Wake Up Call: A Full Run-Down On Reactions to Obama SCOTUS Nominee Garland

• Meet Merrick Garland: he joined Arnold & Porter in 1981 as an associate litigator, made partner by 1985 but in 1989 left to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia. He went on to rise to the top of the U.S. Justice Department before landing on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. in 1997, where he is now chief judge. (Big Law Business)

• Greenberg Traurig and London-based law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner have ended their merger discussions , with Greenberg Traurig’s executive chair Richard Rosenbaum noting in a statement that “we do not grow for growth’s sake.” (Big Law ...