Headlines • Conservatives Plan Follow-Up Affirmative Action Attack • Target Data-Breach Litigation Coordinated in Minnesota • Plaintiffs Reduce Fee Demand in Prius Litigation • Ex-Blackwater Guard Wins Challenge of Manslaughter Indictment • GM In-House Lawyers Pulled Into Ignition Switch Probe • Anglo-American Firms Face Identity Choice in Asia • Court Overturns Wal-Mart Discrimination Dismissal • The Fracas Over Fracking • Movers • D.C. Moves Edward Blum, head of the one-man Project on Fair Representation, announced on Monday that he is targeting three major universities for potential legal challenges to their use of race in admissions: Harvard University, the University of North Carolina and the University of Wisconsin. Read More » A federal panel has ordered about 100 consumer class actions filed against Target Corp. over its data breach transferred to Minnesota, where lawyers in related derivative shareholder actions have moved to appoint lead counsel. Read More » Five plaintiffs law firms that originally sought $4.7 million in fees in a class action settlement over Prius headlight defects have agreed to lower their demand to $855,000. Read More » A federal appeals court in Washington handed the U.S. Department of Justice a loss Monday in its revived prosecution of former Blackwater guards charged with killing Iraqi civilians in 2007. Read More » The in-house lawyers at General Motors Co. are slowly being pulled into the public questions over its ignition switch recall. Read More » Should firms like DLA Piper or Hogan Lovells pitch themselves as British or American in Asia? At most firms resulting from transatlantic mergers, the British side brought more to the table in Asia and continues to run the show there. But there are also strong incentives to accentuate their American identities. Read More » A federal appeals court has reversed a Texas district court's dismissal of Stephanie Odle's individual sex discrimination claims against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., finding that the former Lubbock Wal-Mart employee's suit can move forward because it was filed in a timely manner. Read More » As energy companies push to expand extraction of oil and natural gas through hydraulic fracturing, we consider some of the legal angles in this special section. Read More » Erin Murphy joins Arnstein & Lehr's litigation practice group as special counsel to the Chicago office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column. Read More » Legal industry job changes in our nation's capital. Read More » | 
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