http://www.abajournal.com/news/ en Copyright 2013 2013-06-18T19:34:07-06:00 http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/women_in_charge_at_the_top_of_their_game/ Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Careers, Women in the Law, Law Firms, Large Firm, Legal History, Features Sat, 01 Jun 2013 05:20:52 -0500 44311.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/june_19_1961_police_raid_of_dolly_mapps_home_sparks_a_revolution_in_the_cri/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, Legal History, U.S. Supreme Court, Precedents Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:00:10 -0500 44258.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/sotomayor_takes_scotus_chief_justice_seat_to_re-enact_famous_baseball_case/ U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor got the chance to sit at the center of the bench, normally reserved for Chief Justice John Roberts, this week as she presided over the re-enactment of a case that unsuccessfully challenged the ability of baseball team owners to virtually own their players. The… Antitrust Law, Law in Popular Culture, Legal History, U.S. Supreme Court Fri, 24 May 2013 15:46:55 -0500 44358.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/did_convicted_cold_blood_murderers_in_capote_novel_also_kill_a_florida_fami/ When four members of a Kansas farm family were found dead in their home in 1959, the detective in charge of the investigation thought the culprit must be a local man with a grudge against the head of the family. Authorities hesitated for several days before pursuing a lead from… Criminal Justice, Legal History, Trials & Litigation, Evidence, States, Florida, Kansas Fri, 17 May 2013 14:44:59 -0500 44237.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lessons_for_liberals_can_be_found_in_story_of_federalist_society_influence/ Libertarians and conservatives with varying philosophies managed to put aside their differences to advance a broad agenda based on originalism, according to the authors of a new book. They were united by the Federalist Society, which began in 1982 with a symposium and spread to law school campuses throughout the… Constitutional Law, Judiciary, Law Professors, Law Schools, Law Students, Legal History, Legal Theory Wed, 15 May 2013 06:25:07 -0500 44171.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ginsburg_expands_on_her_disenchantment_with_roe_v._wade_legacy/ In a broad-ranging discussion on the subject of abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Saturday reiterated and expanded her continuing disenchantment with the legacy of Roe v. Wade. Speaking to several hundred students Saturday at the University of Chicago School of Law, Ginsburg said the sheer sweep… Constitutional Law, Legal History, U.S. Supreme Court Mon, 13 May 2013 09:20:20 -0500 44139.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/are_digitization_and_budget_cuts_compromising_history/ Government Law, Law Libraries, Legal History, Legislation & Lobbying, Features Wed, 01 May 2013 05:30:54 -0500 43763.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/new_video_series_looks_behind_the_scenes_of_innovation_at_inspiring_invento/ Intellectual Property Law, Patent Law, Trademark Law, Law in Popular Culture, Legal History, Opening Statements Wed, 01 May 2013 04:20:06 -0500 43787.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/lgbt_lawyers_join_high_court_bar/ Bar Associations, Careers, Civil Rights, Legal History, U.S. Supreme Court, Business of Law Wed, 01 May 2013 02:10:06 -0500 43757.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/may_6_1882_congress_passes_first_major_law_restricting_immigration/ Civil Rights, Immigration Law, Legal History, Legislation & Lobbying, U.S. Supreme Court, Precedents Wed, 01 May 2013 00:40:06 -0500 43799.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/pulitzer_awarded_for_book_on_forgotten_case_defended_by_thurgood_marshall/ Author Gilbert King says he thought a friend was joking in a text message that read, “Dude. Pulitzer.” It turned out the friend was serious, report the New York Times and the Orlando Sentinel. King wasn’t even aware that his publisher had nominated… Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Legal History, U.S. Supreme Court Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:00:52 -0500 43915.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/leon_jaworskis_name_is_the_first_to_go_as_his_firm_grows/ Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Careers, Legal History, Opening Statements Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:00:29 -0500 43277.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/trial_of_socrates_still_raises_questions/ Legal Ethics, Legal History, Ethics Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:10:31 -0500 43297.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/what_judges_really_think_about_the_phrase_may_it_please_the_court/ ABA Journal, Bryan Garner on Words, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Legal History, Legal Writing, Trials & Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court, Bryan Garner on Words Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:58:10 -0500 43296.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/april_3_1996_the_unabomber_is_apprehended/ Legal History, Terrorism, Precedents Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:29 -0500 43314.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/legal_journalist_dies_near_50th_anniversary_of_the_case_he_chronicled_in_gi/ Former New York Times reporter Anthony Lewis has died at the age of 85, just one week after the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court case he chronicled in the book Gideon’s Trumpet. Lewis died on Monday as a result of complications from renal and heart failure, the Careers, Obituaries, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, Law in Popular Culture, Legal History, Legal Writing, Trials & Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:41:43 -0500 43421.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/photo_gallery_commemorates_50th_anniversary_of_closing_of_alcatraz_once_nat/ A 48-photo gallery in the San Francisco Chronicle commemorates the 50th anniversary of the closing of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on March 21, 1963. Once considered the nation's most secure prison, on an island surrounded by the waters of San Francisco Bay, it hosted some of the… Criminal Justice, Sentencing/Post Conviction, Legal History, States, California Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:00:51 -0500 43374.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/who_died_at_boys_reform_school_over_last_century_and_how_ag_asks_judge/ Seeking to provide some answers to questions that have been raised about an unknown number of deaths at a Florida reform school over the course of the last century, the state's attorney general on Tuesday asked a judge to OK an exhumation. "The deaths that occurred at Dozier School for… Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Government Law, Legal History, Trials & Litigation, States, Florida Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:15:57 -0500 43235.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/couple_visits_all_254_texas_courthouses_in_14500-mile_odyssey_ties_knot_on_/ When Aaron Mason and Anne Cornell first visited the Fayette County courthouse in LaGrange, Texas, together in December 2010, the two Austin schoolteachers didn't know each other all that well. But over the next two years, as they traveled over 14,500 miles together to visit all 254 of the state's… Judiciary, Legal History, States, Texas Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:47:32 -0500 43216.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/joseph_kelner_attorney_who_sued_sitting_ohio_governor_over_kent_state_slayi/ Joseph Kelner, a personal injury attorney best known for the litigation battle he fought, and arguably won, over an iconic Vietnam War protest at Kent State University, has died. He was 98 years old. A former president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the American Trial Lawyers… Careers, Obituaries, Legal History, Trials & Litigation, 6th Circuit Court, States, New York, Ohio Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:55:36 -0600 43179.abajournal.com