Newest Issue - May 2013

Are digitization and budget cuts compromising history?

Features

• How lawyers are mining the information mother lode for pricing, practice tips and predictions
• Your next job interviewer might be a computer program
• Should this toy be saved?

President's Letter

• ABA helps lawyers thrive by being at the forefront of new practice areas

Letters

• Letters: Magical Thinking

The National Pulse

• Hacker's Hell: Many want to narrow the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
• Attorneys push for change in debt collection

Business of Law

• Secondments grow as a better-life option
• Tech geeks gather to reinvent the law
• Mentors can help fledgling solos
• Lawyers say they like storing data online
• LGBT lawyers join high court bar
• Get a handle on student loan debt

Precedents

• May 6, 1882: Congress passes first major law restricting immigration

The Practice

• For the Word Lovers: A look at linguistic phenomena

Opening Statements

• Law school friends score a reality TV show
• Suit tries to rein in digital billboards
• New video series looks behind the scenes of innovation at inspiring inventors
• Does a prisoner have a right to a mohel? School’s new clinic takes on religious liberties case
• Don't know what to do with your law degree? This lawyer wants to help

Supreme Court Report

• Law prof Chemerinsky offers a syllabus on how the high court can polish its publicity

Your ABA

• Section keeps LSAT requirement for law school applicants--at least for now
• ABA opinion cautions judges to avoid ethics pitfalls of social media
• ABA announces nominations for president, secretary, treasurer and the Board of Governors
• Lawyers giving back
• ABA Announcements

Obiter Dicta

• Marriage as a loophole—what’s love got to do with it?

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