Newest Issue - March 2012

Washed Away: As Sea Levels Rise, Island Nations Look to the Law to Fend off Extinction

Features

• Facing the Alternative: How Does a Flat Fee System Really Work?
• Show Me the Money: States, ABA Try to Figure Out When Campaign Cash Leads to a Judge’s Recusal

President's Letter

• Toward a Better Business Environment: Uniform Law Commission Balances State and Federal Regulations

Letters

• Letters: Law Grads' Toil and Trouble

The National Pulse

• Good Cop, Bad Citizen? As Cellphone Recording Increases, Officers Are Uneasy
• Playing on Home Court: New York and Delaware May Lose Their Grip on Bankruptcy Cases

Business of Law

• No Jerks: Some Firms Argue that Collegiality Pays
• Data Diet: Feed Your Head with a Better Info Balance
• Communing with Lawyers: The Benefits of a Firm Without the Bureaucracy
• Time to Be Gettin' Business: Associates Should Gear Up Inside and Outside Networks
• Roll Your Own Software: Hidden Dangers on the Road Less Traveled
• Making Time: Attorney Uses Hiatus to Create 'Pace Runner' for Billable Goals

Precedents

• March 9, 1964: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan Decided

Opening Statements

• California Supreme Court to Review the Character Test Put to Stephen Glass
• Fund for All: 'Crowdfunding' Supporters Look to Congress to Lighten Regulatory Load
• Old Case, New Evidence: Attorney Unearths New Evidence in Book on Sacco-Vanzetti Affair
• @Mootcourt: First-Ever Twitter Moot Court Competition
• State Legislators Propose Mandatory Drug Testing of Judges and Other State Officials

Supreme Court Report

• Sitting This One Out: Health Care Case Again Raises Recusal Controversy

McElhaney on Litigation

• Order in the Court: Fear Is the Biggest Obstacle to Effectively Organizing Your Case

Your ABA

• Keeping Justice Afloat at Midyear: For Courts’ Sake, Politics Is on the Docket
• DOJ: $2.4 Million to Help Improve Indigent Defense
• Scalia Explains Stance on Abortion, GPS Ruling
• Ethics 20/20 Panel Not Sold on Nonlawyer Ownership Issue
• Education a Concern for Silkenat
• On Her Way Back: New Orleans Continues to Rebuild After Hurricane Katrina
• Lawyers Giving Back
• ABA Announcements

Obiter Dicta

• Snared by Sneakiness: Divorce-Driven Deceit Derails Dads' Defenses with 'Dirty DUIs'

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