NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS Sotomayor, Kagan Are Interrupted the Most at Oral Arguments: Study By Marcia Coyle Since 2010, according to a newly updated study, female justices have been disproportionately interrupted in every term.... Read More

ATTORNEY COMPENSATION-LAW FIRM | NEWS Midwest Lawyers Stuck With Midwest Rates, Federal Judge Tells Arent Fox By Scott Flaherty The Washington, D.C.-based firm couldn't charge D.C. rates for work done by lawyers in its St. Louis outpost, the court... Read More

CAPITAL MARKETS | NEWS Proskauer Lands Corporate Partner From Dechert By Ryan Lovelace Corporate and capital markets partner William Tuttle traded one out-of-town firm for another in Washington. Read More

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS Ex-Kavanaugh Clerk Britt Grant, Now 11th Circuit Judge, Takes Oath From Her Old Boss By C. Ryan Barber Brett Kavanaugh, the U.S. Supreme Court nominee, put on black robes and returned to the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday to deliver... Read More

CRIMINAL LAW | NEWS Rick Gates Testifies to Helping Paul Manafort Hide Foreign Income By Ellis Kim Manafort's defense team is expected to cross-examine Gates this afternoon. Read More EMPLOYMENT COMPLIANCE | NEWS Trump's NLRB Is Taking New Look at Restricting Workers' Electronic Communication By Erin Mulvaney Can employees use corporate email and other forms of electronic communication to discuss their workplace? The National... Read More

Rick Gates Returns to the Stand After Tense Exchange Between Judge, Prosecutor The judge renewed his push for the attorneys to pick up the pace while challenging prosecutors on their line of questioning... Read More

BAR ASSOCIATIONS | NEWS ABA Holds Off on Removing LSAT Requirement for Law Schools By Karen Sloan A separate proposal to streamline the organization's law school accreditation procedures was adopted. Read More TTORNEY COMPENSATION-LAW FIRM Trump Lawyer Emmet Flood's Financial Disclosure Shows $3.3M Partner Share By C. Ryan Barber Emmet Flood's financial disclosure, released Monday by the White House, reveals his client work at Williams & Connolly... Read More LITIGATION | NEWS Feds Ask to DQ Orrick From Repping Former Jawbone Employee in Trade Secret Case By Ross Todd The lead prosecutor in a trade secret case against six former Jawbone employees who left for Fitbit claims that Orrick... Read More ANTITRUST | NEWS AT&T Case 'Will Shape the Future,' DOJ Tells DC Circuit in Opening Brief By Ellis Kim The U.S. Justice Department on Monday filed its opening brief in the D.C. Circuit. Here's a look at the Justice Department... Read More RECRUITING | NEWS Women Partners, Law Firm Leaders Have Vastly Different Big Law Lives, Study Shows By Roy Strom A new American Bar Association analysis shows that men and women experience life at large law firms vastly differently.... Read More COMMERCIAL LITIGATION | NEWS Cisco, Arista Settle IP, Antitrust Disputes With Arista Paying $400M By Scott Graham According to a joint statement from the parties, Arista will pay Cisco $400 million, maintain the product modifications... Read More LAW FIRM COMPETITION | NEWS White House Policy Aide Is Cozen O'Connor's Latest Lobbying Hire By Ryan Lovelace As Cozen O'Connor Pubic Strategies continues to grow, Alexandra Campau is completing a D.C. rite of passage: a full... Read More CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS Is it 'Palate' or 'Palette'? Cleaning Up the Supreme Court's Messes By Tony Mauro Most of the U.S. Supreme Court edits this term, as in past ones, fall in the categories of typographical or grammatical... Read More CIVIL APPEALS | PODCAST Why This Quinn Emanuel Litigator (and His Corporate Clients) Are Fighting for LGBT Workers By Vanessa Blum | Leigh Jones While the movement for marriage equality captured the public's attention, New York litigator Todd Anten says the push... Read More JUDGES | NEWS Tax Preparer Granted Use Immunity Testifies Against Manafort By Ellis Kim On the fourth day of Paul Manafort's bank and tax fraud trial, prosecutors called up the former Trump campaign chair's... Read More ADMINISTRATIVE LAW | NEWS Judge Spurns Trump Agency's 'Hodgepodge' Reasons for Ending DACA By Mike Scarcella U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington DC: "A conclusory assertion that a prior policy is illegal, accompanied... Read More LAW FIRM CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS By the Numbers: Inside Covington's Lucrative Lobbying for Qualcomm By MP McQueen Chipmaker Qualcomm has paid $28.3 million to Covington since 2004 for lobbying on trade, IP and other legislation in... Read More IMMIGRATION LAW | NEWS Immigration Lawyers View Judge Removal as 'Chilling Message' From DOJ By Max Mitchell The decision to replace a local immigration judge with a supervising judge from Washington, D.C., was an unusual move,... Read More LAW FIRM COMPETITION | NEWS Mueller's Interest in Skadden Presents Unique Crisis Management Challenge By Ryan Lovelace In this week's Washington Wrap, a look at how Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and former partner Gregory Craig... Read More CIVIL APPEALS Justice Ginsburg: 'The Returns Aren't In. This Was One Term' By Marcia Coyle "Our sharp disagreement rate—34 percent of all signed opinions—was considerably higher than in prior terms,"... Read More