Once Sidley Austin partner Ronald Flagg is sworn in as the District of Columbia Bar’s president-elect on June 25, he wants to start bringing the bar up to date on technology. Flagg, who will be president-elect for a year while Kim Keenan of the Keenan Firm serves as president, said the bar is behind on using listservs to bring lawyers with similar expertise together. “You’re probably thinking, ‘Oh, wow, listservs. Who doesn’t use listservs?’ ” But it’s not something that has been done as frequently as we would like,” Flagg said. Increasing communication, he said, is a way to get more people involved and to share information on the job market. — Jeff Jeffrey

Is the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court beginning to resemble a 1960s desegregation battle? Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) suggests it could head that way. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee spoke last week at the University of the District of Columbia’s law school. Leahy said there had been “shameless” attacks against Sotomayor, including the accusation that she supported a “Latino KKK.” He then recalled the confirmation hearing of Thurgood Marshall , who despite his status as a civil rights icon and U.S. solicitor general, faced questions along the lines of “Are you prejudiced against the white people of the South?” Leahy stopped just short of comparing Sotomayor’s critics — such as ex-Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who made the “Latino KKK” comment — to segregationists. “Give me a break. Let’s not go back to those kind of days,” Leahy said. — David Ingram

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