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Home Daily News Inmate, 83, is executed in death of federal… Death Penalty By Debra Cassens Weiss Posted April 20, 2018, 12:48 pm CDT An 83-year-old inmate executed on Thursday for a 1989 mail bombing that killed a federal appeals judge is the oldest person executed in the modern era of capital punishment, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Walter Leroy Moody Jr. was executed in Alabama for the death of Judge Robert Vance of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, report the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR and AL.com. Vance had been part of an en banc court that refused to overturn Moody’s conviction for possessing a pipe bomb that detonated and injured his wife. Moody was also convicted in the mail bombing death of civil rights lawyer Robert Robinson of Savannah, Georgia, which occurred two days after Vance’s death. Prosecutors have said they believed the Robinson bombing was a diversion. Investigators believed Moody concocted … [Read more...] about Inmate, 83, is executed in death of federal appeals judge; FBI had investigated ABA Journal letter

Home Daily News ABA Journal wins best Web News Section and… EDITOR'S NOTE Posted May 11, 2018, 3:09 pm CDT ABAJournal.com won a national gold medal for best Web News Section and the ABA Journal received an honorable mention for Magazine of the Year in its revenue category at the 2018 Azbee Awards. The awards, given by the American Society of Business Publication Editors on Thursday in Washington, D.C., recognize outstanding work by business-to-business, trade, association or professional publications. The ABA Journal also won four other national gold awards for news features, government coverage and design. A complete list of the ABA Journal’s national Azbee awards: National Gold Awards Azbee Category: Online > Web News SectionTitle of Entry: ABA Journal: Law News NowAwarded to: Debra Weiss, senior writer; Sarah Mui, assistant managing editor; Stephen Rynkiewicz, web producer; Lee Rawles, associate editor; Stephanie Francis Ward, senior writer; Andrew Lefkowitz, deputy … [Read more...] about ABA Journal wins best Web News Section and other national honors at 2018 Azbee Awards

Home Daily News It's time to enter the ABA Journal's Ross… Law in Popular Culture By Debra Cassens Weiss Posted May 16, 2018, 12:55 pm CDT It’s time to get creative. The ABA Journal is accepting entries to its 2018 Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction through 5 p.m. CDT on June 1. Your original work of fiction should illuminate the role of law or lawyers in society, and should be no longer than 5,000 words. The author of the winning entry will receive $3,000. Entries will be judged on the basis of creativity, plot exposition, legal insight and character development. Last year’s winner was Linda Oatman High, who wrote The Attorney Helped Clean Up The Blood, published here. Only one entry is allowed per person, and the author must be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident. Entries must be submitted online, and they must be unpublished or published no earlier than Jan. 1, 2018. Though authors retain copyright in their works, the winning author grants the ABA … [Read more...] about It’s time to enter the ABA Journal’s Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction

Home Daily News Little agreement between the sexes on tackling… Women in the Law By Barbara Frankel and Stephanie Francis Ward Posted July 24, 2018, 6:10 am CDT FabrikaSimf / Shutterstock.com The impact of the #MeToo movement on the American workplace is already apparent less than a year after several powerful men were charged in late 2017 with sexually harassing women. It seemed like a story taking place in Hollywood, Washington, D.C., and Wall Street, but as #MeToo went viral on social media, women across the country came forward to tell their stories and share their collective unease about being safe at work. We wanted to know how these headlines were playing out in organizations throughout America, so we surveyed almost 3,000 employees of businesses and law firms to examine sexual harassment in the workplace, how often incidents were reported, what prevented people from speaking up and whether senior leaders are stepping up to create environments where harassment or … [Read more...] about Little agreement between the sexes on tackling harassment, Working Mother/ABA Journal survey finds

Home Daily News Story about overworked public defender is… Law in Popular Culture By Debra Cassens Weiss Posted August 3, 2018, 12:08 pm CDT Courtesy of Lisa Taylor. A federal law clerk in Wilmington, North Carolina, has won the 2018 ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction for her story about an overworked federal public defender who represents a man on a drug charge that could get him 10 to 40 years in prison. Lisa Taylor is the winner of the $3,000 prize. Her winning entry, Guardians of the Sixth Amendment, was judged the top story from among 87 entries. Taylor, a North Carolina lawyer, clerked last year for a federal bankruptcy judge in Raleigh and is currently clerking for a federal magistrate judge in Wilmington. Though she has dabbled in writing fiction for fun, she has never had a story published. Taylor told the ABA Journal in an email that she is honored to have won the contest and “incredibly thrilled” for the story of her fictional … [Read more...] about Story about overworked public defender is winner of ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest