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Bates & Cash at the Capitol (Editorial)

Johnny Cash will join Daisy Bates at the U.S. Capitol, and we couldn’t be happier. read more >
Industry / Legal / Media & Marketing

AI’s Legal Magic: Despite Pitfalls, Attorneys Test Machine Learning

Arkansas firms are wading carefully into the AI world, with human lawyers double- and triple-checking AI’s work in e-discovery, brief-writing and research. read more >
Legal / Media & Marketing

Little Rock Lawyer Philip Anderson Dies at 88

One of just three Arkansans to lead the American Bar Association, Anderson was a member of the board of Wehco Media of Little Rock, parent company of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and a trustee of the Central Arkansas Library system. read more >
Dean Margaret Sova McCabe has plans for the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Education / Legal / Media & Marketing

Arkansas Law Schools Prepare to Go Largely Digital

Law professors at the UA School of Law and the UA Little Rock’s Bowen School of Law spent their summer vacations preparing for both in-person and online classes, a trend that could continue after the pandemic fades. read more >
Howard W. Brill made an ethics presentation recently questioning the propriety of lawyers’ use of GoFundMe.
Legal / Media & Marketing

Howard Brill Questions Legal Ethics of GoFundMe

Howard Brill, the renowned University of Arkansas School of Law professor, told a group of attorneys last week that he was troubled by a case involving a Little Rock lawyer who started a GoFundMe campaign to fund a lawsuit. read more >
Cynthia Nance
Business Services / Education / Legal

Cynthia Nance Recognized by American Bar Association (Movers & Shakers)

Cynthia Nance of Fayetteville has been chosen to receive the American Bar Association’s 2018 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award. read more >
Bill Waddell won the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award for his legal contributions to the medical-legal partnership that works with the Mid-Delta Health Systems in Clarendon.
Banking & Finance / Business Services / Education

Pro Bono Work Can Also Be Good For Business, Bill Waddell Says

When Little Rock attorney Bill Waddell found himself in the national spotlight in August, he embraced it to spread the word on the first rural legal-medical partnership in Arkansas. read more >
The ABA specifically recognized Bill Waddell’s work with the medical-legal partnership that supports the work of the Mid-Delta Health Clinic in Clarendon.
Government & Politics / Insurance / Legal

Bar Association Honors Attorney Bill Waddell for Pro Bono Work (Movers & Shakers)

Bill Waddell was recognized earlier this month as one of five recipients of the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award for 2017. read more >
Government & Politics / Legal

Bar Association ‘Troubled’ by Arkansas’ Multiple Execution Plan

The American Bar Association urged Arkansas to back away from its unprecedented plan to put seven men to death over 10 days starting next week. read more >
Janet Pulliam
Health Care / Legal

Janet Pulliam To Chair Bar Association’s Committee for Breast Cancer (Movers & Shakers)

Janet L. Pulliam, an attorney of counsel with Mitchell Blackstock Ivers Sneddon & Marshall in Little Rock, has been named chair of the American Bar Association’s National Breast Cancer Initiatives Executive Committee for 2016-17. read more >
Education / Legal

American Bar Association Chief to Speak to UA Law Students

Paulette Brown, president of the American Bar Association, is the scheduled keynote speaker for the University of Arkansas School of Law class of 2018 orientation. read more >
Michael Schwartz
Education / Legal

Arkansas Law Grads Still Finding Tight Market

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Bowen School of Law said it is reducing its enrollment for the fall because of the tight job market for new attorneys. read more >
In which new Arkansas lawyers find it tough to get a job.
Legal

The Job Market for New Lawyers: Now We Know For Sure That It’s As Bad As We Thought

Arkansas Business readers know it's been a tough few years for young lawyers fresh out of law school. And now the American Bar Association is backing up everyone's worst fears with cold, hard numbers. read more >