Headlines • The Post-'McCutcheon' World • Regulation of Bitcoin Is Up for Grabs • University Lobby Push • High Court Drama Steps on Stage In Play on Landmark Nudity Case • A Slimmer Patton Boggs Draws Looks • The Fracas Over Fracking • How Do Lawyers Measure Success? • The False Assumption in the Hobby Lobby Case • Movers • D.C. Moves Campaign reform advocates grappled with the possibility that a constitutional amendment might be their only remaining option to limit the power of money in politics in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark April 2 ruling in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. Read More » Following a series of multimillion-dollar thefts and losses, federal regulators want to step up their oversight of virtual currency bitcoin. But bitcoin — a nationless digital money that uses cryptography to control its creation and transactions — doesn't fit neatly in any regulatory box. Read More » More than three dozen universities are spending millions of dollars on Washington lobbyists to help shape patent litigation reform as the U.S. Senate crafts a plan to stop abusive practices. Read More » Justices scooting around on their chairs like whirling dervishes. Advocates pushing their lecterns back and forth, one lawyer even orating and dancing — briefly — without benefit of clothing. That is how the play "Arguendo" holds its audience through the inevitably dull stretches of a high court argument. Read More » The end of March brought another flurry of change at Patton Boggs, as several partners in Dallas decamped to McGuireWoods and a New York judge ruled that Chevron Corp. can sue the firm for alleged misconduct. 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 » Don't be afraid to set big goals, but be ready to pay the price to see them through. Read More » Error in the definition of an 'abortion-causing' drug belies the religious-freedom question. 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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