Newest Issue - June 2018

Building a niche law practice rewards extra work, special training

In a challenging job market for young lawyers, a specialized legal niche provides a marketing edge for solo practitioners and better advice to clients.

Features

• Opioids, justice & mercy: Courts are on the front lines of a lethal crisis
• Opioid family court cases increase
• Time's up: Legal, judicial systems slow to adapt to sexual harassment and assault issues
• Why 3 BigLaw firms ended use of mandatory arbitration clauses

President's Letter

• ABA succeeds in key efforts to protect rights, ensure fairness in immigration process

Letters

• Letters: Pioneer in law

The National Pulse

• Proposed Florida law resurrects the debate around the legal duty to help someone in distress
• Texas county experiments with allowing indigent clients to choose their own lawyers

Business of Law

• Are you covered? Cyber insurance market is highly unstable and lacks uniformity
• ABA Techshow 2018 examines legal profession's direction with technology emphasis
• How pro bono representations lead to paid work for lawyers

Report from Governmental Affairs

• ABA Day lobbying focused on Legal Services Corp., student loan forgiveness

Precedents

• June 19, 1972: Curt Flood loses 'reserve clause' challenge

The Practice

• Rethinking woodshedding: Trust clients and let them speak freely, but carefully, when testifying
• Is there an ethical problem with attorneys ghostwriting for pro se clients?
• Every lawyer a lexicographer: Defining words with clarity, brevity and practicality
• Suffering can be the human consequence of lawyering

Opening Statements

• Lawsuits, leads and old-fashioned legwork helped expose Larry Nassar
• IRS overhaul throws divorce calculations into turmoil
• 10 Questions: Activist-turned-drag queen builds successful careers in law and the arts
• Structure from a chaotic beginning

Supreme Court Report

• Assessing Gorsuch: What's the verdict on justice's first full term?

Your ABA

• ABA groups launch clemency information clearinghouse for death penalty cases
• Podcasts have become a way for ABA entities to educate and entertain
• ABA Announcements

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