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Members’ involvement is vital in ongoing ABA efforts to lobby Congress

When the 114th Congress convened in January, it ushered in a new era with the retirement of the last of the “Watergate babies” elected in 1974 and a dramatic shift to a Congress under complete Republican control for the first time in nearly a decade. In addition, the average age…

Apr 1, 2015 12:50 AM CDT

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NOTICE BY THE SECRETARY REGARDING ELECTION OF DELEGATES-AT-LARGE Pursuant to § 6.5 of the ABA Constitution, six Delegates-at-Large to the House of Delegates will be elected at the 2015 Annual Meeting for three-year terms beginning with the adjournment of that meeting and ending with the adjournment of the 2018 Annual…

Apr 1, 2015 12:45 AM CDT

Winning app at Hackcess to Justice New Orleans helps clients preserve evidence

Ensuring that all Americans have sufficient access to justice has been one of the top priorities of the American Bar Association. One of the states with the largest gaps between the demand for legal services and the availability of adequate legal resources is Louisiana. According to the National Association of…

Mar 23, 2015 4:15 PM CDT

Legal Ed Section’s council approves change in reporting of school-funded jobs

The governing Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has approved a proposal to change the way law schools classify school-funded jobs in their reporting of graduate employment outcomes. The change, recommended by the Section’s Data Policy and Collection Committee, will create a new…

Mar 16, 2015 5:20 PM CDT

Student winners of ABA’s Magna Carta video competition are named

Four Arizona high school students have won first place in an ABA video competition with the theme “Magna Carta: What’s So Great about the ‘Great Charter’?” The students will get a free three-day trip to Washington, D.C., for winning the competition commemorating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. They…

Mar 16, 2015 2:11 PM CDT

Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence Tribe are among this year’s Silver Gavel nominees

University of California at Irvine law dean Erwin Chemerinsky is pitted against his mentor and one-time constitutional law professor, Harvard Law School’s Laurence Tribe, in the books category of the 2015 ABA Silver Gavel Awards for Media and Arts. The ABA announced 14 finalists on Wednesday for its Silver Gavel…

Mar 11, 2015 11:48 AM CDT

ABA committee to consider changes in reporting of law school entering class credentials

An ABA committee is considering a proposed change in the way law schools are required to report admissions data and entering class credentials. Under the current regime, law schools are required to report 25th, 50th and 75th percentile LSAT scores and undergraduate grade point averages for those who apply, receive…

Mar 6, 2015 9:15 AM CST

ABA backs constitutional right to gay marriage in SCOTUS brief

The ABA has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause requires states to grant marriage licenses to gay couples. The brief was filed in two of the four consolidated gay-marriage cases pending before the Supreme Court, according to a…

Mar 5, 2015 7:55 AM CST

Top state court rebuffs judge’s constitutional challenge to moonlighting ban

For years, a number of Pennsylvania judges have held paid side positions as bank directors. But a revision last year of state judicial ethics rules banned the practice. As recommended by the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct, the state now says a judge “”shall not serve as an officer,…

Mar 4, 2015 3:40 PM CST

White paper proposing controls for online piracy makes opponents of Internet regulation see red

The bills had been backed by influential members of Congress and supported by powerful lobbies. It seemed only a matter of time before they became law and provided potent new tools to stop online copyright infringement.

Mar 1, 2015 6:22 AM CST

Ethics opinion: It’s OK to ‘practice’ after selling a law practice to assist in the transition

For many decades, ethics rules in the United States prohibited lawyers from selling any part of their law practices other than physical assets such as furniture, office equipment and books. That prohibition encompassed the intangible value of the lawyer’s “goodwill” —essentially, his or her clients. As a result, those clients were often left to fend for themselves when their lawyer retired, died, became a judge or otherwise left practice.

Mar 1, 2015 6:16 AM CST

ABA Rule of Law Initiative helps advance legal reforms in more than 50 countries

Lewis Powell was elected president of the American Bar Association in 1964, several years before he served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1972 to 1987. In 1965, Powell wrote in these pages about the ABA’s effort, launched in 1958, to explore “what lawyers can do of a practical character…

Mar 1, 2015 4:50 AM CST

ABA Health Law Section task force is helping breast cancer patients

Coping with cancer is never easy, even with the best possible outcomes. That harsh reality will hit home with nearly 232,000 women in the United States who the American Cancer Society estimates will be diagnosed with various stages of breast cancer this year. And not all the challenges cancer patients…

Mar 1, 2015 2:00 AM CST

As law school enrollment drops, experts disagree on whether the bottom is in sight

Corrected: Given recent trends, it came as no surprise that enrollment at ABA-accredited law schools fell again in 2014, according to figures released in December by the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. It was the fourth straight year in which law school enrollment dropped after peaking…

Mar 1, 2015 1:50 AM CST

ABA Announcements

DELEGATE-AT-LARGE ELECTION Pursuant to § 6.5 of the ABA Constitution, six Delegates-at-Large to the House of Delegates will be elected at the 2015 Annual Meeting for three-year terms beginning with the adjournment of that meeting and ending with the adjournment of the 2018 Annual Meeting. Candidates for election as Delegate-at-Large…

Mar 1, 2015 1:25 AM CST

Members’ involvement is vital in ongoing ABA efforts to lobby Congress

ABA Announcements

Winning app at Hackcess to Justice New Orleans helps clients preserve evidence

Legal Ed Section’s council approves change in reporting of school-funded jobs

Student winners of ABA’s Magna Carta video competition are named

Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence Tribe are among this year’s Silver Gavel nominees

ABA committee to consider changes in reporting of law school entering class credentials

ABA backs constitutional right to gay marriage in SCOTUS brief

Top state court rebuffs judge’s constitutional challenge to moonlighting ban

White paper proposing controls for online piracy makes opponents of Internet regulation see red

Ethics opinion: It’s OK to ‘practice’ after selling a law practice to assist in the transition

ABA Rule of Law Initiative helps advance legal reforms in more than 50 countries

ABA Health Law Section task force is helping breast cancer patients

As law school enrollment drops, experts disagree on whether the bottom is in sight

ABA Announcements

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