The American Bar Association's House of Delegates today voted to ask Congress to make it easier for federal judges to receive cost-of-living pay increases when other federal employees get them. Passage of the change would remove a continuing source of...

Greatest Deliberative Body: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) announced he was lifting his holds on more than 70 pending nominations, having successfully gotten the White House's attention concerning some Alabama projects he'd like to save, the Washington Post reports. In other...

"Georgetown Law's Lazarus Named to New Professorship": Tony Mauro has this post at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times."

With his longtime friend Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. in the audience, Georgetown University Law Center professor Richard Lazarus was officially installed last week as the new William J. Brennan Jr. professor of law at the school. Lazarus, a member...

Luring Laterals: We have a comprehensive package on lateral hiring among law firms nationwide, including a roundtable discussion with a legal recruiter and the chairs of top law firms. And there's an uptick in lateral hiring in big firms in...

Smile for the Cameras: Republicans who complained that President Obama did not live up to his promise of transparentcy in health care reform may get their wish. Obama has invited Republicans and Democrats to the White House to hash out...

WE WON EVERY SUPER BOWL PREDICTION WE MADE!We won our guaranteed super bowl coin toss lock. We picked the first team to score and how (Colts, fg). We picked the under. And most importantly we told you to take the Saints, forget the points and take the odds because the Saints as underdogs would win ...

As Toyota executives have been less than forthcoming about the issues surrounding the recalls, their consumers are becoming increasingly more agitated as many have invested in new, nice, and what they thought were safe cars, only to be fearful of driving them to the point that they are beginning to ...

The Times (London) reports: The Judicial Complaints Office is to look into a complaint by the National Secular Society that [Cherie] Blair, [the wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is a part-time judge] suspended a six-month jail sentence passed on Shamso Miah on the ground that he was dev ...

"D.C. Lawyer Will Defend Chicago's Gun Law Before Supreme Court": Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report. And yesterday's edition of The Daily Northwestern reported that "Possible changes to firearm ban will not affect Northwestern's private rules."