Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz discussed the agency’s law enforcement actions and initiatives Nov. 17 at the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section’s Fall Forum in Washington, D.C. The conference of antitrust lawyers, government enforcers and scholars also included a discussion of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Experts from around the country weighed in on the impact of federal budget cuts on the implementation of the recent healthcare reform at the American Bar Association’s Washington Healthcare Summit in Pentagon City Tuesday. The two­­-day event was sponsored by the ABA Health Law Section.

U.S. President Barack Obama is calling for cybersecurity legislation, but the legal and policy issues arising out of cyberwarfare are largely unsettled. So when the American Bar Association assembled a panel of experts on June 13 to discuss recent developments in cyberwarfare law, they called their program “Cyberwarfare Law and Frontier Justice: What’s the Law, Who’s the Judge, and Where’s the Authority?”

ABA President Stephen N. Zack barnstormed through his home state, speaking to new graduates from law schools at the University of Florida, Florida State University and Saint Thomas University School of Law. Zack urged young lawyers to focus on just four words: “Equal Justice Under Law,” inscribed above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court building.

How does a U.S. lawyer select an on-the-ground foreign counsel when contemplating an international transaction? Are the expectations for electronic billing and conflicts check similar in developing nations and Europe, as they are in the United States? What are some cultural and language issues about which to be cognizant?

Immediate Past-President of the American Bar Association Carolyn Lamm spoke today at a Washington Foreign Law Society luncheon in Washington, D.C., about her efforts as the ABA’s representative to the United Nations to develop a system of civil responsibility for states that engage in state-sponsored violence against women as a weapon of war, and a system of reparations to victims from offending states.

A delegation from Georgia participated in a “Dialogue on Strategies to Save Money, Reform Criminal Justice and Keep the Public Safe,” on Friday, May 6 at the American Bar Association in Washington, D.C.

As holidays go, you likely won’t find the words “Law Day” pre-printed on any desk calendars, but for lawyers like Douglas K. Spaulding — who has represented three Guantanamo detainees petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus — the annual May 1 celebration is a reminder of the backbone of the legal profession: The United States Constitution.

An important exhibit on Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany is open to the public until April 8 at the American Bar Association headquarters in downtown Chicago. Created by the German Federal Bar, “Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany Under the Third Reich” tells the story of how the Hitler regime banned Jewish lawyers from practicing law in 1938, and the damage the ban caused to the legal profession and to the generational practice of law by German-Jewish families.

David Kris, retiring Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice speaks to lawyers at a lunch hosted in his honor by

the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security. As head of the National Security Division, Kris was responsible for the authorization of electronic surveillance or physical searches through cases brought before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Today’s hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee addressed the December 2010 vote by the Federal Communications Commission to adopt net neutrality rules. At issue: Should broadband be regulated, and if so, how? That was also the topic of debate during an American Bar Association Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law meeting held earlier this week.

Award-winning investigative reporter Dana Priest discussed the evolving relationship between the media and the national security world when she addressed the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security on March 3. The Washington Post journalist spoke about the implications of secrecy in the government, disclosures of classified information by the media and the WikiLeaks controversy.