In 1981, five Vietnam veterans hatched a plan to mount an armed assault on the Veterans Administration building in San Diego. They were angry that the VA seemed indifferent to…
Feb 7, 2016 10:10 AM CST
In the high desert east of San Diego, the international border between the United States and Mexico is sometimes a fence, sometimes a wall and sometimes no more than an…
Feb 6, 2016 1:48 PM CST
On Black Friday of 2012, four teenagers stopped at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, to buy gum and cigarettes and got into an argument with a stranger about their…
Feb 6, 2016 12:41 PM CST
There’s no shortage of discussion about lack of diversity in the workplace, especially the legal profession. But solutions to the diversity problems and ways to combat implicit bias are harder…
Feb 6, 2016 12:03 PM CST
Images of prostitutes walking the streets and picking up johns are pervasive in popular culture. But the reality is that commercial sex is just a click away.
These days, johns…
Feb 6, 2016 11:17 AM CST
Key segments of the U.S. student population that are most in need of support from schools instead are being siphoned off into the criminal justice system, says a report that…
Feb 6, 2016 10:28 AM CST
As any fan of rock ‘n’ roll’s hot rod genre can attest, cars have been an essential element of California culture for more than a century.
So it’s only fitting…
Feb 5, 2016 8:30 AM CST
After a year when race and bias have been important parts of the national conversation—and when a woman of color is serving as ABA president for the first time—diversity and…
Feb 4, 2016 8:15 AM CST
Corrected: A proposed amendment to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct would make workplace discrimination an ethics violation.
The proposed Model Rule 8.4(g) would prohibit harassing or discriminatory conduct…
Jan 19, 2016 5:45 AM CST
Three attorneys, including Evan Wolfson, the founder and president of Freedom to Marry, have been selected to receive the American Bar Association’s third annual Stonewall Award. The accolade is…
Sep 18, 2015 5:30 PM CDT
In the recent U.S. Supreme Court case
Elonis v. United States, argued in December, lawyers for Anthony Elonis said he should not have been convicted of making online threats against…
Apr 1, 2015 6:00 AM CDT
Michael Moore, Rusty Hardin and Jeffrey Dion made up a panel moderated by Sherri Bevan Walsh that addressed the balance between free speech rights and threats issued online. Photo by Kathy Anderson.
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Photo of Walter White Jr. by Kathy Anderson
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Photo of Leigh-Ann Buchanan by Kathy Anderson
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Deborah Enix-Ross looks on as Hilarie Bass speaks to the Nominating Committee. Photo by Kathy Anderson.
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