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/PRNewswire/ -- Hahn & Hahn LLP announced that its Mangaging Partner Christianne Kerns and Partner Laura Farber have been selected as honorees in a Los Angeles...

Mary Smith of Illinois is the ABAs next president-elect nominee. It became official after the House of Delegates Nominating Committee voted to select Smith on Sunday and presented her nomination to the full House of Delegates during the 2022 ABA Midyear Meeting on Monday.

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How pandemic practice left lawyer-moms on the verge Photo illustration by Elmarie Jara/ABA Journal It is a law of physics that two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Otherwise, matter can collapse in on itself like a black hole. If ever there was a moment when the principles of quantum mechanics applied to American households, this is it. After protracted stay-at-home measures with family members confined together—working, studying, struggling—the bottom fell out, exposi...

How should the legal profession navigate a post-COVID-19 world? ABA group has recommendations   Images from Shutterstock.com. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the ABA initiated one of the largest national surveys of its members, seeking to understand both how they had been affected and how they expected their practice to evolve in the future. Practicing Law in the Pandemic and Moving Forward: Results and Best Practices from a Nationwide Survey of the Legal Profession, published Monday by the Coordi...

ABA’s Practice Forward group puts focus on members needs, well-being   Image from Shutterstock.com. The challenges confronting the legal profession as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have been a prime focus of the 2021 ABA Midyear Meeting. In the first CLE program Wednesday, the ABA Coordinating Group on Practice Forward provided a sneak peek at results of a new ABA survey seeking to better understand issues that have impacted lawyers at work and at home. In September and October, 4,400 pe...

ABA is on a ‘promising path forward,’ President Patricia Lee Refo says     ABA President Patricia Lee Refo addressed the House of Delegates remotely during their session at the midyear meeting. Since taking office, ABA President Patricia Lee Refo has maintained a schedule of events that wouldve once been unimaginable. She told the House of Delegates at the 2021 ABA Midyear Meeting on Monday that in 2½ consecutive days last fall, she spoke at virtual events hosted by the Harvard Law Scho...

CLE Programs Wednesday, February 17, 2021 10:30 – 11:30 AM CST | Practice Forward—State of the Art Best Practices for a Profession Impacted by the Pandemic Sponsored by: Office of the President Co-Sponsored by: Diversity and Inclusion Center; Law Practice Division; Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division The pandemic has had a profound impact on everyone, including members of the legal profession. Anticipating the need for substantial changes to the practice of law going forward, th...

Meet 14 ABA members who inspired us in 2020 Year in Review     Throughout the year, the ABA Journal profiles exceptional ABA members in its Members Who Inspire series. In 2020, we featured attorneys from across the country whose important and influential work includes using visual storytelling for legal advocacy, bringing attention to the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women, and combating racial injustice and inequity. LaToya Bell, an assistant public defender in Houston County in...