A federal judge is refusing to allow a man to represent himself in a trafficking case, saying he has tried to manipulate the system by creating false conflicts among his lawyers to delay the case. Gregory Sitzmann was indicted in 2008 on charges he took part in a long-running cocaine distribution conspiracy.

The California Supreme Court has declined to rescue a lawyer whose law practice has been taken over by the State Bar in litigation accusing him of a scheme to defraud desperate homeowners. Philip Kramer was one of four lawyers that California Attorney General Kamala Harris sued in August.

So often when a scandal breaks, the first question the public asks is: Where were the lawyers? At Penn State, the answer seems to be: Not there.

A Kramer Levin attorney’s tweet about a TSA agent’s note commenting on a “personal item” in her luggage sparked a media storm. It also highlights how law firms grapple with where to draw the line when it comes to how their lawyers use social media.

Although the struggling recovery must still be reckoned with, feedback from the technology chiefs who responded to American Lawyer’s annual survey on law firm technology and follow-up interviews with nearly a dozen of them reveal that the main focus has moved from dollars to data.