It was, ironically, a meeting of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee. The American Bar Association (ABA) Web site for the section explains that the Labor and Employment Law section consists of “22,000+ members [who] represent all perspectives of labor and employment law: employer, union, employee, public, [...]
When Emma Lively slipped in a California Wild Oats market, she probably had little idea that in less than a year she would be petitioning the Supreme Court to hear her case.
Like many cases, Lively and her lawyer, after losing on a jurisdictional issue in the Ninth Circuit, were going to cut their losses because [...]
The time finally came to attend my first law deans’ conference, “Competitive Success and Academic Values: Balancing Competing Pressures.” Each year the conference is held in conjunction with the mid-winter meeting of the American Bar Association. This year it was in Miami. Yeah, I know, tough life. (Did this mean I could wear sandals?)
I [...]