Collaboration on Government Secrecy. Leading experts will discuss matters of current importance to the openness-in-government community, including in a 'legislative outlook' session featuring key congressional staff from all corners of Capitol Hill. LEARN MORE | Prosecutors will need more than damning emails to secure convictions of the four men accused of engineering a massive accounting fraud that helped hasten Dewey & LeBoeuf's collapse. Read More » U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, who is presiding over suits challenging the NSA's widespread collection of telephone call data, granted an emergency motion Monday to prevent possible evidence from being purged. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Stop Shipping Profits Out The Door In 'Stop Shipping Profits Out the Door,' law firms will discover how leveraging innovative shipping solutions can improve their bottom line. This white paper explains how web-based tools prevent shipping mistakes, improve accountability, and inform decision-making, ultimately reducing labor costs and unallocatable expenses. Click here for more information. | The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains the big news for health care practitioners, and we explore two aspects of the law in this special report — how it could expand access to mental health care and how employers can take advantage of a reprieve from the legal mandate to provide health insurance. We also examine the long struggle to ensure equal access to medical trials for women and minority groups. Read More » When most people are fired from their jobs, it means poor performance. But for some general counsel, being let go may be a badge of honor. Read More » CME Group Inc. is the parent of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange and the Commodity Exchange — in other words, the largest combined derivatives marketplace in the world. Read More » I know clients are sacred commodities these days, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why a firm like Mayer Brown needs clients fighting this kind of cause. Read More » Legal industry job changes in our nation's capital. Read More » In a lengthy ruling for Chevron Corp. in a long and hard-fought battle over the blame for pollution in the Amazon, Washington law firm Patton Boggs came in for plenty of attention—17 mentions in the main text of the ruling, to be exact. Read More » | 
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