Newest Issue - August 2014

12 movies with pivotal lessons featuring lawyers

Features

• Schools start to rethink zero tolerance policies

President's Letter

• ABA initiatives have made a difference from small communities to Capitol Hill

Letters

• Letters: Law for All

The National Pulse

• Lawyers look for secular solutions to the Orthodox Jewish divorce problem
• Gun owners are looking to join prepaid legal defense plans

Business of Law

• Latest legal victory has LegalZoom poised for growth
• CRM software providers automate updates; law firms make money
• Industry, not practice, makes perfect
• Firms keep a tight rein on employees' mobile access to networks
• Solos sometimes need help hiring help

Precedents

• Aug. 12, 1998: Swiss banks settle Holocaust claims

Opening Statements

• New laws are cracking down on puppy mills and pet shops
• New documentary looks back at the Pamela Smart murder trial
• Center studying law and culture moves to NYU
• Consumer activists seek to challenge 'protectionist' funeral laws

Supreme Court Report

• Supreme Court justices regularly seek to change the errors of their ways

Your ABA

• Growing numbers of US lawyers are doing pro bono work in other countries
• ABA Annual Meeting in Boston features a new format to reduce conflicts, inspire a sense of community
• Legal ed section presents its review of accreditation standards to ABA House this month
• ABA addresses the impact of sex trafficking on foster youths
• ABA Announcements

Obiter Dicta

• Cops can't be everywhere, so citizens fill the void

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