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 Entries must be submitted online, and they must be unpublished or published no earlier than Jan. 1, 2018.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
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ABA Journal wins best Web News Section and other national honors at 2018 Azbee Awards
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
Inmate, 83, is executed in death of federal appeals judge; FBI had investigated ABA Journal letter
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
Retired ABA Journal editor, a ‘classic Chicago journalist’ with deep ABA knowledge, dies at 67
James Podgers, a retired ABA Journal editor known for his deep knowledge of the American Bar Association and its inner workings, has died at the age of 67.Podgers died Thursday from islet cell neuroendocrine cancer, barely one year after his retirement. He had battled the cancer for 14 years, but that didn’t stop him from spending long days as an assistant managing editor sharpening copy and writing articles about two of his favorite topics: the association and international law.Podgers’ wife, Cis Redmond, said her husband would have wanted his specific cancer diagnosis in his obituary. “He would complain bitterly that obits usually don’t include the cause of death; I laugh thinking of him wondering how this or that person died, and he didn’t even know them!” she told the ABA Journal in an email.Podgers interviewed a wide range of people in his work for the ABA Journal. They included former President Gerald Ford, Telford Taylor (an attorney who … [Read more...] about Retired ABA Journal editor, a ‘classic Chicago journalist’ with deep ABA knowledge, dies at 67
North Carolina Central, Arizona Summit found out of compliance with ABA accreditation standards
Additionally, the section released a December 2017 accreditation committee decision (PDF) that the Appalachian School of Law remains noncompliant with Standards 501(a) and 501(b), which deal with law school admissions.Regarding North Carolina Central, the Jan. 4 letter (PDF) states that the accreditation committee found that the historically black university’s law school is not in compliance with Standard 501(b) and Interpretation 501-1, which states that factors to consider in determining compliance include academic and admission test credentials, the school’s academic attrition and recent graduates’ bar passage rates.Out of 104 North Carolina Central law school graduates who took the North Carolina state bar for the first time in July 2017, there was a 56.73 percent pass rate, according to information (PDF) released by the state’s board of bar examiners. The overall pass rate for North Carolina first-time test takers in July 2017 was 72.2 percent.The North … [Read more...] about North Carolina Central, Arizona Summit found out of compliance with ABA accreditation standards