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Friday, Aug. 2, 2024

Top Stories of the Week

From the ABA Journal

Take heed before using artificial intelligence, new ABA ethics opinion says


7 steps to successful crisis management


Chemerinsky: 3 Supreme Court sleeper cases that will have lasting impact


Defenseless: Lack of public defenders creates a crisis


How term limits for Supreme Court justices--now backed by Biden--could work

 

From the August-September 2024 Magazine

We the Immigration Lawyers: 9 attorneys share what drives them

Immigrants coming to the U.S. face legal uncertainties along with difficult living conditions and the pain of family separations. Yet a hope that opportunities will outweigh the travails is strong with many new arrivals. That's something lawyers who help immigrants understand well--including those who are immigrants themselves.

ABA Annual Meeting opens in Chicago this week


Former ABA President Tommy Wells has died


Judiciary employees filed 17 complaints against federal judges over 3-year period, new report says


Lawyer thought he was working with feds when he lost retirement savings to scammers


Duane Morris bestows partner title on powerless attorneys to shift tax and business costs, suit alleges


6th Circuit refuses to block school's pronoun policy; dissent makes belief-in-ghosts comparison


Does the legal profession still need Latin?

From the ABA president

Lawyers must act now to save our democracy

"With 100 days to go until Election Day, and as we enter a particularly fraught presidential election season, we the people must consider both who and what we're voting for. Never have presidential powers been a more salient issue than now," writes ABA President Mary Smith. »Read more

Shaken-baby murder conviction overturned after defendant offers evidence questioning diagnosis


Judge who socialized with police officers, used the F-word, agrees to removal from bench


Is the legal system ready for AI-generated deepfake videos?


Judge's sanctions threat based on just one misused word, Hunter Biden's attorneys say


Customer should have known boneless chicken wings can contain bones, top state court says in tossing suit


Sanction affirmed for lawyer accused of cursing and pushing opposing counsel after 'tense' deposition


How Sweet It Is: Lawyer builds a business around her award-winning chocolate

 

The Modern Law Library

'Shaping the Bar' author says bar exam protects legal profession, not public

The goal of the bar exam is to be a gatekeeper for the legal profession and protect the public. But the current system, dominated by the Uniform Bar Examination, gets a failing grade from Joan Howarth, an academic, an attorney and the author of Shaping the Bar: The Future of Attorney Licensing.

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