Newest Issue - May 2011

Flunking Civics: Why America's Kids Know So Little

Features

• Battle of Atlanta: Fight over a Downtown Homeless Shelter Strains Some Down-Home Ties
• A Trove of Historic Jazz Recordings has Found a Home in Harlem, But You Can’t Hear Them

President's Letter

• Truth in Legal Education Will Help Prospective Law Students Make Informed Decisions

Letters

• Letters to the Editor: Income Tracks

The National Pulse

• North Carolina's Death Row Inmates Let Statistics Back Up Bias Claims
• ‘Sext’ Education: States Look for Ways to Chastise Teens for Bawdy Cellphone Shots

Business of Law

• Solos Make a Splash with Mobile Ads
• The Lowdown on LPM: System Stirs Buzz, But Does it have Bite?
• Old Firm Ties: Alumni Networks Are Social Media with Benefits
• Declutter Home Hard Drives and Aid Performance
• Site Lets Startups, Lawyers Interact

Precedents

• May 15, 1911: High Court Dissolves Standard Oil

Opening Statements

• Emerging Technologies at Odds with Long-Held Privacy Tenets
• Artist-Turned-Lawyer Highlights Typographic Detail in Legal Docs
• Long-Lost Settlement Funds Are Finally (and Charitably) Disbursed
• Librarian's Course Seeks to Entice Attorneys Who Value Rare Law Books
• SCOTUS in 17 Syllables: Houston Lawyer's High Court Haiku
• Anti-Shariah Bills Under Review

Supreme Court Report

• Dead Precedents: The Justices Overrule, But They Often Do So Stealthily

McElhaney on Litigation

• You’re a Lawyer Now, So You Can Stop Sounding Like One

Your ABA

• Folks Still Find Lawyers the Old-Fashioned Way
• ABA Task Force Builds Its Case to Broaden Support for Cash-Strapped Courts
• Despite Criticism, a Review of ABA Standards for Law Schools Is Moving Forward
• John Adams Gets His Day: The First Lawyer-President Set a Standard for Representing Unpopular Causes
• Fending for the Elderly: ABA Sees Elder Justice Act as Partial Solution
• ABA Treasurer's Report: Fiscal Year Ending Aug. 31, 2010
• Lawyers Giving Back
• ABA Announcements

Obiter Dicta

• Relentless Reprobates Go All Out to Make a Point

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