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An Interview With the ABA President-Elect

By Robert J. Ambrogi

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In August, Stephen N. Zack will become the first Hispanic-American president in the 132-year history of the American Bar Association. The 61-year-old partner with Boies, Schiller & Flexner in Miami is the son of a Cuban mother and American father. His family moved to Cuba shortly after he was born and he remained there until age 14. In his law practice, Zack is perhaps best known for representing Vice President Al Gore in the presidential-election trial of Bush v. Gore. His other notable clients include Philip Morris, the National Geographic Society, and former Florida governor and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham. He was also the first Hispanic-American president of the Florida Bar. On the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer this week, J. Craig Williams and I interview Zack about his agenda for his term as president. He talks about his plan to focus on civics education and to establish what he is calling the American Bar Academy. His plan is to set aside a three-day weekend during which ABA members would go into high schools across the country and present a civics curriculum to a selected group of high school juniors. He also discusses his plan to create an ABA commission on Hispanic...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).