Headlines • Former Obama Administration Official Loses Bid to Keep Finances Secret • Another Two Law Schools Cut Tuition to Entice Students • Memorial Depicting Cross Declared Unconstitutional • Tyrrell, Patton Boggs May Part Ways Amid Merger Push, Newark Closing • Explore the Data Behind the Go-To Law Schools • Unknown: What Happened in the Attic; Known: Memory is Malleable • Lawyers Spar Over Discovery Rules • Justices Divided Over Greenhouse Gas Regulations • Movers • Continuing to Downsize, Patton Boggs Shutters New Jersey Office A Washington judge has denied former top Obama administration official Peter Orszag's bid to keep information about his private sector earnings secret in a child support case. Read More » Another two law schools announced scholarship programs designed to render a juris doctor more affordable and themselves more appealing to the dwindling number of law school applicants nationwide. Read More » A federal judge has blocked plans to build a war memorial at a minor league baseball stadium in California on the ground it would unconstitutionally endorse a religion. Read More » Patton Boggs, which is engaged in preliminary merger talks with Squire Sanders after announcing the closure of its Newark office this week, could see one of its top partners head for the door. James Tyrrell Jr., a member of the firm's executive committee and head of its toxic tort and product liability practice group, joined Patton Boggs in a high-profile lateral move in 2006. He also took on a controversial case representing indigenous Ecuadorians suing energy giant Chevron, which has complicated Patton Boggs' efforts to find a merger partner. As it happens, Squire Sanders has its own ties to the South American nation. Read More » The National Law Journal is releasing the data from our Go-To Law Schools report on large firm associate hiring in a searchable format—with access free to all readers. Read More » Woody Allen's family battle played out in the press is reminder of recall's fallibility. Read More » Another major front in the war between plaintiffs and corporate defendants over the high costs of litigation has opened up in an obscure corner of judicial bureaucracy: proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Read More » U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to be in the market for a compromise on Monday in a high-stakes dispute over the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate greenhouse gases from stationary sources. Read More » Geoffrey Willis joins the Brown Rudnick's environmental and real estate practices in the Irvine, Calif., office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column. Read More » Patton Boggs will close its Newark office after the firm lost almost $12 million there last year after insurance work arising from the Sept. 11 attacks dried up, according to Edward Newberry, Patton Boggs' managing partner. Read More » | 
