The ABA House of Delegates has adopted a policy urging states, localities and territories to develop written contingency plans to preserve the election process in the event of an emergency.
William C. Hubbard accepted the gavel as the new president of the ABA, and quickly set about exhorting the House of Delegates and all lawyers to follow the courage of…
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking to the ABA House of Delegates, delivered some choice humor, an informative lecture on the history of Magna Carta and a call…
In his end-of-term speech to the House of Delegates Monday morning, the ABA’s outgoing president James Silkenat detailed a long list of efforts by the association in the past year.…
At its first public hearing, the ABA’s new Task Force on the Financing of Legal Education spent much of its time trying to determine exactly what is leading to increases…
In 2013, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in U.S. v. Windsor and cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California with…
Despite progress on many fronts for women in the legal profession, the still-steep path to equality was a recurring theme at the annual Margaret Brent Lawyers of Achievement Awards Luncheon…
The ABA General Assembly on Saturday in the capacious Veterans Memorial Auditorium at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center was a patriotic affair, with a fife and drum rendition of the “Star-Spangled…
So-called low-tech lawyers who pine for the bygone days before the Internet, the cloud and social media will have to get used to the fact that there is no turning…
Immigration detainees face an uphill battle to avoid deportation, and oftentimes they have to face government lawyers without representation of their own.
Two days before his term as ABA president comes to an end, James R. Silkenat made one more impassioned plea for action by the legal profession and other groups to…
A disaster-relief mobile app that provides individuals with legal information, resources, and forms for assistance. An interactive tool that calculates whether a user is eligible for indigent legal services, as…
The legal services delivery environment is changing with supersonic speed as technology brings new innovations. But these new methods of delivering and marketing legal services still must pass muster under…
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