For three weeks, the Wisconsin Senate has been unable to take action on a controversial measure that strips public employee unions of...
Illinois today became the 16th state to abolish the death penalty when Governor Pat Quinn signed into law a bill passed last...
Last month the justice department announced that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court, under orders from...
S. Hazard Gillespie, who has been a prominent attorney in Davis Polk & Wardwell and was formerly a U.S. attorney, passed away...
Chevron was ordered by a court in Ecuador last month to pay almost $9 billion to Ecuador to clean up alleged pollution...
I have never been a particularly big fan of Charlie Sheen – his father Martin is by far the superior actor in...
Senator John Ensign, the junior senator from Nevada, announced that he will not seek reelection in 2012. For those keeping score, Senator...
Looking at the broad picture, the economic recovery appears to finally be taking hold in the labor market. Modest gains in employment...
The same federal judge that ruled that President Obama’s health care law was unconstitutional, Judge Roger Vinson, has now made another ruling...
Reish & Reicher, a boutique firm in LA specializing in ERISA cases, is shutting its doors as of March 15.  Eleven attorneys, including...
Bullivant Houser Bailey shut down its office in Sacramento this week and the majority of attorneys there moved over to Locke Lord. ...
Like so many of its counterparts, WilmerHale announced that associates will receive a spring bonus to be paid on April 29. Most...
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