655 ABA Journal Annual Meeting articles.
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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