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ABA Journal: Asked and Answered episodes

February 28, 2022 The country has a long way to go with ADA compliance, say 2 civil rights lawyers
Although the Americans with Disabilities Act is decades-old, many businesses, including law firms, continue to treat it as a suggestion, rather than federal law, according to Eve Hill and Jason Turkish, two lawyers who represent plaintiffs in disability cases.
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41 min
January 31, 2022 Control is often an issue in breakups, and COVID-19 made it worse, say 2 family law attorneys
Business hasn’t slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, which tore many couples apart, according to family law attorneys Stacy D. Phillips, who practices in Los Angeles, and Bonnie E. Rabin, who practices in New York. However, the COVID-19 crisis has made it easier to work together.
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40 min
December 27, 2021 Do federal jurors still care whether a witness is caught in a lie? Not as much, say 2 veteran litigators
Physical aspects aren’t the only changes in federal litigation, according to two veteran Chicago litigators. They think jurors, particularly those younger than age 40, are much more forgiving when a witness is caught lying, few care whether a party admits to drug use, and many expect significant documentation from law enforcement trying to defend misconduct charges.
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46 min
November 29, 2021 3 decades ago, legal headhunting required more time for fewer placements
The heavy, hardback editions of Martindale-Hubbell law directories, which were published annually and had different volumes for each jurisdiction, represented an important tool for executive search consultants back in the 1980s, before internet access was common, and lawyers’ backgrounds could only be found through paper or word of mouth.
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49 min
October 25, 2021 When most of law school faculty were straight white men, how did those who were not bring change?
In the late 1980s, law school groups for gay and lesbian students met off campus in case members didn’t want the school community to know their sexual orientation. And there were so few female faculty at law schools, if two or more were seen together talking, male faculty would ask what they were up to. So if they were actually up to something, such as persuading their dean to adopt a faculty parental leave policy that was longer than a few weeks, they would meet off campus, too.
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51 min
September 27, 2021 How has practicing in the Supreme Court changed throughout the years?
A few decades ago, there were no page limits for U.S. Supreme Court briefs, and that brought considerable headaches for the clerks who had to read them. Also, the justices rarely, if ever, asked more than 15 questions total during oral arguments. But that changed in 1986, after Antonin Scalia joined the high court.
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46 min
August 30, 2021 Following a viral video, Harvard Law School student finds ways to connect remotely
Many Harvard Law School students knew of classmate Rehan Staton through a July 2020 video that went viral, which featured him opening a Harvard Law School acceptance email. There’s a lot more to him than the video, and Staton wanted to connect with classmates more significantly while they attended remote classes over the past year.
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25 min
July 26, 2021 For this lawyer, becoming more flexible was a benefit of the pandemic
Lawyer Patrick Krill learned to be more flexible during the pandemic, with inspiration from "Be Water," an ESPN documentary about martial artist and actor Bruce Lee.
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37 min
June 28, 2021 Saying yes has been part of this law school dean’s strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic
As the dean of Pennsylvania State University's law school during the COVID-19 pandemic, and at a time of significant social unrest, Hari Osofsky tried to say yes whenever possible. Leadership involves taking in a variety of viewpoints, she explains, and recognizing what students, professors and administration want is a good way to guarantee people that they are being heard. Special thanks to our sponsor, LawPay.

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32 min
June 01, 2021 A year after his COVID-19 recovery, Above the Law founder David Lat makes some big changes
Lawyer and author David Lat thinks remote working for lawyers is here for the foreseeable future, and that’s just one of the many significant changes that he sees the pandemic bringing to the legal profession.
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36 min