JANUARY 2016
FEBRUARY 2016
First Focus
Around the ABA
- ABA leaders address House of Delegates on progress diversifying profession, membership value and ABA work
- Initiatives underway to improve police-community relations, but some say change is too slow
- Competitive nature, stress mix to produce drinking, behavioral health problems among lawyers
- School-to-prison pipeline expands, even as innovative diversion efforts blossom
- Panelists urge public health approach to gun violence
- Californians tackle long-term water management as drought enters 5th year
- ABA honors 4 diversity trailblazers
- ABA examines religious freedom and LGBT rights following same-sex marriage ruling
- ABA panel highlights successful re-entry programs in the fight against collateral consequences
- Should electoral districts count only voters rather than all residents?
- ABA group finds "Stand Your Ground" laws ineffectual and dangerous
- Lawyers observe detention conditions at U.S.–Mexico border
AUGUST 2016
First Focus
Around the Annual Meeting
- FBI director defends Clinton email decision, calls for national conversation on security
- Top TV screenwriters on the CSI effect, O.J. and aspiring to show law as a "noble beast"
- "The nation needs you now," California chief justice tells the ABA
- ABA Medal recipient Dennis Archer urges legal profession to continue to promote diversity
- Public health experts: US not prepared to tackle Zika crisis
- Fortune 500 general counsels: Diversity and inclusion make good business sense
- Computer fraud statutes need 21st century update, urges ABA panel
- Border security inadequate protection against terrorist threats, say panelists
- Experts survey landscape of new voting laws that impact upcoming elections
- Panelists discuss possible immigration reform under new US president, urge support for refugees
- Driverless cars in fast-lane development, yet regulations lag, say panelists
- Outgoing ABA president passes gavel; New leadership shares upcoming priorities
- Futures Commission issues final report: We must embrace change now
- NAACP chief legal officer keynotes Pro Bono Publico Awards, honors 5 legal luminaries
- Bar passage proposal underscores tension between consumer protection and diversity concerns
- Panelists say international sports governance needs overhaul, as Rio Olympics begin
- Militarization of police has gone too far, say ABA panelists
- As 17 states enact new voter laws, panelists disagree on their impact on voting
- Sexual assault on college campuses violates Title IX mandates, say experts
- Failure to adequately address mass refugee migrations is the real crisis, immigration experts say
- Women lawyers honored with 2016 Margaret Brent Awards