10 Questions: This young lawyer could put people behind bars before she could legally have a drink

Jul 1, 2016 3:20 AM CDT

10 Questions Live: Keith Porcaro talks about how tech can make it easier to deliver legal services

Keith Porcaro is a web developer-turned-lawyer devising innovative, technology-driven processes to streamline the delivery of government and social services. On Thursday, he talked to the ABA about how his work as head of technology and development and general counsel of SIMLab in Washington, D.C., has helped social service providers with…

Jun 24, 2016 12:03 PM CDT

10 Questions: Crafting tech solutions for legal aid

Jun 1, 2016 3:10 AM CDT

10 Questions Live: Groundbreaking transgender judge talks bathroom laws

Phyllis Randolph Frye is the first openly transgender judge in the nation. On Thursday, she talked with the ABA about recent bathroom laws as well as her own experiences as a transgender individual over the last four decades. “I did come out of the closet in ‘76,” Frye said. “At…

May 26, 2016 5:35 PM CDT

10 Questions: Groundbreaking transgender judge happily passes the torch in post-Caitlyn age

May 1, 2016 3:00 AM CDT

10 Questions: This Chicago lawyer is working in the tech sector after 5 years as a stay-at-home mom

Apr 1, 2016 3:40 AM CDT

10 Questions: This DC lawyer is helping her firm attract US Supreme Court clerks

Mar 1, 2016 3:20 AM CST

10 Questions: Want to find the next Triple Crown winner? You may want to talk to this lawyer

Feb 1, 2016 3:10 AM CST

10 Questions: From lesbian moms to Airbnb, Roberta Kaplan makes sure laws keep pace with change

Jan 1, 2016 3:20 AM CST

This lawyer is using her love for ‘Star Wars’ to expand the galaxy of geeks

For some people, Star Wars isn't just a movie, it's also a way of life. Jennifer LaFortune is one of those people. Since 2006, the Gilbert, Arizona, lawyer has been dressing up, or "cosplaying," as a Stormtrooper—Imperial Officer TK 7047, to be exact—to attend sci-fi conventions, march in parades and…

Dec 1, 2015 3:40 AM CST

This lawyer is fighting to extend basic human rights to complex animals

Natalie Prosin doesn't favor guerrilla tactics in the courtroom—more like gorilla tactics. As executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Nonhuman Rights Project, she manages the day-to-day operations of a mostly volunteer group of lawyers and scientists striving to extend the common-law classification of personhood to cognitively complex nonhuman animals to…

Nov 1, 2015 3:30 AM CST

This Houston lawyer is now representing a death row inmate he reported on as a TV newsman

Earlier this year, Quinncy N. McNeal was surfing the Internet when he discovered that an execution date had been set for Rodney Reed, a Texas death row inmate convicted of the 1996 abduction, rape and murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. McNeal was shocked. Before becoming a lawyer, he had worked…

Oct 1, 2015 8:28 AM CDT

10 Questions: Has the ADA measured up?

Sep 1, 2015 3:30 AM CDT

Meet the judge who has become a national sensation as ‘Bongo Lady’

By day, Malenda Harris Meacham is a busy solo family law practitioner and part-time judge in Hernando, Mississippi. By night she's become something of an air bongo sensation. That's right—an air bongo sensation.

Aug 1, 2015 6:45 AM CDT

Meet a lawyer trying to guide the all-cash cannabis industry into the federal banking system

South Carolina litigator Mark Mason knew as much about the marijuana industry as any other middle-aged, law-abiding lawyer. That is, until his son called from Denver asking for help. Now Mason, principal in the five-lawyer Mason Law Firm in Mount Pleasant, is leading the charge to give Colorado's all-cash cannabis…

Jul 1, 2015 6:05 AM CDT