Newest Issue - March 2018

The dangers of digital things: Self-driving cars steer proposed laws on robotics and automation

Increased reliance on robotics, artificial intelligence and automation tests whether laws and regulations designed to protect those humans are sufficient or whether new laws are necessary.

Features

• Results may vary in legal research databases
• Blockchain-based initial coin offerings chart uncertain legal terrain

President's Letter

• Serving the Profession: The ABA fights for lawyers, legal rights and a better system of justice

Letters

• Letters: Fear factor

The National Pulse

• Abuses revealed of watchdog public-records laws
• Bail industry battles reforms that threaten its livelihood

Business of Law

• Cyberthreats 101: The biggest computer crime risks lawyers face
• Companies and their lawyers brace for wide-ranging EU data-privacy law
• New billable hour tracking tools reignite fee debate

Report from Governmental Affairs

• Final version of federal tax law reflects ABA victories on key issues

Precedents

• March 20, 1907: Authorities quarantine 'Typhoid Mary' Mallon

The Practice

• Opinion makes confidentiality exception for 'generally known' info
• The incoherence of Serjeant Arabin, champion of judicial illogic
• Learn to quiet the inner critic and its impossible demands

Opening Statements

• Sex trafficking survivors in Nepal receive legal training
• #MeToo movement sparks national legal response
• 10 Questions: Native American judge devotes legal career to restorative justice
• Pay it forward and prioritize
• Bedbug resurgence launches new legal specialty

Supreme Court Report

• Supreme Court to weigh whether law aimed at crisis pregnancy centers violates First Amendment

Your ABA

• Free expression of student journalists gets ABA support
• Former prosecutor advocates for criminal justice reform
• Final version of federal tax law reflects ABA victories on key issues
• ABA Announcements

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