Recently, one of my buddies was distraught. I’ve known him for almost 20 years; I could tell something was weighing heavily on his mind. I asked what was going on, and he... Read more »
U.S. Supreme Court The October 2025 term officially begins, as always, on the first Monday in October, and once more there is a strong sense that it is going to be a... Read more »
“So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye.” No, this story has nothing to do with the von Trapps. I recently made a destiny moment decision: I tossed out my McGill University law schoolbooks.... Read more »
In the early 1990s, I was a young attorney in Chicago fresh out of law school, still learning how to balance the weight of a big-firm briefcase with my own naive ambitions.... Read more »
If your firm focuses on a single practice area, your software options, historically, have been limited. Developing tools tailored to a specific practice area often didn’t pay off for vendors providing premises-based... Read more »
Editor’s Note: Starting in September, the Bryan Garner on Words column will be running monthly on ABAJournal.com. Although we hear a lot of talk about artificial intelligence, a large segment of the... Read more »
Ari Kaplan recently spoke to Anne Post, the CEO of Xakia Technologies’ North America division. Xakia Technologies is a provider of legal matter and contract management solutions. They discussed how law department... Read more »
As an attorney, I was trained to live inside documents: case files, depositions, transcripts, contracts and endless emails. As a novelist, I now live inside fictional worlds. At first, those roles may... Read more »
For several years, the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative implemented programs in Colombia to improve the capacity of judges and court personnel, combat human trafficking cases and public corruption, strengthen... Read more »
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” That quote, often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, kept running through my head as I read social media reactions related... Read more »