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ABA Day 2025: Advocacy for every lawyer, everywhere

For decades, ABA Day has brought together legal professionals from across the country to advocate for critical issues affecting the legal profession and access to justice. In 2025, we are expanding this tradition to ensure that every lawyer—whether in Washington, online, or at home—can play an active role in shaping the future of the law.

Mar 20, 2025 3:00 PM CDT

St. Thomas College of Law falls out of compliance with ABA accreditation standard

The council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has found the St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law out of compliance with an ABA accreditation standard focused on sufficiency of financial resources and also denied its application to create a part-time hybrid-distance JD program.

Mar 19, 2025 2:53 PM CDT

How thinking like an athlete can make you a better lawyer

Peak performance in high-stress environments. It’s the goal for the basketball players taking the court during March Madness but just as much for players on a different kind of court. Lawyers can and should learn a lot from elite athletes.

Mar 19, 2025 11:00 AM CDT

When policies afford legal professionals discretion, they should choose to be trauma informed

Lawyers are big on adhering to statutes and caselaw precedents, contractual provisions and the clauses of internal governance documents, employee handbook policies, and terms from codes of conduct. But what happens when there is ambiguity?

Mar 17, 2025 3:01 PM CDT

State Bar of California considers provisional licenses for February bar exam takers

Updated: The State Bar of California’s Committee of Bar Examiners has placed the option of provisional licenses for candidates who fail or withdrew from the February California bar exam on the table.

Mar 17, 2025 2:32 PM CDT

Legal tech company Clio acquires AI-focused platform specializing in large firms

Legal technology company Clio announced Thursday that it acquired ShareDo, an artificial intelligence-focused platform specializing in large law firms.

Mar 14, 2025 2:18 PM CDT

DEI standard prompts Florida to reconsider ABA accreditation

Citing the ongoing controversy over diversity and inclusion in law school admissions, the Florida Supreme Court has created a workgroup to both reconsider its requirement that law students graduate from an ABA-accredited school to sit for the Florida bar exam and develop options for alternatives.

Mar 13, 2025 3:55 PM CDT

ABA announces finalists for 2025 Silver Gavel Awards

The ABA has selected 24 finalists from the 122 entries it received for this year’s Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts.

Mar 13, 2025 12:15 PM CDT

ABA rapid-response series explains evolving legal and policy concerns

In a new rapid-response project, the ABA is providing guidance on pressing legal and policy issues that have unfolded under President Donald Trump’s administration.

Mar 13, 2025 11:24 AM CDT

More first-time bar candidates passed exam in 2024, new ABA data shows

The percentage of successful first-time bar exam takers in 2024 increased more than 3 percentage points from a year earlier, according to data released Wednesday by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

Mar 12, 2025 2:25 PM CDT

This year’s historic ABA Techshow will be bigger than ever

It’s that time of year again. This year’s ABA Techshow 2025 will be a historic one for a couple of reasons.

Mar 12, 2025 9:07 AM CDT

Texas commits to NextGen bar exam starting in 2028, NCBE says

Texas will begin administering the NextGen bar exam starting in July 2028, joining 36 of the 56 jurisdictions that test bar candidates, according to a March 11 press release from the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

Mar 11, 2025 2:29 PM CDT

Foreign-aid pause likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules in ABA case

A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration’s “sudden, blanket suspension of congressionally appropriated” foreign aid was likely arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and was likely a violation of the constitutional separation of powers.

Mar 11, 2025 11:42 AM CDT

Trump order blocks public service loan forgiveness for employees of ‘activist organizations’

Employees of “activist organizations” that support activities with a “substantial illegal purpose” should no longer be eligible for a student loan forgiveness program for borrowers in public service jobs, according to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Friday.

Mar 10, 2025 11:18 AM CDT

AI adoption is growing, but some are hesitant, new ABA tech survey finds

Artificial intelligence isn’t replacing lawyers, but it is transforming how they work. From contract review to litigation strategy, firms are figuring out where AI adds value and where it falls short, according to the 2024 Legal Technology Survey Report just released by the ABA.

Mar 7, 2025 1:20 PM CST

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