(Photo by Barbara Kinney) In early 2015, Swapna Reddy volunteered for a week at the South Texas Family Residential Center, an immigration detention center near the U.S.-Mexico border that held thousands of... Read more »
(Photo by Kathy Anderson/ABA Journal) Some people talk about giving up their luxurious lifestyles to help those in need. In 1999, Roy Ferguson actually did it. He and his wife sold their... Read more »
Addie Tobin Smith (left) and Joanna Perini-Abbott co-chair the Licensure Pathway Development Committee for the Oregon State Board of Bar Examiners. (Photo by Michael Schmitt/ABA Journal) When the Oregon State Board of... Read more »
(Photo by Len Irish Photography/ABA Journal) Rodrigo Camarena has been advocating for immigrants since he was a child. By the time he was 8, this son of an electrical engineer father and... Read more »
(Photo of Noella Sudbury by Austen Diamond) Noella Sudbury knew she was onto something big when she helped organize Utah’s first free “Expungement Day” in 2018. The former public defender and Goldman... Read more »
(Photo of Jacqueline Schafer by Rick Dahms) Before artificial intelligence became a common legal tool, Jacqueline Schafer was hooked on it. This was back in 2018, and Schafer, a litigator who had... Read more »
(Photo of Joan Howarth by Nicole Sepulveda) For the last three decades, complaints about the bar exam were common but change was minimal. But Joan Howarth and Deborah Jones Merritt wanted to... Read more »
(Photo by Barbara Kinney) In early 2015, Swapna Reddy volunteered for a week at the South Texas Family Residential Center, an immigration detention center near the U.S.-Mexico border that held thousands of... Read more »
(Photo by Kathy Anderson/ABA Journal) Some people talk about giving up their luxurious lifestyles to help those in need. In 1999, Roy Ferguson actually did it. He and his wife sold their... Read more »
Addie Tobin Smith (left) and Joanna Perini-Abbott co-chair the Licensure Pathway Development Committee for the Oregon State Board of Bar Examiners. (Photo by Michael Schmitt/ABA Journal) When the Oregon State Board of... Read more »