Amanda Robert

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Charity Anastasio and Micah Buchdahl share the opinion that the rules on multi-jurisdictional practice for attorneys need to be changed.

The mission of the new Above the Line Network is to bring together incubators, socially conscious law firms, nonprofit law firms and legal aid organizations to transform the delivery of legal services for the underserved middle class. (Image from Shutterstock)

Longtime civil rights advocate Emmet Bondurant “has pursued justice with unwavering integrity” throughout his career, according to the ABA, which on Monday announced that he would receive this year’s ABA Medal.

ABA President Mary Smith is urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Domestic Policy Council to honor due process when responding to conflicts at the U.S.-Mexico border. (Image from Shutterstock)

The 'Other Rosies'“I saw that the war effort was promoted through posters, and invariably these posters would be of Rosie the Riveter, of white women being the iconic symbol of the war effort at home,” Mark Gaston Pearce says. “I knew there were other Rosies, and those other Rosies needed to be represented.”

Nina Olson founded the Center for Taxpayer Rights after being in the IRS for 18 years. Her experience was "something I didn’t want to walk away from. I needed to share it in some way.” (Photo by Arnold Adler/ABA Journal)

ABA Treasurer Frank H. "Fritz" Langrock urged the House of Delegates to pass the dues increase. Photo by Mitch Higgins/ABA Media Relations.

Law schools will now be asked to explicitly protect free speech rights for faculty, students and staff as part of the ABA accreditation process. Though law school faculty have long enjoyed protections for academic freedom, this would be the first accreditation standard to address free speech for the entire community within law schools.