Your blogger (far right) with Sen. Patrick Leahy at the confirmation hearing for Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Photo by Diego Radzinschi
Launched in September 2007, Washington Briefs is a reported blog on legal affairs in the nation’s capital. It’s written by Lawrence Hurley, who has covered legal affairs in Washington since 2005. He is currently the legal reporter for Greenwire. For a couple of years before that he was a full-time member of the Supreme Court press corps, representing the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Before making the move to Washington, he covered Maryland law and politics for the (Baltimore) Daily Record. He began his career in the United Kingdom, his native country, in 1999. He has also written for the Baltimore Sun, Guardian America, Baltimore City Paper, and California Lawyer, among others. Hurley is a contributor to the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (Yale University Press, 2009).
Greenwire can only be accessed by subscribers but selected stories are available free here. The Daily Journal site can also only be accessed by subscribers, but some stories were re-posted here.
Endgame in Ecuador:
A three-part May 2011 Greenwire series reporting from Ecuador on the long-running oil pollution case against Texaco/Chevron can be read in its entirety here.
Other Work
Print/online:
California Lawyer: February 2012, cover story on the Chevron/Ecuador case.
California Lawyer, January 2012, feature on ineffective assistance of counsel
Baltimore Sun, April 2009, op-ed on judicial nominations and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Guardian America, October 2007 news story on George W. Bush judicial nominee.
Baltimore City Paper (archive)
Radio:
KCRW (Los Angeles), Which Way LA?, June 2010, discussing the Supreme Court’s ruling in Doe v. Reed. Available here.
KQED (San Francisco), Forum, June 2009, discussing Justice Souter’s retirement. Available here.
KCRW (Los Angeles), Which Way LA?, May 2009, discussing medical marijuana and pregnancy discrimination cases. Available here.
