Newest Issue - September 2017

Legal Rebels: Pattern of Progress

This year’s 13 Rebels are providing new ways to help immigrants find legal assistance, businesses comply with accessibility laws, drivers deal with parking tickets, and lawyers do their time and billing—painlessly.

Features

• Pay Up: Female lawyers are working for income fairness—by suing their firms
• Afghan and Iraqi interpreters for the US are caught in a deadly immigration waiting game
• The Holocaust, international law and a family's fate intersect in one Eastern European city

Web Extras

• Philippe Sands: From London to Lviv

President's Letter

• Vision of Success: Future of the legal profession requires change the ABA can provide

Letters

• Letters: Dissecting Fake News

The National Pulse

• Trump administration reverses federal plans to phase out use of private prison facilities
• Stifling Speech: Government invokes doctrine to silence expression it doesn’t like

Business of Law

• Ask Daliah: Ways to record, bill and save those minutes at work
• UVA professor takes over part of civil procedure guidebooks, joins Supreme Court committee
• Legal Services Corp., Microsoft plan voice-response portals for legal advice

Report from Governmental Affairs

• ABA opposes legislation that could endanger unaccompanied immigrant children

Precedents

• Sept. 29, 1982: 7 Deaths Point to Cyanide-Laced Pain Reliever

The Practice

• Lawyers have to move on from witnesses who won't budge
• Some states now require all attorneys to report wrongful convictions
• Pro Tips on Speech Prep: How to enhance audience experience and make your points stick

Opening Statements

• Law Firm Hosts an Evening of Art Imitating Life
• Harper Lee Prize Goes to Boies Schiller Counsel: 12th book in series takes top honor
• How We Give 100 Percent
• 10 Questions: Dallas litigator Rachel Lindsay used her legal skills to find 'the one' on 'The Bachelorette'

Supreme Court Report

• Court rules on birth certificate designations for same-sex parents

Your ABA

• ABA president's goals focus on young people and the future
• Chicago associate protects the rights of at-risk travelers in the wake of the president’s ban
• ABA Announcements

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