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Mike Scarcella is a senior editor in Washington on ALM Media's regulatory desk. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter: @MikeScarcella. Mike works on a slate of newsletters: Supreme Court Brief | Higher Law | Compliance Hot Spots | Labor of Law.
May 19, 2021 | The Recorder
"The rates that Morrison & Foerster attorneys billed on this matter and included in this request are reasonable in light of prevailing community standards for comparable legal work," a leading partner said in a new filing.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
May 12, 2021 | National Law Journal
O'Melveny & Myers and Morrison & Foerster are among the firms seeking fees for advocacy in a long-running abortion rights case that went to the Supreme Court last term. Stanford's Jeff Fisher, the veteran Supreme Court practitioner, is among the lawyers whose work on the case was highlighted in a fee petition.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
May 4, 2021 | National Law Journal
Two veteran former assistant U.S. attorneys in the District of Columbia are soon set to face an ethics panel over claims they withheld evidence from the defense lawyers for the man once accused of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy. The attorneys dispute they violated any D.C. bar rule on professional responsibility. "It is also an easy violation to avoid; all the prosecutor has to do is disclose," D.C. disciplinary counsel Hamilton P. Fox III said.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
March 19, 2021 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Lawyers care as much about how their words appear in filings as what arguments those words are making. Here's a roundup of some of the things lawyers were saying on social media about the D.C. Circuit's discouragement of using the Garamond typeface.
By Marcia Coyle and Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
February 22, 2021 | National Law Journal
The nine-member grievance committee in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia includes current and former prosecutors, a Supreme Court veteran and Big Law leaders.
By Mike Scarcella | Nate Robson
1 minute read
January 24, 2021 | National Law Journal
Jeffrey Clark, then acting head of the DOJ civil division and a former Kirkland & Ellis partner, denied he participated in any effort to remove Jeffrey Rosen, then the acting U.S. attorney general. "All my official communications were consistent with the law," Clark said, according to a New York Times report.
By Mike Scarcella | C. Ryan Barber
1 minute read
January 15, 2021 | National Law Journal
The former law clerk to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spoken and written extensively on the signature Obama-era Affordable Care Act.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
January 11, 2021 | National Law Journal
The Biden administration on Monday announced 21 additional new hires at the White House counsel's office, including five former U.S. Supreme Court clerks who worked for Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
By Mike Scarcella | Marcia Coyle
1 minute read
January 4, 2021 | National Law Journal
"This is as blatant an attempt to steal an election as you will ever hear," Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said on Twitter. And George Conway stated: "The real question that pops up here, and pops up again and again, is how delusional is he? Is he that delusional, or is he just desperate? I think it's a little bit of both."
By Marcia Coyle | Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
December 31, 2020 | National Law Journal
Roberts used the latest installment of his report to broadly praise judges, court staff and law enforcement for the collaborative work allowing the courts to continue to function amid the great uncertainty of the pandemic.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
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