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Here at FindLaw, we understand the pressures of being a legal professional - most of us are recovering lawyers - so we want to help by tossing you that preferred life preserver of the legal profession, the short list. Today’s offering: The Federal Circuit’s latest addition, Richard Taranto.

The Senate is slowly filling the vacancies (and pending vacancies) on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week, senators confirmed Richard Taranto as the appellate court’s newest judge. On Friday, Judge Taranto was sworn in. (Beware the Ides of March no more, eh Judge?)

David Smith thinks his lost legal career is worth $5 million.

Too bad the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals thinks that he can't bring his federal claims.

The Federal Circuit has twice ruled that human genes can be patented. Now, it's the Supreme Court's turn to decide.

Last week, the Court granted certiorari in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.

The adjudication of intellectual property issues is increasingly complex, thanks to globalization. So it’s high time that the judicial minds came together to discuss the issues.

That’s what led to a three-day conference in Beijing from May 28 to 30. The United States-China Intellectual Property Adjudication Conference was held at Renmin University in Beijing and had over 1,200 attendees, including business leaders, government officials and jurists.

If you missed the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal’s Judicial Conference this year, you can still benefit from it.

The Federal Circuit has posted information on the Conference online. You can look through the agenda of the 2012 Judicial Conference as well as download some reading material from the breakout sessions.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll break down the conference by practice area and bring you the information you need. The breakout sessions covered four key Federal Circuit practice groups: International Trade, the Court of Federal Claims, the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.

Today’s practice area is International Trade.

It’s graduation season and that means that it’s time for judges to be recognized at commencement ceremonies.

This year, two judges from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals have been recognized during commencement ceremonies: Judge Arthur J. Gajarsa and Chief Judge Randall R. Rader.

The vote is in for the Federal Circuit’s recipient of the Professionalism Award by the American Inns of Court.

The American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for 2012 goes to Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Timothy B. Dyk.

Edward DuMont won't be rounding out the judicial lineup for the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. DuMont has asked President Obama to withdraw his name from consideration for the final opening on the Federal Circuit bench.

DuMont isn't the first Obama nominee to make such a request this year; Berkeley Law professor Goodwin Liu, now an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, withdrew his nomination in May after Republicans filibustered his confirmation vote.

What went wrong?

The Senate unanimously confirmed Judge Evan Wallach for the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday in a 99-0 vote. There was no debate on Wallach's nomination.

Judge Wallach enjoyed a relatively short confirmation process; President Obama nominated Wallach for the Federal Circuit vacancy in July. He is Obama's 23rd nominee to be confirmed to a Circuit Court of Appeals.

Wallach will bring over 15 years' judicial experience to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. He has presided over more than 230 cases to verdict or judgment.

Electronic discovery is not cheap, particularly in patent cases.

In response to rising electronic discovery costs, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Randall Rader recently announced the Model Order on E-Discovery in Patent Cases (Model Order).

There are five main areas of electronic discovery costs: