An ABA ethics opinion issued today concludes that a state supreme court justice may sign a letter on the justice’s stationery that is then mailed by the state’s unified bar…
Some state and federal officials are considering whether laws barring ex-cons from certain jobs are leading to recidivism and keeping the prison population high.
Saying that a now-discredited Rolling Stone article about a claimed 2012 gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity portrayed her as the “chief villain,” an associate dean has filed…
Public interest groups are pointing to state bars as an example of state licensing boards that could be affected by a February decision by the U.S. Supreme Court involving a…
Corrected: To paraphrase Hillary Clinton, it takes a village in order to have true innovation within the legal industry—especially when it comes to closing the sizable gap between those who…
An ABA committee is recommending the elimination of a rule that allows most law schools to admit up to 10 percent of their entering classes with students who haven’t taken…
It might be strange to attend a conference about innovation in legal services and hear the names Carole King and Herbert Hoover invoked as major themes.
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