Newest Issue - July 2014

How countries are successfully using the law to get looted cultural treasures back

Features

• Designing your law office to save money and boost productivity--without sacrificing style
• An interview with Judge Richard A. Posner

President's Letter

• ABA's internationally focused entities provide education, professional connections

Letters

• Letters: The Sovereign Situation

The National Pulse

• When should bloggers count as journalists in defamation suits?
• Federal panels are taking a harder look at nondisparagement clauses

Business of Law

• Newspaper counsel takes on New Jersey governor over 'Bridgegate'
• When letting a bill go unpaid can be good for business
• Soft terms turned to solid tips at Avvo's Lawyernomics 2014
• Solos go for tech in 2014
• Law firms' own employees are among the major cyberthreats to be protected against
• Preparing for the 'Internet of things'
• An Acrobat alternative, at a third of the price

Precedents

• July 12, 1957: Surgeon General links smoking and lung cancer

Opening Statements

• She-Hulk comic turns its focus to solo practice at the urging of its writer, a practicing attorney
• New law in Virginia will ban controversial fox-penning sport
• App translates rules of golf into plain English
• Prison ban on steel-string guitars in Britain has rock musicians outraged

Supreme Court Report

• Federal Circuit gets reined in over patent fees in infringement suits

Your ABA

• New ABA principles provide starting point for businesses to eliminate forced and child labor
• ABA opposes limiting how much student loan debt may be discharged under federal program
• Stephen Zack plugs the ABA's role in the rule of law during stint as U.N. delegate
• ABA Announcements

Obiter Dicta

• The privileged few walk away from trouble so easily, there's even a term for it

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