Newest Issue - January 2019

Prisons are housing mental health patients who've committed no crimes

Features

• Lawyers look for the next blockbuster as literary agents
• Guardians of the Sixth Amendment
• Ross Award winner sees the honor in public defenders' work
• Still There in the Ashes

President's Letter

• Goals for us all: promoting civility and protecting justice

Letters

• Letters: Attacks on the press

The National Pulse

• California police release true-crime podcast in hopes the public can help find a fugitive
• More lawmakers are considering banning gay and trans ‘panic defenses’

Business of Law

• How are law schools using virtual reality tools in classrooms?
• University of California at Irvine School of Law leaders reflect on first decade
• California’s new data privacy law could change how companies do business in the Golden State

Precedents

• A tale of two silver markets—and two disasters

The Practice

• Da Vinci’s code: Lawyers can draw valuable lessons from the master in Walter Isaacson’s 'Leonardo da Vinci'
• Plain talk: A conversation on simplicity with Rudolf Flesch
• Is recording others legal, and is it ethical?
• Attorney suicide: What every lawyer needs to know

Opening Statements

• Birth rights: Reproductive justice is a growing practice area
• 10 Questions: This single mother of 5 overcame a lifetime of obstacles to become a lawyer
• Law school tackles police reform
• This lawyer's blindness led him to a tech-focused law practice

Supreme Court Report

• Liquor store war: Should a giant wine and spirits retailer be subject to state residency requirements?

Your ABA

• Working toward well-being: Tools help lawyers and legal employers deal with substance-abuse disorders
• When things go wrong, immigrants serving in the military look to Margaret Stock
• Appellate attorney writes Harper Lee Prize-winning novel
• ABA Notices - January
• ABA Notices - February

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