Senate Vote Could End Feud Over Ninth Circuit Seat

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Senate Vote Could End Feud Over Ninth Circuit Seat • McGuireWoods Opens Dallas Office With Patton Boggs Partners • Judge Awards Embassy Bombing Victims $955 Million • Tobacco Lobby Targets Trans-Pacific, Trans-Atlantic Pacts • America's 50 Outstanding General Counsel • Summer is Torts Time For National Park Service Senate Vote Could End Feud Over Ninth Circuit Seat The Senate today is expected to fill the longest judicial vacancy in the federal courts with a vote that could end nine years of quarreling over a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Read More » McGuireWoods Opens Dallas Office With Patton Boggs Partners Six lawyers have left Patton Boggs to open a Dallas office for Richmond-based McGuireWoods, the firm said today, confirming reports last week about the moves. Read More » Judge Awards Embassy Bombing Victims $955 Million U.S. District Judge John Bates of the District of Columbia awarded more than $955 million to the victims and family members of victims of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read More » Tobacco Lobby Targets Trans-Pacific, Trans-Atlantic Pacts As the United States continues negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), tobacco giant Philip Morris International Management SA has turned to former Rep. Bill Paxon, R-N.Y., and other Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld lobbyists for help. Read More » America's 50 Outstanding General Counsel The National Law Journal recognizes lawyers who have what it takes to run exemplary in-house legal departments. Read More » Summer is Torts Time For National Park Service Loss of future income and medical expenses can be quantified, but putting a price on pain and suffering is something of an art. Read More »

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