By Marcia Coyle | June 28, 2017
If President Donald Trump gets to fill another U.S. Supreme Court seat, he will have an experienced hand in Kirkland & Ellis partner Beth Williams guiding any nominee through confirmation. Williams is Trump's pick to head the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy. Here are six things to know about Williams, whose nomination was considered Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
By Erin Mulvaney | June 27, 2017
William Emanuel, a Los Angeles-based management-side attorney, will be President Donald Trump's second pick for the National Labor Relations Board, a move that would give the long incomplete five-member panel a Republican majority poised to adopt pro-employer stances.
By Katelyn Polantz | June 27, 2017
Venable's Justin Fairfax and McGuireWoods' John Adams are both on statewide ballots this year. What does that mean for their firms?
By Marcia Coyle | June 22, 2017
Adam Jed, a 2008 Harvard Law School graduate and former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, has joined Special Counsel Robert Mueller III's legal team in the investigation of Russia's interference with the U.S. presidential election. At the DOJ, Jed defended the Affordable Care Act and helped implement the Supreme Court's DOMA ruling.
By Erin Mulvaney | June 20, 2017
Long-time public sector attorney Marvin Kaplan was tapped Monday by President Donald Trump for a vacancy on the National Labor Relations Board, moving the agency tasked with ruling on major disputes between businesses and unions one step closer to a Republican majority for the first time in nearly a decade.
By Marcia Coyle | June 16, 2017
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday reversed its position in a key labor case, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that workplace agreements that ban class actions do not run afoul of federal labor law.
By Cogan Schneier and C. Ryan Barber | June 16, 2017
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein faced mounting pressure Friday to recuse himself from overseeing the investigation of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. His recusal could push Rachel Brand, the No. 3 in command at Main Justice, into a greater national spotlight. Brand was the first woman to ever serve as associate attorney general. Here are highlights from her career, which includes stints in Big Law at Wilmer Hale, and running the SCOTUS murder boards for Justices John Roberts Jr. and Samuel Alito Jr.
By Marcia Coyle | June 15, 2017
With President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump watching, Justice Neil Gorsuch on Thursday was officially invested as the 101st associate justice of the United States in a brief, formal ceremony in the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Marcia Coyle | June 9, 2017
James Comey said he knew what Donald Trump meant when he reportedly said he hoped the then-FBI director would drop the Michael Flynn investigation. That got New York labor lawyer Andrew Strom thinking with colleagues on Friday. Has the NLRB ever addressed "hope" in a case? Yes, the board has.
By Cheryl Miller and Marcia Coyle | June 7, 2017
A federal appellate panel on Wednesday blocked the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma from challenging Colorado's marijuana legalization law, saying their claims should be directed to the U.S. Supreme Court—a venue that has already refused to hear their fight.
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