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The article announces Idaho State Bar (ISB) members that have been admitted to the bar in 1974 which include lawyers Stephen M. Ayers, James A. Bevis, and Stephen C. Brown.

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The article explores the requirements of the NextGen Bar and its correlation to several American Bar Association (ABA) for American Law School's Legal Education Programs. Cited are the areas and structure of the NG-Bar in relationship to ABA Standard 302, the nexus between the NG-Bar and ABA Standards 304 and 314, and recommendations to ABA accredited law schools in preparing future lawyers for the complex practice of law.

Although the very concept of law school rankings is currently under fire, rankings abolitionism is misplaced. Given the number, diversity, and geographic dispersion of the more than 190 law schools fully accredited by the American Bar Association, rankings are essential to enable various stakeholders to make comparisons between schools. However, the current rankings landscape is dire. The U.S News law school rankings rely on poorly designed, highly subjective surveys to gauge "reputational strength," rather than looking to easily available, objective citation data that is more valid and reliable. Would-be usurpers of U.S. News use better data but make other arbitrary choices that limit and distort their rankings. One flaw common to U.S. News and those who would displace it is the fetishization of minor differences in placement that do not reflect actual differences in substance. This information is worse than trivial: it is actively misleading. This Article proposes a new set of law school rankings free from all of these defects. The Forward-Looking Academic Impact Rankings ("FLAIR rankings") introduced in this Article are based on data that shows how many times law review articles by each of 5,139 individual faculty members at 191 American law schools have been cited by other law review articles in the last five years. The FLAIR rankings can be used as an objective guide to the relative academic impact of law schools, or as a component in broader objective rankings. The FLAIR rankings are based on publicly available, reliable, and objective data obtained from law school websites and the research platform HeinOnline. The FLAIR rankings include all fully ABA-accredited law schools, unlike alternative rankings of academic influence that are selective, often arbitrarily so. Moreover, the FLAIR rankings are designed to impart meaningful information by clustering schools into tiers based on their distance from the mean of all schools and deemphasizing ordinal rankings. Thus, the FLAIR rankings enable readers to make rational comparisons between law schools, rather than simply creating a hierarchy for hierarchy's sake. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to ask female lawyers about gender discrimination and sexual harassment in Pakistan, a conservative and patriarchal society. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among women lawyers working in the five largest bar associations in the province of Punjab, Pakistan (including: Multan, Bahawalpur, Lahore, Faisalabad, and Rawalpindi). Women lawyers stated that gender discrimination and sexual harassment are prevalent. Most female lawyers experienced discouragement, disrespect, and gender discrimination by their colleagues, clients, and police officials. Female lawyers also experienced sexual harassment from male colleagues and litigants in their workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout history - from Roman times to the present - there have been numerous examples of how important the legal profession is for society. In every proceeding they are involved in and noble cause they champion, legal professionals contribute to protecting not only their clients' interests, but also those of society as a whole. From an individual's law of the skill (lex artis) to collective responsibility, and from the specifics of a case to the more generalised search for justice, the legal profession's role in society has been evident for centuries, to the extent that it is now an essential component of the principle of effective judicial protection. Bar associations have also contributed by ensuring that lawyers are able to exercise their legally established mandate freely and independently while ensuring that the rules of law and professional conduct are complied with. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the 2023-2024 Annual Reports of various sections and divisions of the Florida Bar. Topics include some of the conclusions drawn from a meeting held by the Administrative Law section in Apalachicola, Florida on August 11, 2023 such as the need to increase its annual membership fee to account for its larger size, an increase in the number of membership of the Alternative Dispute Resolution section, and the activities of the Animal Law Section during the 2023-2024 Bar year.

The article addresses the significance of lawyer discipline to the practice of law and lawyer regulation system in Florida. Topics include the roles of the Florida Bar in investigating and prosecuting lawyers who are alleged to have violated the rules of professional conduct, an overview of the significant changes made by the Florida Supreme Court to the Bar rules applicable to lawyer discipline in the state between January 2021 and March 2024, and the purposes of the lawyer discipline system.

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The international survey, which aimed to assess the well-being and mental health of legal professionals worldwide, found that more than a third of the lawyers surveyed believe that work has a negative impact on their mental state and well-being. In addition, the survey found that 29% of the respondents had experienced suicidal thoughts or actions at some point in their career, and 45% reported experiencing stress-related health problems (International Bar Association, 2021). The aim of this study is to theoretically describe and practically explore aspects of well-being and the factors influencing it, as well as the needs of investigators, prosecutors and judges and the possibilities of supervision in promoting well-being. Two questionnaires 'Professional well-being' and 'Professional needs' were developed. The survey was carried out among 354 respondents: judges, prosecutors and investigators. It was concluded that the mental health, workload, work–life balance, knowledge, development and socialisation needs of judges, prosecutors and investigators are influenced by the need for a supportive working environment and psychological support, which determine the possibilities for supervision. At the same time, there are statistically significant differences between the job satisfaction, mental health and work–life balance of investigators, prosecutors and judges. There are also statistically significant differences between judges', prosecutors' and investigators' needs for support, knowledge and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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