NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • A.G. Eric Holder Defends White-Collar Crime Record • Dentons Makes 'Serious Overture' to Patton Boggs, but is the Firm Listening? • Feds Settle Two Occupy Protest Cases in D.C. • Apple, Ford, GE Team Up for Patent Lawsuit Reform • Alberto Gonzales Named Dean at Tennessee Law School • GM Recall Concessions Hardly Mollify Plaintiffs Bar Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. defended the U.S. Department of Justice's track record holding large companies and financial institutions accountable for wrongdoing, telling lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the agency's record "will stand the test of time." Read More » Dentons said this week it has approached Patton Boggs for a possible merger at a time when the shrinking Washington firm and Squire Sanders say their merger talks continue. Why is there a disconnect between what one firm will say and what another won't? Read More » The federal government will pay thousands of dollars to settle two lawsuits challenging the arrests of protesters affiliated with the Occupy movement. Read More » Fearing upheaval in the U.S. patent system, Apple Inc., Ford Motor Co., General Electric Co. and other major companies have united to influence patent lawsuit reform in Congress, tapping former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director David Kappos for advice. Read More » Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been named dean of Belmont University College of Law, a private, Christian school that opened in Nashville in 2011. Gonzales, a faculty member since 2012, will replace founding dean Jeff Kinsler in June. Read More » General Motors Corp.'s hiring of noted claims attorney Kenneth Feinberg has raised the possibility that it might set up a fund to compensate victims of accidents linked to its recent recalls. But the announcement, made by CEO Mary Barra during testimony before Congress, has done little to placate the plaintiffs bar. Read More » | 
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