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Downloaded: The Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a former Boston University student whose admission to downloading 30 songs on the unlicensed file-sharing service Kazaa led to a jury?s $675,000 damages award against him, The New York Times...
Four Dewey & LeBoeuf Lawyers Defect to Proskauer Rose
Dewey & LeBoeuf Vice Chairman Ralph Ferrara and three of his colleagues are heading to Proskauer Rose, the firm announced on Monday. It's the latest of a long series of recent defections from lawyers with the close-to-defunct firm. It's also...
Baker & McKenzie Expands Tax Practice with Lateral from Miller & Chevalier
The former vice chair of Miller & Chevalier?s employee benefits practice has left to rejoin Baker & McKenzie, the latter announced Monday. Anne Batter joins Baker & McKenzie in the firm?s Washington office as a partner in its tax practice....
Cisco Systems Retains McGuireWoods to Lobby on Cyber Security
A former member of Congress who is now at McGuireWoods Consulting is helping lobby for a major networking equipment manufacturer, the firm disclosed to Congress last week. Former Rep. L.F. Payne (D-Va.), president of McGuireWoods Consulting, is advocating for Cisco...
Baker & Hostetler Hires New Antitrust Partner from Mayer Brown
Updated 4:32 p.m. Baker & Hostetler announced today it has picked up a new partner for its D.C. antitrust practice. Jonathan Lewis, who joins Baker from Mayer Brown, said one driving force behind the move was the opportunity to work...
The crux of Clemens case
For the government, Brian McNamee's testimony, which played out over five days and more than 18 hours, is critical to convince jurors that Roger Clemens lied to Congress in 2008 when he denied using steroids and human-growth hormones.
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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?
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.
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.
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Decision time
It's pressure cooker time at the Supreme Court. With oral arguments over, the justices are holed up with their clerks churning out draft opinions in pending cases, with an internal deadline of June 1.
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.
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.
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- Congressional hearings on JPMorgan hedge fund losses likely, attorneys say
Monday, May 14, 2012 - State Department comes under criticism at D.C. Circuit hearing
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - Statistics show no progress in federal court law clerk diversity
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A new Center for Covington; if music be the food of justices, play on; Patton Boggs new Singapore lobbyists; graduation day at the Family Treatment Court program; Standly's the new D.C. ACLU exec; judges run for charity; and Landgraf lands at Arnold & Porter in this week's column.
