Law school consumer information for the entering class of 2015 is now available on the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar’s website, the section said in…
Updated: In a 2013 speech delivered at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting, then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a new “Smart on Crime” initiative and called for a…
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy questioned Wednesday whether a case challenging affirmative action in college admissions should be returned to lower courts once again for more evidence about the need for…
The American Bar Association has filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to order a new sentencing hearing for a death row inmate because of “rare-but-egregious circumstances” involving…
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has approved for notice and comment a proposed change in the law school accreditation standards…
The ABA is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision favoring the Federal Trade Commission in its battle to obtain attorney documents regarding a drug company’s settlement agreement…
In August 2014, the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs and the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation announced that they were collaborating on a major research project to survey current rates…
The ABA Section of Litigation is hitting the road. The journey may lack the romantic flair of Jack Kerouac's 1957 classic On the Road or the poignancy of John Steinbeck's…
Dec 1, 2015 1:20 AM CST
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Lawyers should reduce limited-scope legal representation agreements to writing and should ask pro se litigants whether they are being represented by counsel to avoid violating the “no-contact” rule, explains a…
The adage that there's no place like home should not apply to dangerous wild animals, in the view of a growing number of organizations pushing for the adoption of laws…
Nov 1, 2015 1:00 AM CDT
Charla Nash, who underwent a full face transplant after a friend’s pet chimpanzee mauled her, speaks at a 2014 press conference on Capitol Hill. Getty Images
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When the ABA was planning the Opening Session for its London Sessions commemorating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta this summer, it wanted to strike just the right note…
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