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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 people nationwide answered questions about how legal employers revised policies and procedures and wh...

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 would've 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 School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Union Internationale des Avocats in Paris. She also, from h...

Albany arrest-diversion program favors fewer - and whiter - residents Is a policing reform initiative failing to address racial disparities? FacebookTwitterEmail 2of11 Black residents account for only 34% of the people diverted into an alternative treatment program called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion. (Cathleen F. Crowley & Eduardo Medina / Times Union)Cathleen F. Crowley/Eduardo Medina/Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 3of11 A year after Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins was sworn in, the number of people diverted through LEAD dropped from 87 in 2018 to 35 in 2019. Now, data shows the progr...

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 Georgia, handles as many as 200 to 250 cases involving misdemeanors and traffic offenses in state c...

Inside the dia and other intelligence agencies enough so that he was forced out by senior intelligence leaders in the administration. >> the quote is that he had a contention management style jim shutdo. stand by. i want to bring in david gergen. talk the me and to our audience about the national security adviser. what role does he play among the president's advisors. how important is temperament here? >> temp earnment is important. the gold standard is brent skull croft, who served under george bush senior as national security adviser. the role then and since has been seen as honest broker. d...