Newest Issue - September 2018

2018 Legal Rebels: Knocking down the barriers of convention and building the profession anew

This year’s 11 ABA Journal Legal Rebels innovators are building roads to justice, efficiency, technology and knowledge.

Features

• The job is killing them: Family lawyers experience threats, violence
• Should BigLaw firms worry about increasing competition from the Big Four accounting firms?

President's Letter

• Working together to succeed: ABA pursues team effort to develop new models and enhance existing programs

Letters

• Letters: A quiet place

The National Pulse

• Candy and snack companies sued for packages with empty space instead of extra product
• How a rural murder case could return nearly half the state of Oklahoma to tribal control

Business of Law

• Law firms can learn from other industries' missteps on cybersecurity awareness and prevention
• Algorithms fall short in predicting litigation outcomes
• Are law firms that place great importance on 'cultural fit' merely perpetuating the status quo?

Report from Governmental Affairs

• ABA-supported Marrakesh Treaty expands access to print materials for blind people

Precedents

• Sept. 19, 1952: US pushes Charlie Chaplin into exile

The Practice

• 'Springsteen on Broadway' gives lawyers 3 storytelling lessons
• Lawyers and cognitive decline: Diminished capacity may bring ethics problems for sufferers
• Some posthumous wisdom on writing from Robert Louis Stevenson
• Relaxing the anxious lawyer brain takes practice

Opening Statements

• Firms provide pro bono assistance to Kansas City communities
• Divorce lawyer's side job is officiating at weddings
• 10 Questions: This comedian and Oregon lawyer stands up against sexual harassment
• Fighting hate: Website serves more than 2,000 in first year of reporting incidents

Supreme Court Report

• Chief Justice Roberts slides into the high court’s ideological middle with the retirement of Justice Kennedy

Your ABA

• Incoming President Robert Carlson sees expansive roles for attorneys
• Showrunners: Couple's friendly fundraising competition launches marathon event to benefit legal aid
• Young Lawyers Division honors 40 up-and-coming attorneys
• ABA Announcements

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