Sessions Staffs Up: Readying himself for possible battle over the next Supreme Court nominee, new Senate Judiciary Committee ranking minority member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has announced three new hires or promotions, according to this BLT post from David Ingram...
Sen. Jeff Sessions has chosen Brian Benczkowski, a former chief of staff to then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey, to lead the Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sessions (R-Ala.) also announced three more top appointments or promotions today, drawing on...
Hausfeld LLP and DiMuroGinsberg filed a class action lawsuit in federal court today on behalf of more than 15,000 middle school, high school, and college students who paid to attend “Presidential Inaugural Conferences� during President Barack Obama’s inauguration earlier this...
The Judicial Conference's committee on codes of conduct issued a memorandum today advising federal judges not to accept certain kinds of discounted club memberships because of a law passed by Congress last year. The advisory appears to rule out a...
It might have been a casual luncheon, but that didn’t make the questions any less probing. In a wide-ranging dialogue hosted by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund at the National Press Club this afternoon, Gwen Ifill, the moderator...
Washington's top 25 revenue-generating firms show slow growth and consider themselves lucky.
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Washington law firms are cutting costs anywhere they can, and associate pay is no longer an exception. Seven Washington offices have slashed salaries; others are cutting pay for associates who don't hit their billable hours.
Williams & Connolly is notoriously tight-lipped, and there are two things the firm especially hates to discuss: its financial information and its clients.
CRAIG's CASH: White House Counsel Gregory Craig made $1.7 million as a partner at Williams & Connolly in 2008, according to his disclosure report." />Legal career counselors and agency officials say there's been a surge in lawyer applicants for government jobs, thanks to the crashing private sector economy, and the swelling talent pool is making the cumbersome process even tougher.
A 39-year-old convicted felon who dated a District of Columbia Superior Court magistrate judge is charged with stalking the judge and breaking into her Washington home. The broken relationship has produced not only the criminal charges but also a civil suit and an ethics complaint against the judge.
Last year, Congress set aside $100 million to pay thousands of black farmers who, due to problems with their paperwork, were shut out of a massive discrimination settlement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Now lawyers are locked in a dispute over how to structure a second round of claims to produce the best financial result for the farmers and for themselves.
A BlackBerry takes front and center in the Robert Wone case; the SEC focuses more on high-level employees; Billy Martin leaves Sutherland Asbill for Howrey; greater transparency expected by new Professional Responsibility chief Mary Patrice Brown; lobbyists still unclear on Obama's new rules; and Cahn & Samuels won't stop till they get enough from the King of Pop.