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President Barack Obama’s nominees to the National Labor Relations Board — an agency that has come under fire by critics as well as the Supreme Court in recent months — will face a tough confirmation process in the new Senate, a top aide said last week.

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Private sector workplace discrimination claims reached record-high levels in fiscal year 2010, according to the latest figures released by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2010, a total of 99,922 employment bias claims were filed, an increase of 6,645 new claims over fiscal 2009, according to the agency. The 7 percent increase brought the agency to the highest number in its 45-year history.

The case in which Justice Elena Kagan asked her first oral argument question as a Supreme Court justice yielded the first opinion written by the Court’s newest associate justice.

At the U.S. Supreme Court, 2010 was an historic year that brought not only some of the most significant rulings in decades in areas such as the Sixth Amendment and labor law, but also saw historic changes to the court itself.

The recent gains by congressional Republicans — capturing control of the House and slimming the Democrats' majority in the Senate — mean that 2011 could be the year for the kind of change that is the bane of trial attorney groups: changes to tort law.

During a recent discussion in Boston, retired Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and David Souter chatted with veteran Supreme Court journalist Linda Greenhouse about how the public image of judges —including Supreme Court justices — has changed over the years.

A bill passed by Congress would extend FDIC protection of Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts into 2011, closing an inadvertent loophole created earlier this year by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether plaintiffs alleging negligence under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act must meet stricter standards on the cause of an injury.

The lack of tech savvy among justices of the Supreme Court has been well documented. Now Justice Stephen Breyer admits that the concept of Facebook confounds him.

More employees who claim that their employers have unlawfully retaliated against them are fighting back — in court.

Technology may advance rapidly, but the law is generally slow to change. Still, when we take a look at the big picture over the last several years, patent law has undergone several important changes that likely affect the way engineering ...