Skadden, Proskauer Get Creative to Recruit Women and Minority Law Students    In a bid to establish early and deep ties with diverse law students, the firms have unveiled new programs intended to                                                                                          Read the full story at The National Law Journal

Conservative Samuel Alito Channels Liberal Icon Thurgood Marshall on Religion    "It is remarkable how the politics of religious accommodation have changed," one lawyer remarked                                                                                                                              Read the full story at The National Law Journal

Android War: Google Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Take Up Appeal of Oracle's Copyright Victory                                                                                                                       Lawyers for Google wrote that if Oracle's win at the federal circuit is allowed to stand, it would "upend the longstanding                                                                                           Read the full story at The Recorder 

Grassley Aide Mike Davis Reflects on Combative Kavanaugh Confirmation               “I'm not going to apologize for anything, says Mike Davis, former chief counsel for nominations at the Senate                                                                                                          Read the full story at The National Law Journal

What's Up With the 'VP of Legal' Title?                                                                            Julie Q. Brush, author of The Lawyer Whisperer blog, takes a look at the reporting lines and salary range for the in-house legal title that's something of a 'GC light' position                                                                                                                                         Read the full story at The Recorder 

USPTO Addresses the Wonderland of Strained Analogies                                           The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, on Jan. 7, issued new examination guidelines to address the often-criticized unpredictability with determining patent-eligibility of abstract ideas after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank (2014)              Read the full story at The Recorder