The ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence Trial Skills Institute helps attorneys who represent survivors of domestic violence improve their advocacy and litigation skills. Participants act as counsel for a party in a hypothetical case involving domestic violence and develop theory, opening statements, closing arguments, direct examinations and cross-examinations.
A college professor with a passion for labor and employment law is the winner of the 2023 ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction. Kiren Dosanjh Zucker won the $5,000 prize for her short story, “Memory of a Braid.”
Attorneys can engage in office-sharing arrangements with other lawyers but must take care to ensure they comply with legal ethics rules. Everyone should avoid discussing cases in common areas, and lawyers may need to have separate lobby or waiting areas to ensure confidentiality. Other possible measures include installing privacy screens on computers, locking down computers when not in use and providing training to staff about ensuring confidentiality.
The legal services sector added 5,100 jobs in June, nearing the 10-year high-water mark set almost a year ago.
Lawyer Rudy Giuliani should be disbarred for making “malicious and meritless” claims of election fraud in a lawsuit that challenged the results of the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania, according to a hearing committee in Washington, D.C.
An Oklahoma state court judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, ending what could be the survivors’ best hope for justice for one of the worst racial terror attacks in U.S. history.
A federal appeals court on Saturday allowed Tennessee to enforce a law that bans gender-affirming surgeries, puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors. But the appeals court acknowledged “we may be wrong” and expedited the appeal.
The new management at Twitter contends Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz exploited the social media company and violated its fiduciary duties by charging $90 million in fees—including a “gargantuan” success fee—before Elon Musk’s takeover.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide the constitutionality of a federal law that bans gun ownership by people subject to domestic-violence restraining orders.
To combat the American public’s loss of faith in the intelligence community, agencies must make reforms and create a culture of compliance and concern, according to panelists at “Lost Trust: Politics and Intelligence,” a webinar hosted by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security.
