Newest Issue - September 2017

Legal Rebels: Pattern of Progress

Features

• Pay Up: Female lawyers are working for income fairness—by suing their firms
• Afghan and Iraqi interpreters for the US are caught in a deadly immigration waiting game
• The Holocaust, international law and a family's fate intersect in one Eastern European city

Web Extras

• Philippe Sands: From London to Lviv

President's Letter

• Vision of Success: Future of the legal profession requires change the ABA can provide

Letters

• Letters: Dissecting Fake News

The National Pulse

• Trump administration reverses federal plans to phase out use of private prison facilities
• Stifling Speech: Government invokes doctrine to silence expression it doesn’t like

Business of Law

• Ask Daliah: Ways to record, bill and save those minutes at work
• UVA professor takes over part of civil procedure guidebooks, joins Supreme Court committee
• Legal Services Corp., Microsoft plan voice-response portals for legal advice

Report from Governmental Affairs

• ABA opposes legislation that could endanger unaccompanied immigrant children

Precedents

• Sept. 29, 1982: 7 Deaths Point to Cyanide-Laced Pain Reliever

The Practice

• Lawyers have to move on from witnesses who won't budge
• Some states now require all attorneys to report wrongful convictions
• Pro Tips on Speech Prep: How to enhance audience experience and make your points stick

Opening Statements

• Law Firm Hosts an Evening of Art Imitating Life
• Harper Lee Prize Goes to Boies Schiller Counsel: 12th book in series takes top honor
• How We Give 100 Percent
• 10 Questions: Dallas litigator Rachel Lindsay used her legal skills to find 'the one' on 'The Bachelorette'

Supreme Court Report

• Court rules on birth certificate designations for same-sex parents

Your ABA

• ABA president's goals focus on young people and the future
• Chicago associate protects the rights of at-risk travelers in the wake of the president’s ban
• ABA Announcements

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