News and notes

1. Jack Abramoff is reporting to jail. (CNN)

2. Steve Chaykin and Dan Gelber are reporting to Akerman Senterfit. (Daily Business Review)

3. On Stearns Weaver's motion, Judge Gold is stopping claims services from the unlicensed practice of law in the Exxon case. (DBR)

4. Patagonian toothfish in federal court. (Miami Herald)

5. The 11th Circuit has fast tracked the Government's appeal in Padilla. (Miami Herald)

6. Santiago Alvarez was sentenced to nearly four years in prison and Osvaldo Mitat to 3 years. (Sun-Sentinel)