Monica Goodling, the former Justice Department liaison to the White House, who resigned last month, will testify today before the House Judiciary Committee about the firings that have resulted in lawmakers' demands for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' to step down. The BLT’s own Jake McLure and Emma Schwartz will be there blogging. Check back for juicy tidbits.
In the meantime read this tasty morsel from fired U.S. attorney general from New Mexico David Iglesias, in which he calls on Gonzales to “cowboy up and do what's best for the American people you serve.” We were also impressed by his use of German. “What has become clear already is that the loyalty uber alles mentality has infected a wide swath of the Bush administration,” he writes before concluding that “loyalty is a virtue with limits.”
Facing resistance in their attempts to push the lobbying reform bill through Congress, House Democrats abandoned a promise to double the one-year ban on lobbying after members of Congress leave office and scrapped other key elements of the ethics package. With the legislation scheduled for a vote tomorrow, Democrats are trying to keep provisions that would require lobbyists to disclose campaign contributions they bundle and deliver to lawmakers. See the WP here and NYT here.
The latest round of BigLaw pay hikes is the “equivalent of applying a Band-Aid to a head wound,” according to Mark Harris, the founder of Axiom Legal, an 170-attorney shop that eschews the traditional law firm business model. See this story from the National Law Journal about firms with varying business structures that are trying to provide clients with lower rates and lawyers with a different work culture.
Female hammerhead sharks apparently can reproduce without having sex, but where’s the fun in that?
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