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Continuing Legal Education Here is a free online Continuing Legal Seven committees are established, including Education opportunity: Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Judicial Administration, Commercial Law, and Incivility in the Workplace International Law. Difficult people are everywhere. However, when we have them in the workspace it can create The ABA organizes just eight years after the major issues which influence personal health founding of one of the country’s oldest local bar and wellness. The legal field alone can be a very associations, the Association of the Bar of the stressful work setting; adding a hostile person in City of New York. the work environment can make it feel impossible to cope. This program will support Source: attorneys in understanding the psychological, http://abaleaders.org/timeline/index.html This Month in Legal History: Film Review Social Security Act Signed into Law by Leslie Strauss On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. RBG – A Documentary about Ruth Bader Roosevelt signs into law the Social Security Ginsburg Act. Press photographers snapped pictures as FDR, flanked by ranking members of Congress, Whoever would have imagined (other than those signed into law the historic act, which of us who work at a courthouse of course!) that guaranteed an income for the unemployed and one of the best independent films of 2018 would retirees. FDR commended Congress for what he turn out to be about a judge? RBG –as in Ruth considered to be a “patriotic” act. Bader Ginsburg—is just that film. While inspirational without a doubt, it is also an Roosevelt had taken the helm of the country in entertaining and interesting and at times funny 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, the documentary about the life and career of nation’s worst economic crisis. The Social Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Security Act (SSA) was in keeping with his other “New Deal” programs, including the The release of RBG has brought even more establishment of the Works Progress celebrity to the unlikely star, who was already Administration and the Civilian Conservation the subject of many memes (read: Notorious Corps, which attempted to hoist America out of RBG) and hilariously portrayed by Kate the Great Depression by putting Americans McKinnon on Saturday Night Live. All jokes back to work. aside, however, Justice Ginsburg is first and foremost an exceptional intellect who has spent In his public statement that day, FDR expressed much of her career fighting against gender concern for “young people [who] have come to discrimination. The film also shows a very wonder what would be their lot when they came human side to her, particularly in her long and to old age” as well as those who had devoted marriage to Martin Ginsburg, a employment but no job security. Although he respected lawyer in his own right and her acknowledged that “we can never insure one greatest supporter. hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes The release of RBG is especially timely in light of life,” he hoped the act would prevent senior of the recent appointment of Supreme Court citizens from ending up impoverished. Justice Neil Gorsuch and the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Although it was initially created to combat Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. In a unemployment, Social Security now functions time of such division in the Senate with Gorsuch primarily as a safety net for retirees and the being confirmed 54-45 and a close vote margin disabled, and provides death benefits to expected at Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, taxpayer dependents. The Social Security it is fascinating to note that Ruth Bader system has remained relatively unchanged since Ginsburg, nominated by President Bill Clinton 1935. in 1993, was confirmed by a 96-3 vote. Source: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-