In August 1992, the American Bar Association held its annual meeting in San Francisco. It was there that, by a vote of 276 to 168, the ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates endorsed pro-choice legislation that was pending before Congress. This…

Long ago and far away, when I was a student at Columbia, we boys wore Oxford cloth shirts, silk ties, and we shaved, washed our hair, and showed up in class with our teeth brushed and our breath fresh and…

The problem with our legal system, comedian Steven Wright points out, is that “99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.” He must have hit a nerve. In 2006, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America realized their…