Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, will be awarded the American Bar Association’s highest honor, the ABA Medal, given to lawyers who have “rendered conspicuous service to the cause of American jurisprudence.”
Aug 1, 2018 12:15 AM CDT
Bryan Stevenson has made a career out of representing “the broken people,” as he put it in his autobiography,
Just Mercy. His Equal Justice Initiative, founded in 1994, focuses on representing people who may have been denied a fair trial because of their youth, race or other circumstances.
Jul 6, 2018 1:55 PM CDT
This August, lawyers from around the country will come to Chicago for the ABA Annual Meeting. Wondering whether to make the trip yourself?
In this special bonus episode of Asked and Answered, we’re joined by ABA President Hilarie Bass and Marty Balogh of the ABA meetings and travel department.
Jun 11, 2018 7:00 AM CDT
“There’s a lot of very innovative thinking by staff and volunteer leaders alike going on right now with regard to how we can deliver more efficiently, effectively and competently both the services that the association delivers to its members and the services ABA members deliver to the public,” says Judy Perry Martinez, of counsel with Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn in New Orleans.
May 1, 2018 12:50 AM CDT
The American Bar Association’s new president, Hilarie Bass, related her experiences in the organization and touted its ability to enhance public confidence in the justice system.
Oct 1, 2017 1:50 AM CDT
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Incoming ABA President Hilarie Bass (center) attends the House of Delegates meeting in New York City. Photo by Len Irish
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Ludwig van Beethoven composed an ode to joy. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote an ode to the west wind. Connecticut attorney Michael Koskoff wrote an ode to the jury trial—and it became the movie Marshall, starring Chadwick Boseman as a young Thurgood Marshall.
Oct 1, 2017 1:40 AM CDT
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Photo of actor Chadwick Boseman as a young Thurgood Marshall courtesy of Starlight Media and Open Road Films
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John D. Feerick, winner of the 2017 ABA Medal, called on lawyers to help close the justice gap by volunteering to help those in need and by supporting the Legal Services Corp.
Oct 1, 2017 1:30 AM CDT
What damage might Donald Trump do to the press, and what legal options do journalists have available to defend their speech? And how might the administration fight the leaks to the media that appear daily?
Oct 1, 2017 1:20 AM CDT
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Annual meeting program panelists discussed freedom of the press and the current president: George Freeman of the Media Law Resource Center, Floyd Abrams of the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Jim Rutenberg from the New York Times, David Walsh of the Sunday Times, Laura Lee Prather of Haynes and Boone, and Tom Clare of Clare Locke. Photo by Len Irish
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“If Biloxi, Mississippi, can figure out a way not to jail people for fines and fees, and to have a fair bail system, do you really think that other cities in America can’t?”
Oct 1, 2017 1:10 AM CDT
Despite decades of lip service to the importance of diversity in the legal community, the upper ranks of most law firms fail to reflect the gender and ethnic makeup of practitioners or the population at large.
Oct 1, 2017 12:50 AM CDT
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Panelists Jeff Smith and Lynn Charytan from Comcast Cable, Rick Palmore from Dentons and Hilary Preston of Vinson & Elkins. Photo by Len Irish.
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The ABA House of Delegates approved several criminal justice resolutions calling for changes that would affect poor and homeless people, juveniles and those denied the right to effective counsel.
Oct 1, 2017 12:40 AM CDT
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ABA President Hilarie Bass has chosen homeless youth as the pro bono project for her presidency. She says resolving their common legal needs makes a real difference in their lives.
Sep 1, 2017 1:15 AM CDT
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Photo of Hilarie Bass by Tom Salyer.
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Diversity at law firms, especially at the higher levels of partnership, continues to be a hot topic of discussion. But is that all that it is, a discussion item?
Aug 25, 2017 12:26 PM CDT
Corrected: On Tuesday, the ABA House of Delegates voted to urge U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to treat courthouses as sensitive locations and to…
Aug 15, 2017 2:47 PM CDT