The 2010 Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association Business Law Section in Denver, April 22-24, will feature discussions on financial services reform, identity theft, working with troubled companies, managing online reputations and board influence on corporate culture, among other topics. The meeting will take place in the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel.

How are new technologies affecting patent and copyright law? What impact does the Google books settlement have on authors, publishers and online competitors? What are the issues and solutions to problems arising from biosimilar regulation in the United States and abroad?

When foster care youth reach the age of 18, too often their safety net falls out from under them. They may be left without a family, without a place to sleep at night, without a high school diploma and without access to health care. The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, signed in October 2008, for the first time provides federal resources to help states support transitioning foster youth beyond age 18.

Attendance at the 2010 Bar Leadership Institute March 10-11 exceeded expectations, as more than 320 bar association leaders came together for the annual event in Chicago. Bill Bay, chair of the Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services, welcomed attendees, noting how coming together brings strength in numbers during these hard times.

American Bar Association public utility and energy lawyers met recently in Washington, D.C., to hear tips from U.S. Senate and House insiders as well as attorneys and policy experts from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Regulatory Commission and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

More than 200 of America’s top family law attorneys are set to convene in New Orleans to discuss leading family law issues, including custody involving special needs children, assisted reproductive technology laws, handling adoptions and late-in-life divorce. TheAmerican Bar Association Section of Family Law 2010 Spring CLE Conference will take place April 14 – 17, with headquarters at the Hotel Monteleone.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia will speak at the opening plenary of the American Bar Association 2010 Spring Legal Malpractice Conference in Washington, D.C., at 8:45 a.m. on Thursday, April 15, at the J. W. Marriott Hotel.

Why is today’s immigration court system functioning so poorly? What are the greatest pressure points on its operation? What should be the most urgent priorities for reform? A new, comprehensive study of the immigration adjudication process has been prepared for the American Bar Association, leading the association to consider a host of policy changes to fix the currently overwhelmed system.

Members of the ABA Business Law Section Banking Law Committee heard Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Neal Wolin explain why the Federal Reserve Bank is the government agency best equipped to oversee complex financial firms.

A recent survey of the top 200 law firms by the National Association of Women Lawyers found that 72 percent of respondents have no women among their top five rainmakers, and nearly half of respondents have no women in their top ten. To help address the gender disparity, a panel of women rainmakers at “Generating Business … Different Styles, Different Approaches,” during the Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference last month, shared advice to help women lawyers develop business.

In light of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent announcement regarding the prosecution process for some of the Guantanamo detainees, the podcast of a related ABA Law and National Security Conference panel is now available online..