Newest Issue - October 2013

Who's eating law firms' lunch?

Features

• For young people, transgender life means stress and confusion over restrooms, sports and harassment
• Judge Jed Rakoff’s stance on the SEC deals draws fire, praise--and change

President's Letter

• Legal Access Job Corps will place law grads in areas with unmet legal needs

Letters

• Letters: Healer at Law

The National Pulse

• Miami-Dade's overburdened PD's office may decline new clients, Florida court says
• Merchants say loss of credit card ‘swipe fees’ violates their 1st Amendment rights

Business of Law

• Labor lawyer lands a labor of love—planting mediation firmly in India
• ABA is looking for a few good lawyers to help members of the military
• Rough winter ahead, in terms of law firm growth
• Attorney meshes her yoga and law practice
• Some solos say advertising in the Yellow Pages is still worth it

Precedents

• Oct. 21, 2003: Florida enters the Terri Schiavo case

Opening Statements

• Summer camp offers adults a detox from their digital devices
• New York Starbucks workers sue over the company tip policy
• Law prof creates textbook and course around hit show 'The Wire'
• Scorned as 'copyright troll,' poet fights back in verse
• Hearsay: Social media remorse

Supreme Court Report

• Campaign funding and affirmative action come back before the Supreme Court

Your ABA

• Attorney general's speech reflects ABA push against overcriminalization
• Legal ed council offers choice on law professors' job security
• Ex-secretary of state Hillary Clinton calls for voting rights action
• House of Delegates supports key measure to fight human trafficking
• New ABA President James Silkenat sets his agenda
• Technology advances will put mobility into trials, doing more for less
• Remembering ex-ABA leader Bert Early, whose 'legacy of service and achievement will endure'
• Award-winning reporter John Gibeaut dies at 61
• ABA Announcements

Obiter Dicta

• Situations you thought had vanished may rise to remind you that the law never forgets

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