How to become a sports lawyer

Holly Shick regularly receives messages on LinkedIn from law students and young lawyers who want to know how to get into sports law. “I always say, ‘Well, what is it that you want to do in sports law?’” says Shick, the chief ethics and compliance officer at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “Because there are a lot of diff erent ways to get into sports law that don’t have to do strictly with sports.”

Oct 1, 2025 2:05 AM CDT

Advocates support use of kinship caregivers in child welfare cases

Extensive research also shows many benefits to placing children with kinship caregivers if they are available. These include minimizing the trauma of family separation, increasing placement stability and improving behavioral outcomes.

Aug 1, 2023 12:05 AM CDT

6 ways to fight workplace bullying in legal spaces

Check out these tips from David Yamada, a labor & employment expert and the subject of our Members Who Inspire column in our Dec. 2021-Jan. 2022 issue.

Dec 1, 2021 4:15 PM CST

ABA Treasurer’s Report for FY2020

Aug 1, 2021 1:00 AM CDT

Oregon law professor plants seeds of change in climate change law

University of Oregon School of Law professor Mary Wood, a former hazardous waste lawyer, never foresaw that she would become a pioneer in climate change law. It wasn’t even an established practice area in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina—which many scientists attributed to global warming—changed the course of her life from more than 2,000 miles away.

Nov 1, 2019 4:00 AM CDT

Harassment survey respondents see no change ‘till everyone believes’

Thanks to the #MeToo movement, conversations about sexual harassment are happening now with much more frequency, but respondents to a recent survey expressed serious doubt that recent news has created grass-roots effects.

Oct 1, 2018 12:10 AM CDT

It’s difficult to describe lawyers’ situations in Puerto Rico, but hurricane damage was ‘extreme’

The impact of the hurricanes over the island was not uniform, with some areas suffering extreme devastation. There was greater havoc in the eastern and central parts of the island, so many lawyers in those communities are still without power in their offices.

Feb 1, 2018 12:03 AM CST

Survey: Lawyers still think blogging makes an impact

Blogging continues to draw new practitioners into the legal community. The majority responding to an ABA Journal online survey has been blogging for five years or less.

Dec 1, 2017 12:09 AM CST

Philippe Sands: From London to Lviv

Philippe Sands, the author of East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, was interviewed by James Podgers for the ABA Journal. Here is an edited transcript of that interview.

Sep 1, 2017 12:20 AM CDT

Anatomy of an extensive default judgment

A Pennsylvania federal court case was unusual because of the staggering amount of work the judge put into explaining her reasoning in an otherwise routine default judgment. Also see our cover story: "Who's the pirate?"

Oct 1, 2016 12:30 AM CDT

Full Transcript of Bryan A. Garner’s Interview with Elena Kagan

Sep 1, 2012 7:51 AM CDT

Vote For Your Favorite Legal TV Show

Aug 1, 2009 7:37 PM CDT

Code v1 vs. Code v2

See “Lessig’s Lesson.”

Jun 2, 2009 3:10 AM CDT

Twitter Resources

Apr 2, 2009 12:40 AM CDT

On My Honor

Also see “Catch Me If You Can.” How did Howard Kieffer pull off his alleged legal impersonation act? Many say he may have taken advantage of well-known loophole in federal court admissions: Few federal courts verify information out-of-state counsel provides in pro hac vice motions or circuit bar applications. Each…

Apr 1, 2009 4:57 PM CDT