Ogden was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr before the Senate confirmed him as deputy attorney general in March. His practice included appellate litigation, including working with ...

The federal judge overseeing the $760 million settlement in a Native American class action expressed concern Tuesday over the selection of four banks in which the plaintiffs' lawyers want to invest ...

It was a tough morning at the Supreme Court for civil rights advocates, who are hoping the justices will uphold the pre-clearance provision of the Voting Rights Act. During oral arguments in Northwest ...

Margaret Colgate Love, a Washington-based lawyer and director of the ABA National Inventory of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction, used the example of a fictitious young man from Texas who ...

Marcia Coyle, chief Washington correspondent for The National Law Journal and a longtime U.S. Supreme Court reporter, has just emerged from the court's argument over the constitutionality of the ...

It's not all that surprising, but Gregory Craig, President Barack Obama's White House counsel, brought home quite a bit of money from Williams & Connolly last year. According to financial disclosure ...

Retired Justice David Souter implored lawyers attending the ABA annual meeting to revive effective civics education or face the “danger” of a nation that doesn’t value judicial independence because it ...

The end is in sight for the eminent domain cases the District brought against several landholders to make way for the new baseball stadium for the Washington Nationals. Originally, 24 landowners ...

A federal judge today in Washington said the State Department doesn't have to publicly disclose a cache of embassy cables even though the information is purportedly in the public domain via a document ...