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February 6, 2012

Court Funding Crisis, Responsibility of Profession Common Themes in Remarks Before the ABA House of Delegates

During the House of Delegates gathering at the Midyear Meeting in New Orleans, an array of high-level speakers addressed the policy-making body of the ABA. In welcoming House delegates to New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu stressed that lawyers are the protectors of liberty.

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February 6, 2012

Task Force Finds Court Underfunding Still a Crisis, Business Partnership an Opportunity

“We all accept the premise that one branch can’t kill the other off,” said Covington & Burling LLP partner Thomas Barnett—but politicians, judges and lawyers at the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Preservation of the Justice System hearing cautioned that cuts to state court budgets are all but lethal.

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February 5, 2012

Law Firms Prime Targets of Cyber Attacks

“There is no target in the U.S. that cannot be successfully attacked today,” said Stewart Baker, talking about cyber security. Baker is a partner at Steptoe & Johnson and served as a panelist at a program on the issue at the American Bar Association’s Midyear Meeting in New Orleans.

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February 4, 2012

Pipeline Diversity Program Honored for Exemplary Leadership in Diversifying Law Profession

When the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives started in 1967, its leaders could only locate 25 Native American attorneys in the country. “That was out of 560 tribes,” says Heidi Nesbitt, PLSI director and the American Indian Law Center’s assistant director.

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February 4, 2012

Understanding ESI Concept, Scope Imperative to Effective Client Representation, Say ABA Panelists

ESI stands for “electronically stored information,” but, in effect, the “E” also means “evidence,” noted Illinois lawyer discipline counsel Wendy Muchman at an ABA Midyear Meeting session Feb. 3 on e-discovery, public records and metadata sponsored by the ABA Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division.

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