U.S. District Senior Judge Louis Oberdorfer died last night at age 94, according to an announcement from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Oberdorfer was appointed in 1977 by ...
Winston & Strawn has picked up a group of intellectual property litigators from Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner. Partners John Alison, Steven Anzalone, Paul Goulet and Thomas Jarvis, ...
A sharply divided federal appeals court in Virginia today rejected a New York Times reporter's claim that he cannot be compelled to testify in the prosecution of a former CIA official in a national ...
The Senate today invoked the so-called "nuclear option" and stripped the ability of the minority party to block presidential nominations—a move that will smooth the path to confirmation for President ...
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. vowed Tuesday that the Justice Department would continue to enforce the Voting Rights Act around the country, even though he called the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, ...
The National Rifle Association has picked up another outside lobbying firm just as the U.S. Senate prepares to hold a vote on gun control legislation as early as this week. Greenberg Traurig is ...
The thorny question of how to calculate restitution to victims of child pornography came back before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last week, with the U.S. Department of Justice ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled today that the National Labor Relations Board overstepped its authority by issuing a rule that would have required employers to post notices ...
FishbowlDC, a website that covers D.C. media news and gossip, was hit yesterday with a libel lawsuit (PDF) in District of Columbia Superior Court. Wendy Gordon, a local publicist, claimed that ...
A highly anticipated report published today by the investigative arm of Congress addresses the murky arena of "political intelligence" but leaves unanswered many questions about the size and power of ...
More Jobs: The legal industry picked up 1,000 jobs in December, The Am Law Daily reports. The sector now has 7,800 more people than it did at the end of 2011. Gun Control: The White House is ...
The plaintiffs in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the next major Supreme Court case attacking campaign finance regulation, have hired Erin Murphy, a protege of former solicitor general Paul ...