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• Client unfit for a King
• Clash over Court renovation
• Sparks fly over outage
• Toyota claims survive; government report excluded from MDL
• THE PRACTICE: Practical steps in responding to a data breach
• OPINION: Keeping health care affordable
• OPINION: In-house pro bono: States must remove the handcuffs
• THE NLJ 250

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Client unfit for a King	Top
There is a range of strategies that big law firms have used when representing unpopular clients. Some don't give an inch. Others try to create a buffer. And in the rare extreme is the decision to drop a client.
Clash over Court renovation	Top
A confrontation between the construction company doing the work and the government agency that oversees the project is largely over claims that the Court's insistence on quiet and decorum during the project caused millions of dollars in extra labor costs and delay.
Sparks fly over outage	Top
A power outage in June 2008 left downtown Washington without electricity for hours. The blackout snarled morning rush hour and forced a number of offices to close, affecting as many as 12,000 customers of the Potomac Electric Power Co.
Toyota claims survive; government report excluded from MDL	Top
A federal judge has refused to grant Toyota Motor Corp.'s motion to dismiss a consolidated class action involving sudden acceleration claims, concluding in a tentative ruling that the plaintiffs had raised sufficient injuries to move forward.
THE PRACTICE: Practical steps in responding to a data breach	Top
Most states require companies to notify individuals if there's a reasonable basis to believe personal data were compromised.
OPINION: Keeping health care affordable	Top
With state and federal legislators urging substantial budget cuts to agencies, the public may need to increase its reliance on private antitrust enforcement even further.
OPINION: In-house pro bono: States must remove the handcuffs	Top
Corporate lawyers should be allowed to provide pro bono services, unsupervised, in states where they work, even if not admitted there.
THE NLJ 250	Top
Our annual survey of the nation's largest law firms shows that Big Law continued to shed lawyers at a brisk clip in 2010. Nearly 2,900 fewer lawyers worked for the 250 top firms last year. That's in addition to the approximately 6,600 attorneys who departed in 2009. In the 34 years the NLJ has been surveying large firms to gather headcount numbers, there have never been multiyear declines of this magnitude.

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