Submit your proposed caption for this cartoon about a lawyer looming over a romantic moment. The winner of our January challenge will see his or her caption and credit printed…
In this winning short story, a defense attorney and a prosecutor work together to help a criminal defendant—a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse issues—get treatment.
Trial lawyers, like literary artists, know how to pose the right questions. They construct the staging, especially in courtroom scenes, that directs their audience—jurors and judges, and sometimes the public—toward intended readings of dramatic subtext.
Through the ABA Journal’s monthly 10 Questions feature, reporter Jenny B. Davis spent 2016 speaking to legal professionals of all different backgrounds and walks of life. Here are the 12…
Updated: As the ABA Journal staff looked back over the past year, these were the 10 legal stories that seemed the most important and prominent. A summary of each is…
Last week, the Virginia Supreme Court added nine options to its list of acceptable fonts (PDF). Previously, only Arial, Courier or Verdana were allowed. Now, you can “go crazy…
The old joke about the National Security Agency was that it was so secretive and mysterious that it really stood for “No Such Agency.” So it might be a bit…
Check out this week’s news quiz! This week’s answers are drawn from ABAJournal.com stories featured in our daily and weekly email newsletters. There’s no cost to subscribe and…
This week, we noted a story about a client who failed to pay the law firm Winston & Strawn nearly $500,000 in legal bills. Among his explanations for nonpayment…
When you ask Randi Mayes about the future of technology in law firms, she says its growth will stem from attorneys' behavior rather than specific product offerings.
ABA Journal readers came up with as many suggested captions as we could wish for, and we chose three. Now it’s your turn to decide on the best one. The…
The ABA Journal wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession. We are now accepting thoughtful, non-promotional articles and commentary by unpaid contributors.