656 ABA Journal Annual Meeting articles.
A single lawyer from Pakistan stood at the podium, but the standing ovation from an audience of some 600 people that washed over him today at a luncheon sponsored by…
Aug 9, 2008 9:38 PM CDT
Justice Antonin Scalia—the U.S. Supreme Court’s great dissenter—stayed true to form as he accepted a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Legal Writers on Saturday.
“I do not…
Aug 9, 2008 7:31 PM CDT
A retired Georgia judge who stepped down from the 2005 Atlanta courthouse killings case told an ABA panel today that prosecutors are partially to blame for high costs and delays…
Aug 9, 2008 5:52 PM CDT
The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971 is still eager to expose government secrets.
Daniel Ellsberg told an ABA…
Aug 9, 2008 5:40 PM CDT The Section of Litigation presented a high-powered U.S. Supreme Court wrap-up panel today featuring two former U.S. solictors general and a nationally known Stanford Law School professor providing commentary at…
Aug 9, 2008 4:29 PM CDT With historic Ellis Island as the backdrop, outgoing Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section chair Peter Bennett kicked off the section’s meeting Friday night by reinforcing his commitment to diversity. Aug 9, 2008 12:25 PM CDT Harvard Law School professor Mark Tushnet believes Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent majority opinion striking down a ban on handguns in the home was a compromise decision, crafted to appeal to…
Aug 8, 2008 11:18 PM CDT The ABA has announced that Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro, the deputy secretary-general of the United Nations, will give the keynote address Saturday evening at the opening assembly…
Aug 8, 2008 10:30 PM CDT Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama says he wants judicial nominees to have empathy. Presumptive Repubican presidential Nominee John McCain says he does not want activist judges. But what that…
Aug 8, 2008 10:08 PM CDT As an estimated 10,000 people attend more than 1,500 programs (PDF) at the American Bar Association’s 131st annual meeting starting this week, public attention is being focused on…
Aug 8, 2008 9:45 PM CDT William H. Neukom’s last official news conference as ABA president today had the tone of a valedictory. Neukom, whose one-year term ends Tuesday at the close of the Aug 8, 2008 8:42 PM CDT From his perch as chief legal correspondent for NBC News, Dan Abrams has developed opinions on everything from the politicization of the Justice Department to news coverage of Barack Obama.…
Aug 8, 2008 7:11 PM CDT Technology has made the world a smaller place. It’s made it possible to talk to someone from around the world over a computer, to buy a product from another country,…
Aug 8, 2008 6:21 PM CDT Judges and lawyers taking an instant survey with handheld devices Friday learned a disappointing lesson: Their decision-making is likely subject to errors and biases. The findings don’t square with the…
Aug 8, 2008 3:29 PM CDT Eric Tate says everyone has experienced “micro-inequities” in the workplace, and he is no exception. Tate, a partner at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, recalls an incident that occurred…
Aug 7, 2008 11:03 PM CDTKen Starr, Drew Days Discuss Revealing Supreme Court Term
Ellis Island Stirs Memories at TIPS Event
Second Amendment Opinion May Lack Firepower
A Diplomatic Breakthrough
What the President Should Look for in a Judicial Nominee
ABA is Media Focus, as Annual Meeting Kicks Off in NYC
Sequel to World Justice Forum in the Works
Why NBC’s Legal Reporter is Feuding With Karl Rove
Panel: Regs Are Speed Bumps in Legal Services Drive
‘Cognitive Traps’ Ensnare Judges Taking Instant Survey
‘Micro-Inequities’ Have Big Workplace Impact
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