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Calendar Draws Supreme Kibitzers
Some of the titans of the U.S. Supreme Court bar have privately asked Chief Justice William Rehnquist to consider overhauling the court's calendar to take into account its drastically reduced docket. The reason: the court's new lean, mean docket is shaving days and weeks off the time lawyers have to brief their cases and prepare for oral arguments. But the extraordinary and unpublicized effort by more than a dozen veteran Supreme Court advocates has been politely rejected by Rehnquist.Law Schools Are One Reason The Lawyer Bubble Keeps Growing
In June, the legal services sector lost more than 3,000 jobs, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Since June 2012, the latest BLS data shows, the industry has seen a net gain of only 1,000 jobs. In the last two months alone, 6,000 positions disappeared.Supreme Court Ruling Opens Courts to More Class Actions
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented in a ruling that allows certain class actions barred or limited by state laws to be pursued in federal courts.Overwhelmed by the pace of patent litigation news? Here's some of what you may have missed.
This could be a game changer, folks--and it couldn't come at a more critical moment for opponents of the deals that keep generic drugs off the market.
NY Judge Finds Congress Can Intervene in Challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
On Monday, inspired by Skadden's summary judgment win over a pro se songwriter who claimed Jon Bon Jovi and Major League Baseball (among others) had misappropriated his paean to the Boston Red Sox, we issued a challenge to all you budding Bob Dylans: Write a love anthem to your firm. Amazingly, Skadden associate Stacy Kray took up the gantlet. And even more amazingly, she and the song are great!
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