Seeking to defend itself aggressively in a hard-fought age discrimination suit brought by a former $88,000-a-year paralegal in its Washington, D.C., office, Mayer Brown is seeking to discover portions of…
When the feds search an individual’s e-mail under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, they don’t have to notify the account-holder, a federal judge has ruled.
Jury selection began today in the case of the slaying of Chandra Levy, who at the time of her disappearance on May 1, 2001, was a 24-year-old intern with the…
Legal observers are agog over two very different versions of a ruling in a habeas corpus case ordering the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who was held nearly eight…
A young Department of Justice prosecutor committed suicide over the weekend, after a year under criminal investigation, along with senior members of the DOJ, concerning the department’s mishandling of the…
A former president of the Virginia Bar Association came out the loser when he sued a former client for additional attorney fees and the client fought back, using expert testimony…
Arent Fox doesn’t have any direct role in a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit filed against former partner Joseph Price by the widow of an attorney found slain at the…
Although BigLaw firms in Washington, D.C., weren’t as hard-hit by the economic downturn as New York counterparts focused on banking and financial matters, many are still struggling to find solid…
A former Arnold & Porter associate is facing additional counts of possessing child pornography after a police review of materials found in a search of his home.
In a three-paragraph order today, a federal appeals court has temporarily lifted a district judge’s preliminary ban on government funding of some research on stem cells from human embryos.
A new law firm with offices in Minneapolis, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., will focus on issues related to electronic discovery, privacy and data retention.
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