Newest Issue - January 2019

Prisons are housing mental health patients who've committed no crimes

Some states use local jail cells to hold mental health patients. New Hampshire stands alone in its legal treatment of mental health patients within state prison walls.

Features

• Lawyers look for the next blockbuster as literary agents
• Guardians of the Sixth Amendment
• Ross Award winner sees the honor in public defenders' work
• Still There in the Ashes

President's Letter

• Goals for us all: promoting civility and protecting justice

Letters

• Letters: Attacks on the press

The National Pulse

• California police release true-crime podcast in hopes the public can help find a fugitive
• More lawmakers are considering banning gay and trans ‘panic defenses’

Business of Law

• How are law schools using virtual reality tools in classrooms?
• University of California at Irvine School of Law leaders reflect on first decade
• California’s new data privacy law could change how companies do business in the Golden State

Precedents

• A tale of two silver markets—and two disasters

The Practice

• Da Vinci’s code: Lawyers can draw valuable lessons from the master in Walter Isaacson’s 'Leonardo da Vinci'
• Plain talk: A conversation on simplicity with Rudolf Flesch
• Is recording others legal, and is it ethical?
• Attorney suicide: What every lawyer needs to know

Opening Statements

• Birth rights: Reproductive justice is a growing practice area
• 10 Questions: This single mother of 5 overcame a lifetime of obstacles to become a lawyer
• Law school tackles police reform
• This lawyer's blindness led him to a tech-focused law practice

Supreme Court Report

• Liquor store war: Should a giant wine and spirits retailer be subject to state residency requirements?

Your ABA

• Working toward well-being: Tools help lawyers and legal employers deal with substance-abuse disorders
• When things go wrong, immigrants serving in the military look to Margaret Stock
• Appellate attorney writes Harper Lee Prize-winning novel
• ABA Notices - January
• ABA Notices - February

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