The ABA Journal Blawg 100

Wow! It's crazy that we're already on our eighth Blawg 100. Every year, we find ourselves behind the eight ball as we struggle to rack up a great list and choose new nominees for our now 30-blog-strong Hall of Fame. No, we don't just go through the 4,000-plus blogs in…

Dec 1, 2014 4:40 AM CST

Lawyers and judges face hurdles in struggle to cope with influx of young immigrants

Artesia, New Mexico, sits in the state's southeast corner, about a three-hour drive from El Paso, Texas, and nearly four hours from Albuquerque. Its 11,301 residents' major employers are the oil industry, the local public school system and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. From a complex that used to…

Dec 1, 2014 4:30 AM CST

From Playgrounds to Battlegrounds: Chicago teens tell how guns affected them and their neighborhoods

For five years, teenage sisters J'Doria and Jari Taylor lived on a tree-lined street of brick homes in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood, and there they grew familiar with the sound of gunfire. The girls didn't need police statistics to tell them they were surrounded by violence, but those statistics support…

Nov 1, 2014 5:25 AM CDT

No Fracking Way: Towns across the country are stopping the big energy industry

On a hot June summer day this year, residents from the small farming town of Dryden, in upstate New York, gathered in front of the local courthouse to celebrate. The state's highest court had just ruled that their town could ban oil and gas development, including a controversial drilling method…

Nov 1, 2014 5:15 AM CDT

Unwanted Guests

Mark Ryavec lives in a beautifully restored duplex in Venice Beach, the artsy beachfront neighborhood of Los Angeles. He's about half a mile from the shore and even closer to Abbot Kinney Boulevard, a trendy artery filled with pricey restaurants and boutiques. Depending on which real estate website you consult,…

Nov 1, 2014 5:00 AM CDT

Probationers’ Prison: Privatized supervision becomes a spiral of added fees, jail time

Tom Barrett trained as a pharmacist in the Army in the mid-1980s and continued the work after leaving the service in 1990, holding his last job with a national drugstore chain in Augusta, Georgia. His expertise did not lend immunity to certain pitfalls. Barrett grew addicted to a steady supply…

Oct 1, 2014 5:50 AM CDT

Too Many Lawyers? Not Here. In rural America, lawyers are few and far between

Wishek, North Dakota, is 90 minutes southeast of Bismarck and roughly six hours from either Minneapolis-Saint Paul or Winnipeg, Manitoba. Settled by ethnic Germans fleeing Russia, it’s a farm community on the opposite end of the state from North Dakota’s oil boom. As a result, Wishek hasn’t seen the influx…

Oct 1, 2014 5:40 AM CDT

Thou Shalt Not Cheat: The lawyer who took down Lance Armstrong is on a mission

Oct 1, 2014 5:30 AM CDT

Looking back on Zubulake, 10 years later

Sep 1, 2014 10:30 AM CDT

Prisoner exonerations are at an all-time high, and it’s not because of DNA testing

Sep 1, 2014 10:20 AM CDT

12 movies with pivotal lessons featuring lawyers

Movies transport us. They take us to different times and places, bringing laughter in one moment and tears in the next. But no matter how outlandish the plot, at their core movies examine the human condition. We tell stories about ourselves to ourselves, even if the characters are ostensibly aliens…

Aug 1, 2014 10:40 AM CDT

Schools start to rethink zero tolerance policies

Aug 1, 2014 10:30 AM CDT

How countries are successfully using the law to get looted cultural treasures back

For two decades, a pair of monumental statues guarded the entrance to the Southeast Asian galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. These days, all that remains of them are two faint patches on the floor where they stood until a year ago. On May 20,…

Jul 1, 2014 10:40 AM CDT

Designing your law office to save money and boost productivity—without sacrificing style

Jul 1, 2014 10:30 AM CDT

An interview with Judge Richard A. Posner

Jul 1, 2014 10:20 AM CDT