658 ABA Journal Annual Meeting articles.
Besides understanding that nanotechnology makes small stuff usable and usable stuff small, we need also recognize that what we know about it can fit on the head of a pin,…
Aug 12, 2007 6:36 PM CDT
Updated: The laws of the United States and other nations are increasingly becoming pieces of a larger fabric as they seek to address issues of common interest, said U.S. Supreme…
Aug 12, 2007 3:20 AM CDT
A controversial proposal to limit access to criminal records to make it easier for convicts to find jobs and housing is being withdrawn by the entities that intended to bring…
Aug 11, 2007 10:57 PM CDT
Five years ago last week, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act took effect, giving the government a whole new set of tools to fight corporate corruption.
Its anti-fraud provisions immediately affected public companies…
Aug 11, 2007 9:41 PM CDT
NFL football star Michael Vick gained high praise today from animal rights activists gathered at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco—though it was much like a linebacker ready to…
Aug 11, 2007 8:01 PM CDT
Success didn’t happen the first time James Grippando tried to sell his legal thriller. Or the second. Or the third time. But eventually, Grippando, a former trial lawyer, found an…
Aug 11, 2007 7:11 PM CDT
ABA President Karen Mathis on Friday urged Congress to reconsider changes it made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
President George W. Bush signed a bill on Sunday that gives…
Aug 11, 2007 12:24 AM CDT
Working to diversify the legal profession–which lags significantly behind corporate counterparts–requires, as a first step, talking clearly about the issue. And sometimes anger helps.
Or so Stanley Stallworth found about…
Aug 10, 2007 10:01 PM CDT
Paying attention to the U.S. Constitution and involving Congress in setting American policy on anti-terrorism measures isn’t just the right thing to do, legally. It’s also the best way to…
Aug 10, 2007 8:52 PM 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
When Justice Anthony M. Kennedy receives the ABA’s highest award on Monday, “it’s likely to mark the continuation, not the culmination, of his work as a catalyst in getting the…
Aug 9, 2007 1:52 PM CDT
Aging attorneys will be one of the subjects taken up at the ABA Annual Meeting that begins tomorrow in San Francisco.
A resolution before the policy-making House of Delegates calls…
Aug 7, 2007 11:07 AM CDT
We’re planning wall-to-wall coverage of the largest meeting of lawyers on the planet – the ABA’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Aug. 8 through 14. More than 7,000 lawyers will…
Jun 27, 2007 8:18 PM CDT
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