Ronald Klain, a former partner of O’Melveny & Myers who served as chief of staff to vice president Al Gore, will now reportedly reprise that role as chief of staff…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has refused to dismiss a lawsuit by two nonprofit groups seeking recovery of possibly millions of White House e-mails.
Barack Obama is being urged to restore public confidence in the Justice Department by keeping politics out of decision-making and reforming the Office of Legal Counsel.
In a potential move that could change the landscape of the nation’s criminal justice system, president-elect Barack Obama reportedly has asked his advisers to put together a plan to close…
Barack Obama’s lawyer-laden transition team has prepared a list of 200 possible regulatory and policy changes he could quickly adopt using his executive authority. They include hot-button issues such as…
A Chicago judge who lives a few blocks from Barack Obama in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood was mugged on her front porch the evening before the election.
President-elect Barack Obama and his VP-elect Joe Biden wasted no time assembling their transition team, which features a number of attorneys. (Graduates of Harvard Law School, Nov 5, 2008 9:10 PM CST
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