American Bar Association
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 >
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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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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 >
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 >
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 >
by Mark Friedman -
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 >
by Lance Turner -