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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 Entries must be submitted online, and they must be unpublished or published no earlier than Jan. 1, 2018.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 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 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 Massive restructuring at the ABA will rehouse… American Bar Association By Lee Rawles Posted April 5, 2018, 12:49 pm CDT The executive director of the ABA has announced the details of a major restructuring of the organization. Under the new structure, nine centers will be formed, each of which will fall under one of the four goals of the ABA: serving members; improving the profession; eliminating bias and enhancing diversity; and advancing the rule of law. In a memo to staff, ABA Executive Director Jack Rives said that this is the culmination of long-term discussions with the Board of Governors on how the association can operate more efficiently and with less funds. “Our current structure of divisions, committees, commissions, task forces, working groups, and other creatively named entities makes the Association extraordinarily difficult to access and costly to manage,” Rives wrote. “Our organization’s complexity has also impeded … [Read more...] about Massive restructuring at the ABA will rehouse entities under 9 centers

Home Daily News Courts have power to review travel ban, enforce… U.S. Supreme Court By Debra Cassens Weiss Posted April 2, 2018, 11:10 am CDT The ABA argues in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief that courts have the power to determine whether President Donald Trump’s latest travel bans violates the establishment clause and a statutory ban on national origin discrimination in immigration. The Supreme Court should “exercise its full power of judicial review to preserve and enforce fundamental constitutional and statutory limits on executive power,” the ABA brief says. The ABA filed the brief late Friday, according to an ABA press release. Arguments in the case, Trump v. Hawaii, are scheduled for April 25, according to an ABA Journal analysis of the case by University of California at law dean Erwin Chemerinsky. The latest and third travel ban, issued in September 2017, restricts travel to the United States from eight countries, including six predominantly Muslim … [Read more...] about Courts have power to review travel ban, enforce limits on executive power, ABA SCOTUS brief says