By Marcia Coyle | November 9, 2017
The U.S. Justice Department's request that the Supreme Court consider sanctions against lawyers who advocated for an immigrant teenager at the center of an abortion case has raised questions about the government's motivation and threatened to jeopardize the reputation of the solicitor's office before the justices. Former Justice Department attorneys called the government's action in the Supreme Court “extraordinary” and said they had no memory of a similar Supreme Court petition.
By Sue Reisinger | November 9, 2017
Blanco, a longtime prosecutor, is headed to FinCEN from the U.S. Department of Justice.
By Tony Mauro | November 9, 2017
Theodore Wells Jr. of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison faced off against Donald Ayer of Jones Day Wednesday night in a reenactment of the boxing champ's 1971 Supreme Court fight for conscientious objector status.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 8, 2017
A federal judicial body plans to look into rules changes concerning disclosure of third-party financing of litigation—a move praised by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce—but the breadth of that probe could be limited.
By Scott Flaherty | November 8, 2017
Tuesday's elections included a couple of victories for candidates with Big Law pedigrees, as Venable's Justin Fairfax won the lieutenant governor race in Virginia and Quinn Emanuel's Jenny Durkan was chosen to be Seattle's next mayor.
By Erin Mulvaney | November 8, 2017
Jones Day lawyers are seeking hundreds of thousands in legal fees from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying federal regulators unfairly targeted CVS Pharmacy Inc. for alleged employment abuses that no judge sustained. Eric Dreiband, the lead partner for CVS in the litigation, is the Trump administration's pick to lead the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The dispute provides a peek into the billing practices of Jones Day.
By Cogan Schneier | November 8, 2017
Judge Amy Berman Jackson indicated she would issue the order in a hearing last week.
By Miriam Rozen | November 7, 2017
The New York Times said late Tuesday that it had ended its relationship with David Boies and his firm after new details emerged about Boies' work for Harvey Weinstein.
By Cogan Schneier | November 7, 2017
The groups say Katsas, a White House lawyer and former Jones Day partner, is unable to be independent from the executive branch.
By Cheryl Miller | November 7, 2017
"The IRS claims it is necessary and within its power to make administrative determinations that a person is criminally culpable under federal drug laws. Such a claim of power by the IRS is unprecedented," Green Solution's lawyers wrote in the U.S. Supreme Court petition.
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