9th Circuit won't reinstate Trump travel ban | Pacemaker data leads to arson arrest | ABA president blasts Trump tweets

ABA Journal's Top Stories of the Week
Friday, February 10, 2017

Data on man's pacemaker led to his arrest on arson charges

Feb 6, 2017, 7:00 am CST

Judicial independence 'not up for negotiation,' ABA president says in speech addressing Trump tweets

Feb 6, 2017, 12:03 pm CST

ABA House urges President Trump to withdraw travel ban

Feb 6, 2017, 7:00 pm CST

Proposal to tighten bar-pass standards for law schools rejected by ABA House

Feb 6, 2017, 3:33 pm CST

Akin Gump partner is arrested while wearing a disguise and trying to sell a sealed lawsuit, FBI says

Feb 8, 2017, 11:06 am CST

Did Kellyanne Conway's plug for Ivanka Trump violate ethics rules?

Feb 9, 2017, 1:09 pm CST

SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch calls attacks on judiciary 'demoralizing' and 'disheartening'

Feb 8, 2017, 4:43 pm CST

What would happen if Trump administration ignored a court order? Law profs consider the issue

Feb 7, 2017, 7:00 am CST

Judge wants review of legal bills after firms reveal 9,000 hours of 'inadvertent' double-billed time

Feb 8, 2017, 7:00 am CST

Subway 'foot-long' sandwich suit raises class action questions

Feb 1, 2017, 2:50 am CST

White supremacist fliers found on doors of Indiana University law profs and other faculty

Feb 8, 2017, 2:42 pm CST

Affluent students get law school merit scholarships while others foot the bill, study finds

Feb 8, 2017, 2:31 pm CST

Charlotte School of Law reportedly files teach-out plan to ABA

Feb 6, 2017, 9:19 am CST

Judge makes celibacy outside of marriage a condition of probation

Feb 7, 2017, 9:55 am CST

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Question of the Week

We want to hear from you

Do you apply lessons you learned playing sports to your work in law?

This month in the ABA Journal, legal writing expert Bryan Garner talks about the golf instruction he received as a youth by Harvey Penick--author of Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf.

Penick "was the gentlest imaginable coach, always saying, 'Why don't you try this?' or 'Why don't you try that?'" Garner writes.

So this week, we'd like to ask you: Do you apply lessons you learned playing sports to your work in law? Do you, like Garner, take cues from the skillful approach of a onetime coach? Answer in the comments.

Cartoon Contest

You write the caption

Submit your proposed caption by Sunday, Feb. 12, for this cartoon about a prisoner with balloons and a lawyer leaving prison. The winner of our February challenge will see his or her caption and credit printed in an upcoming issue of the ABA Journal.