In a Tuesday meeting, the council for the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted to kill its diversity, equity and inclusion law school standard.
Political parties are entitled to discounts when they buy television ads in coordination with candidates, at least for now, the Supreme Court said Friday—potentially handing a near-term win to the GOP, which has a much larger pot of money than the Democratic Party heading into the midterm elections.
The high-profile trial of Lindsay Clancy ended in a mistrial Friday after a Massachusetts jury could not reach a unanimous decision in the triple-murder case.
Former Colorado Supreme Court justice Melissa Hart takes the helm of the ABA’s legal education council as it faces unprecedented challenges to its role as the nation’s law school accreditor.
The makeup exam earlier this week following the scrapped administration of the NextGen Uniform Bar Examination in Washington in July was successfully administered for 171 bar candidates, according to sources.
The national mean score for the July 2026 Multistate Bar Examination decreased about 1.7 points to 140.7 compared to the July 2025 mean of 142.4—the first decrease since 2022, according to data released Tuesday from the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Lawyers who have clients with “decision-making limitations” must maintain the ordinary lawyer-client relationship as much as possible, according to a new ethics opinion from the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
Anthony Sbardellati had an epiphany as a BigLaw first-year associate. He was working on a trial team, taking depositions and writing motions. A firm rainmaker summoned him into his office regarding a brief the 26-year-old had written.
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed construction to continue on the White House ballroom, handing President Donald Trump a victory as he races to complete the largest expansion to the executive mansion in decades.
The much-anticipated crisis brought on by changes in federal regulations regarding financial aid has not manifested—yet. That’s the conclusion of law deans contacted by the ABA Journal, as well as officials at the Law School Admission Council and the AccessLex Institute.
