2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

All Content > Data Journalism > Upper Midwest

Awarded to

Jason Tashea, Legal Affairs Writer; Danielle Braff, Reporter; Victor Li, Assistant Managing Editor

Entry details

State of the Profession

Issue or publication date: Sept. 1, 2019
Publication name: ABA Journal
Publishing company: ABA Journal
Website home page: abajournal.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

The ABA Journal is the flagship magazine for the American Bar Association and signature publication for the legal profession. The Journal is an award-winning, dynamic multimedia platform delivering legal journalism with an independent voice. The Journal informs, engages and stimulates important conversations that define the American legal system and help it respond to important issues of the day. The Journal and its companion website, newsletters and podcasts ensure it has among the largest readership of any legal publication in the world. While the Journal serves as a key benefit to members of the American Bar Association, it maintains editorial independence and integrity, allowing it to provide critical coverage of the trends, people and business of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

In August 2019, the ABA released data tracking various statistical markers relating to lawyers and the legal profession, including number of lawyers nationwide, geographic location, wages, demographics and employment. Building off that work, the ABA Journal took a deeper dive into two different areas augmenting and supplementing the data provided in the ABA’s report with original reporting and additional statistics. One feature examined lawyer compensation and integrated data from Martindale-Avvo and Major Lindsey & Africa. For the second feature, the Journal evaluated the best places to practice based on several different statistics and economic indicators, including cost of living, lawyer population and home values.

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http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/what-lawyers-earn
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the-best-places-to-practice
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/inside-the-legal-profession

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