ABA Journal

09/03/2025

Craving Connection: Lawyers, who face stress and adversarial work, experience more isolation than many professionals. https://ow.ly/Vlyx50WwhX1

09/03/2025

After more than 40 years in the solicitor general’s office, this lawyer says it was a privilege. https://ow.ly/ojle50WQFzr

09/03/2025

Your Voice - Not Chickening Out: The world's oldest profession is fighting. https://ow.ly/x7kz50WQF42

"Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed to have a battle; for Tweedledum said Tweedledee had spoiled his nice new rattle." —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

09/03/2025

Court is not "enforcement division" for "Miss Manners," concurring judge says as discipline case is tossed. https://ow.ly/I20r50WQAuv

The Kansas Supreme Court has rejected a recommended censure against a former district attorney who issued a press release questioning a chief judge’s statements about a plan to host jury trials at the county fairgrounds during the COVID-19 pandemic.

09/03/2025

Penn Law prof's discrimination claims "do not pass the plausibility test," judge says in tossing her suit.

A law professor suspended and reprimanded for remarks that “demeaned and denigrated racial minorities” can’t pursue her discrimination lawsuit in federal court, a federal judge in Philadelphia ruled last week.

09/03/2025

From Courtroom to Clickbait: Judge reflects on viral video livestreams in his court.

Wearing small round glasses, a floral suit and a bow tie, Judge David Fleischer brings a splash of personality to an otherwise solemn Harris County Criminal courtroom.

09/03/2025

Federal judge’s theory about shooter who wounded his law clerk leads to new trial for officers in Tyre Nichols case.

Three former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers have obtained a new trial on charges related to the 2023 beating death of a Black man because of allegations that the federal judge overseeing the case theorized that at least one of the defendants was a gang member and the gang was responsible for th...

09/02/2025

Survival Guide, Esq.: The importance of understanding the business of law firms. https://ow.ly/8WUu50Wwb4H

09/02/2025

Former BigLaw partner pleads no contest to alleged domestic abuse of wife who was later found dead in stairwell. https://ow.ly/7a6850WPT3A

A former Duane Morris partner pleaded no contest in Berrien County, Michigan, on Friday to charges of domestic abuse against his wife and interfering with her 911 call.

09/02/2025

Jailhouse informants testify they were asked to lie on behalf of Donna Adelson, woman on trial in law prof's murder.

Donna Adelson, on trial for the murder of former Florida State University law professor Dan Markel, allegedly offered gifts in exchange for false testimony that would support an acquittal, two jailhouse informants testified Friday.

09/02/2025

Prosecutors’ Pursuit: A timeline of the Dan Markel murder trials and convictions.

Prosecutors and police have worked for more than 11 years to solve the mystery surrounding the shooting death of Florida State University law professor Dan Markel, a criminal law professor who founded PrawfsBlog. It took nearly two years before a first arrest was made and more than two years before....

09/02/2025

ABA Members Who Inspire: Delcianna Winders has woven a web of animal law clinics and programs. https://ow.ly/PVz550WPKVi

They were some pigs. Much like Fern in Charlotte’s Web, young Delcianna Winders loved the two pet pigs that her father gave to her. She bottle-fed Olivia and Dodger as piglets in her bedroom in her family’s suburban home in Vallejo, California, where the animals lived in the back yard. It was te...