26 ABA Journal ABA Journal Events articles.
An Illinois lawyer who inadvertently discovered he was able to alter origination credits on his office computer should be suspended for making changes that added more than $200,000 to his…
May 6, 2019 7:00 AM CDT
Feb 14, 2017 10:40 AM CST
Eighty-five percent of minority female attorneys in the U.S. will quit large firms within seven years of starting their practice. Why? According to the research and personal stories these women…
Apr 25, 2016 8:30 AM CDT
Jan 1, 2016 1:50 AM CST
After two days of brainstorming and collaboration in North Carolina’s capital city, lawyers, students and coders developed legal apps to aid farm workers, streamline legal aid cases and evaluate legal…
Oct 27, 2015 10:35 AM CDT
Congratulations to retired lawyer Andy Greensfelder, the winner of the 2015 ABA Journal/Ross Prize for Legal Short Fiction.
Greensfelder, who hails from San Luis Obispo, California, was among 60 entrants…
Sep 18, 2015 2:00 PM CDT
Deborah Johnson has been awarded the 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for The Secret of Magic.
“We’re thrilled with this year’s selection,” said Allen Pusey, editor and publisher…
Jul 1, 2015 2:09 PM CDT
Georgetown University Law Center’s fourth annual “Iron Tech Lawyer Competition—Access to Justice Edition,” has grown a bit.
The event, held Wednesday, included small teams of students that developed apps…
Apr 24, 2015 9:53 AM CDT
There’s lots of talk about technology taking over the legal profession these days. But what exactly are those technologies? What technologies are lawyers actually using? And how are those technologies…
Mar 30, 2015 2:29 PM CDT
Ensuring that all Americans have sufficient access to justice has been one of the top priorities of the American Bar Association. One of the states with the largest gaps between…
Mar 23, 2015 4:15 PM CDT
The ABA Journal and the Louisiana State Bar Association will be holding Louisiana’s first access-to-justice hackathon on March 21-22 in New Orleans. The event will bring together coders and legal…
Feb 12, 2015 4:54 PM CST
John Grisham is a best-selling author who has seen many of his books become major Hollywood pictures. Jason Bailey is a first-time author who maintains a busy legal practice in…
Sep 4, 2014 4:28 PM CDT
Award winners from the recent Hackcess to Justice legal hackathon are working hard to fulfill the main goal of the event: Improving access for all Americans…
Aug 25, 2014 1:30 PM CDT
A disaster-relief mobile app that provides individuals with legal information, resources, and forms for assistance. An interactive tool that calculates whether a user is eligible for indigent legal services, as…
Aug 9, 2014 2:16 AM CDT
As the ABA Annual Meeting gets underway in Boston, teams of law students, lawyers, and computer programmers will be gathering at nearby Suffolk University Law School to help solve a…
Aug 5, 2014 8:00 PM CDT
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.
