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Updated: A Utah jury has reached a guilty verdict in the case of a controversial church leader accused of accomplice rape for using his religious influence to pressure a 14-year-old…
Sep 25, 2007 9:47 PM CDT
It’s not a real trial, of course. But some of the country’s best-known lawyers are talking about how they would defend the nation’s most-wanted terrorism suspect, if they were lucky—or…
Sep 5, 2007 10:09 AM CDT
In an article that has sparked lively debate on the Internet, the ABA Journal discusses the results of a poll of 50 defense lawyers about the legal system’s response to…
Sep 4, 2007 10:47 PM CDT
I enjoyed the “Law Hacks” feature, July, and agree wholeheartedly with most of the tips you give, especially using the GTD method. As an attorney, professor and…
Sep 1, 2007 7:20 PM CDT
The 9/11 victim compensation fund worked. But what about the next time?
Sep 1, 2007 5:30 AM CDT
Additional materials here on our Web site related to the articles in our September special issue print magazine
Sep 1, 2007 5:05 AM CDT
Bright and early this morning, ABA Journal senior writer Terry Carter began taking us behind the scenes at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco with…
Aug 9, 2007 5:51 PM CDT
A courthouse conversation brings a lawyer’s purpose into sharper focus
Aug 1, 2007 12:50 PM CDT
Hawaii’s Bishop Estate: a cautionary tale of mismanagement at a charitable organization
Aug 1, 2007 11:57 AM CDT
As the golden age of consumer class actions ends, the question now is whether they have any future
Jun 5, 2007 8:20 AM CDT
Those words say the same thing in any language, but their legal meaning may vary drastically from country to country
May 1, 2007 9:26 AM CDT
Elizabeth Murrill, an assistant law professor at Louisiana State and mother of four to boot, recently learned she was chosen as a U.S. Supreme Court fellow.
The nephew of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was illiterate and was in and out of jail throughout his life. When Mark Elliot Martin was convicted in 1997 of…
Apr 23, 2007 3:51 PM CDT
Roxanne Conlin, who describes herself in the April ABA Journal, as “the most senior civil rights lawyer in Iowa” is used to seeing her small firm (she…
Apr 21, 2007 12:15 AM CDT
An “adults only” en banc opinion by a federal appeals court says a college soccer coach’s comments may violate Title IX’s ban on sexual discrimination in public schools.
The opinion…
Apr 20, 2007 2:58 PM CDT
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