Newest Issue - March 2016

Minority women are disappearing from BigLaw--and here's why

Features

• Personal injury lawyers turn to neuroscience to back claims of chronic pain
• Justice moves slowly for those who need interpreters

President's Letter

• Justice for all ... who can afford it

Letters

• Letters: To thine own self be true

The National Pulse

• Drought sheds light on the California's water law deficiencies
• Federal appeals courts split over law on credit card surcharges

Business of Law

• More law firms find savings, stability through self-insurance
• Bitcoin's blockchain technology being used in business, finance and contracts
• ABA Techshow enters its 30th year highlighting legal technology
• Some firms swear by the use of private investigators
• More 'best firms' have females as top rainmakers
• Use this simple exercise to solve the tech problems bugging you

Precedents

• March 14, 1984: The savings and loan crisis begins

The Practice

• ABA opinion gives guidelines for communicating with people receiving limited-scope representation
• A 'conversation' with the late, great lexicographer Samuel Johnson
• Martin Luther King Jr. offers insight into 'justice for all'

Opening Statements

• Law firm partner and clerk create a foundation to build schools in Honduras
• Boston lawyer rows to world championship
• Federal courthouse draws the public in through lobby art exhibitions
• 10 Questions: This DC lawyer is helping her firm attract US Supreme Court clerks

Supreme Court Report

• Supreme Court to consider abortion regulations and the contraception-coverage mandate

Your ABA

• ABA adds its voice to calls for the US to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• ABA Announcements
• Increased funding for the LSC tops the list of the ABA's 2015 successes on Capitol Hill

Obiter Dicta

• Courts must decide whether new high-tech toys can also be targets

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