Newest Issue - October 2014

In rural America, there are job opportunities and a need for lawyers

Features

• Privatized probation becomes a spiral of added fees and jail time
• The lawyer who took down Lance Armstrong is on a mission to end the culture of cheating

President's Letter

• New commission will help the ABA establish justice for the 21st century

Letters

• Letters: More movie tips

The National Pulse

• Law enforcement's latest highway tech speeds up info-gathering, but critics say it violates privacy
• Lawyers from dissolved firms may now keep clients, courts say

Business of Law

• Smaller staffs are expected to hold bigger jobs as firms redefine their work
• Lawyer Career Spa aims to soothe and stir the legal mind
• How profitable are alternative fee arrangements?
• After playing his ACES, GC Jeffrey Carr sits out a round
• Get the most out of PowerPoint and Keynote with the 'Presenter View'
• Webcast site is good for drumming up business

Precedents

• Oct. 6, 1958: Quiz show hearings begin

The Practice

• 10 tips for better legal writing

Opening Statements

• Divers' bar association helps preserve marine environment
• Alabama attorney spends a year in Uganda helping to fight land grabs
• US creates new office to harmonize the global patent system
• Video evidence is the latest defense to rape charges

Supreme Court Report

• Inmate's right to wear a beard is among cases coming up this SCOTUS term

Your ABA

• Law school accreditation standards get update after 6 years of effort
• Americans don't see their issues as legal matters, study says
• The Magna Carta reaches celebrity status as its 800th anniversary nears
• Outgoing President Silkenat delivers impassioned plea to address gun violence
• Hacking takes center stage as a tool to improve access to justice
• Report links stand-your-ground laws to higher homicide rates
• ABA Announcements

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