Ascent to the bench: “Writing a dissent is fun,” Judge Sri Srinivasan of the D.C. Circuit said this week, because “you don’t have to write the dry stuff at the beginning. You get right to the punchy stuff.” Srinivasan, Judge Raymond Kethledge of the Sixth Circuit and Justice Elena Kagan spoke Wednesday at Stanford Law School about their rise to the bench, law clerks and appellate advocacy.

Assail: A federal trial judge in Washington has refused to sign off on a deferred prosecution agreement between the Justice Department and the Dutch aerospace company Fokkers, the NLJ reports.

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