The ABA House of Delegates voted unanimously to give the Law Student Division a voice on the Board of Governors at the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto in August. The 2011-2012 year will be the first time since the division was created that they will be able to vote.

Business law is a common denominator among many of the most intriguing jobs in the national security and defense industries. Members of an American Bar Association Section of Business Law panel have worked in and around the fields of national defense and homeland security, from the military to TSA and beyond. Their perspectives on the trends and expansion of this practice area since 9/11 informed audience members about a career path they may not have appreciated.

Elaine R. Jones received the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities Thurgood Marshall Award Aug. 6 during the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto.

Marc W. Joseph, general counsel for Dallas-based Haggar Clothing Co., first hired outside lawyers 20 years ago when he was heading a major antitrust case for another company and needed document coding.

The ABA 2011 Annual Meeting, held August 4-9 in Toronto, is the premiere conference of legal professionals in the United States. Check here throughout the meeting for each day’s event highlights.

So much of the discussion on the evolving legal landscape has revolved around technology and bottom line. An American Bar Association Annual Meeting program Aug. 6 with general counsels, centered on those issues, focusing on human capital.

Sudevi Mukherjee-Gothi has an Asian-West Indian upbringing that she applied to her work. In “Allies, Influence, Power and Politics in the Office,” a program of the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in Toronto, she said that those values did her a disservice. They isolated her from her law firm colleagues and, after two years of hard work, Mukherjee-Gothi decided to leave the practice, thinking she wouldn’t advance at the firm.

Panelists Hon. Allan Gropper, Thomas S. Heather, Madame Justice Sarah Papall, and Andrew Kent discuss the operation of insolvency courts in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S., and how those courts interact when bankruptcy cases cross borders.

Panelists Kristi Gaines, Renato Izquieta, Carmen Daugherty, Antonia Fasanelli, and Elizabeth Yang discuss the draw of careers in public service with law students and young lawyers.

U.S. and Canadian experts weighed in on cross-border class action practices, protocols and issues yesterday at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting. Panelists of the program “Multi-Jurisdictional, Cross-Border, and International Class Actions: Where Are We Heading?” agreed that jurisdictional and due process procedures were the top challenges to successful cross-border cases.

How do lawyers achieve balance between successful, fulfilling careers and their personal lives? This question has become increasingly more difficult to answer given the economic downturn and technological advances that are changing the legal environment. These changes and their associated strain make the need for efficient stress and life-work management even more relevant to the profession.

When Frank Perdue launched his poultry company’s marketing slogan, “It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken,” it was a huge success in the United States. But its rollout in Mexico reportedly raised eyebrows and produced giggles instead. Apparently, the Spanish translation gives the slogan a raunchy sexual connotation.