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D.C. Circuit Upholds Key Section Of Voting Rights Act

A divided federal appellate panel today upheld the constitutionality of the heart of the Voting Rights Act in a decision setting the stage for an eventual U.S. Supreme Court battle. ?It?s highly likely we will take this case to the...

Clemens Prosecutors Concerned About Jurors' Impression of Key Witness

As the cross-examination of the chief witness in the Roger Clemens perjury case continued today, prosecutors in Washington filed court papers suggesting the government is concerned about the possible harm the vigorous questioning could have on jurors. Government lawyers asked...

D.C. Council Weighs Extending Time to File Wrongful Death Lawsuits

A proposed bill that would extend the statute of limitations to file civil wrongful death lawsuits in Washington went before the District of Columbia Council's Committee on the Judiciary today with little fanfare. The Wrongful Death Act of 2012 would...

Patton Boggs Signs to Lobby for Singapore on Trans-Pacific Partnership

Less than a month after White & Case filed paperwork with the U.S. Justice Department disclosing its advocacy in the United States for Singapore, this week another law firm in Washington revealed that it too is lobbying here for the...

Odd Bedfellows Get Together Behind Prison Phone Rate Reform

An unlikely coalition of civil rights and conservative groups has banded together to ask the Federal Communications Commission to end "exorbitant" fees that many prisons charge inmates to make phone calls. It can cost 10 times more to call anyone...

Solo practitioner Charles Daum exiting the U.S. District Courthouse

A lawyer on trial

Last week, as prosecutors began playing muffled, obscenity-laced jailhouse recorded calls that are the centerpiece in the case against Washington attorney Charles Daum, a key question emerged: Did Daum's client manipulate him?

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Markus & Markus' David Oscar Markus

Hyde Amendment fee awards rarely granted

Federal judges have long held the power to force the government to pay legal bills in criminal cases where government lawyers did not play fair. But the so-called "Hyde Amendment," the mechanism to recoup the cost of a defense, is rarely successful.

The Majority Group's Walt Minnick

Former lawmakers starting as Hill lobbyists

Federal law mandates that ex-representatives complete a one-year "cooling-off" period before they traverse the Hill as lobbyists. Former senators must wait two years.

Judge Julia Gibbons of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Clerkship diversity gap

More than a decade after minority groups first started pushing for more diversity among federal law clerks, legislators on Capitol Hill are questioning why the latest statistics from the federal courts show a move in the opposite direction.

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Solo practitioner Daniel Wolf

Writers' case spurs fee fight

For a class of older television writers suing studios, networks and talent agencies for age discrimination, a $70 million settlement reached in 2010 was a happy ending. For the writers' lawyers, though, it was only the opening act in a story line that might seem cliché to some of their clients — a fight over money.

Attorney Howard Bashman

10 years later, a mass appeal

Appellate practitioner Howard Bashman was largely unknown outside Philadelphia when he decided to take the plunge into law blogging in May 2002. Twenty million page views and 10 years later, his blog How Appealing has made Bashman something of a nationwide rock star in the usually staid field of appellate law.

Venable's Ronald Glancz

Congressional hearings on JPMorgan hedge fund losses likely, attorneys say

Congress is sure to hold hearings on how and why JPMorgan Chase lost $2 billion in hedge fund trading and what safeguards might prevent it from repeating, including testimony from federal banking regulators and the company's chief executive Jamie Dimon, financial regulation lawyers say.

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(L-R) Gov. George C. Wallace, U.S. Marshal Peyton Norville, and U.S. deputy attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Ala., on June 11, 1963.

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The passing of a 1960s political icon; an impressive wonk session; a mother of a call-in show; Chilton's pop culture infotainment; Trisha Hall gives Hope; and a new fellowship at Bingham to foster diversity in this week's column.

 
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