Newest Issue - August 2015

Why Hollywood loves lawyers

Features

• How the 'Golden Decade' of legal films still influences us today
• An admitted murderer seeks justice in the death of his daughter
• Have we reached the end of the partnership model?
• 100 years of law at the movies

President's Letter

• A Year of Progress: ABA advances work on innovation in legal services and other areas

Letters

• Letters: Hard-won perspective

The National Pulse

• Courts are giving reduced terms to many child-porn defendants
• Wary copyright owners are cracking down on fan-created artworks

Business of Law

• Traveling to dangerous areas can leave lawyers vulnerable
• Chicago attorneys get top legal billing for festival gigs
• 3 new products to help with client intake
• ABA summit discusses new paths for providing legal services
• Client survey shows nearly two-thirds are using alternative fee arrangements
• 2 groups seek to solve law firms' security issues

Report from Governmental Affairs

• ABA cites health and well-being of asylum-seeking mothers and children

Precedents

• August 5, 1981: Reagan fires air traffic controllers

The Practice

• How trials are more like plot-driven movies than character-driven novels
• The Bluebook's 20th edition prompts many musings from Bryan Garner
• Ethics panel backs judges' letters asking lawyers to consider community service

Opening Statements

• Judge's movie night brings the court and the public closer together
• Planned documentary will look at the shortcomings of the public defender system
• NYC lawyer targets strip clubs in FLSA violation claim cases
• Meet the judge who has become a national sensation as 'Bongo Lady'

Supreme Court Report

• Supreme Court's Abercrombie ruling marks a setback for employers

Your ABA

• New ABA program adds a leisure element to networking opportunities for members
• Royalty joins the ABA in marking the 800th birthday of the Magna Carta
• Political powers blunt good law, human rights lawyer says
• Speakers consider the grand sweep of the Great Charter
• UK trade envoy: 'I'd give anything' for the ABA to work with the Iraqi judiciary
• What can US, UK lawyers learn from each other?
• Laws need to catch up to high-speed trading
• Corporations have a role in (and gain benefits from) promoting the rule of law
• ABA Announcements

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