Feast your eyes on our special section on litigation. We called around town, looking for some of the biggest cases involving D.C. lawyers, and we settled on five. Whatever your fancy, we've tried to accommodate it: Bankruptcy, white-collar crime, constitutional questions and antitrust cases are all represented. We’ve even got a story on the ongoing legal saga surrounding Duke University lacrosse team.
In our Influence section, check out Jeff Horwitz's story on the troubles over at GSP Consulting Corp., a Pittsburgh-based lobby shop started by two former staffers for then-Sen. Rick Santorum. The firm's federal practice appears to have run aground since the 2006 midterms. More than half of its 64 registered federal clients have fled. The firm has shed seven lobbyists, including two key Democrats with federal experience. And GSP’s ambitious expansion into cities in other states seems to have stalled.
We've also included a transcript of our Jan. 29 panel discussion with some of the city's legal leaders, including Maureen Dwyer, D.C. managing partner for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman; Richard Murphy, D.C. partner in charge for Sutherland Asbill & Brennan; Michael Nannes, chairman, Dickstein Shapiro; La Fonte Nesbitt, executive partner in the D.C. office of Holland & Knight; and Robert Ruyak, chairman of Howrey. The topic: the 2008 legal business forecast. Click here to find out what they had to say.
In our Points of View section, Alan Hirsch, a visiting professor of legal studies and constitutional law at Williams College, discusses why the government's "clean" interrogation techniques, when used on detainees, may produce dirty results.
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