Headlines • Independent Law Schools Suffer Credit-Ratings Slips • Defendant Shot in Utah Federal Courthouse After Alleged Attack • Coca-Cola on Defensive in False-Advertising Arguments • Neil Eggleston Picked for White House Counsel • Bright Spots Amid Glum Jobs Outlook • Which Law Schools Are Tops for Jobs? • Turkey's Bid to Ban Twitter Is Futile • DOJ Relents on False-Statements Policy • MOVERS • Sharp Drop in Dickstein Net Income Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Vermont Law School's credit rating amid falling enrollment and financial uncertainty. Read More » A criminal defendant standing trial in Utah's new federal courthouse was shot multiple times by law enforcement Monday after he allegedly tried to attack a cooperating witness. Read More » The Coca-Cola Co.'s claim that it cannot be sued by a competitor for false advertising of its Pomegranate Blueberry juice blend did not appear to win many supporters on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. Read More » W. Neil Eggleston, a white-collar defender in Kirkland & Ellis' Washington office, was named Monday the next White House counsel. Eggleston was picked to replace Kathryn Ruemmler, a former Latham & Watkins partner who plans to stay at the post until mid-May, the White House said. Ruemmler intends to return to private practice in New York. Read More » Top law schools are able to place most of their graduates in associate positions, but elsewhere the future remains grim according to employment stats released last week by the American Bar Association. Read More » The best and worst schools, as ranked by the percentage of 2013 graduates who, nine months after graduation, have found full-time, long-term jobs that require bar passage — the gold standard for new legal jobs — according to the American Bar Association. Read More » Prime Minister Erdogan need only look to an earlier attack on social media — in Colonial America. Read More » Investigators trap suspects in lies and then use threat of prosecution to extract evidence, convictions. Read More » New hires and lateral moves in this week's column. Read More » Dickstein Shapiro faced its worst year in more than a decade after contingency cases didn't pull in income and the firm restructured, chairman James Kelly said in an interview. He called 2013 an "investment year." Read More » | 
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