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ABA Treasurer’s Report: Fiscal Year Ending Aug 31, 2011

The ABA’s finances are sound. That might suffice as a full and adequate report on our financial situation to those Association members for whom a Treasurer’s Report has all the appeal and excitement of hearing your plumber talk about the state of your home’s plumbing. But Journal readers, especially those…

May 1, 2012 6:30 AM CDT

The Forgotten Demographic: ABA Wants an International Convention on Elder Rights

The world’s elderly population may be the next frontier in efforts to create an international system for protecting human rights. That process began in the immediate aftermath of World War II, with the creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1948, the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration…

May 1, 2012 6:20 AM CDT

Legislative Logjam: ABA-Supported Bills Bog Down in Partisan Congress

This report is written by the ABA Governmental Affairs Office and discusses advocacy efforts by the ABA relating to issues being addressed by Congress and the executive branch of the federal government. A number of measures high on the ABA’s agenda of legislative priorities are caught up in the partisan…

May 1, 2012 6:09 AM CDT

Start Packing: ABA’s DC Staff Will Move Buildings by End of Next Summer

The association has entered into a 15-year lease to occupy some 61,000 square feet in a building known as Washington Square at 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW. In December, the ABA closed on the sale of a building at 740 15th St. NW to JBC Funds 740 LLC, a subsidiary of…

May 1, 2012 6:00 AM CDT

Lawyers Giving Back

Know someone in the legal field who gets a charge out of helping others? Snap a photo at their next event and please submit them to Julie Brown c/o Lawyers Giving Back. We welcome your “action” photographs of lawyers—whether ABA members or not—giving back to their communities. Send jpeg files…

May 1, 2012 5:50 AM CDT

ABA Announcements

NOTICE BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION 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 2012 Annual Meeting for three-year terms beginning with the adjournment of that meeting and ending with the…

May 1, 2012 5:40 AM CDT

ABA Standards Review Committee to Offer Two Alternate Approaches to LSAT Requirement

An ABA committee has tentatively agreed on two alternative approaches to the current requirement in the Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools that all law school applicants must take a valid and reliable admissions test. The first approach would keep a pared-down version of the current…

Apr 30, 2012 9:18 PM CDT

Despite ABA Accreditation Issue, Duncan Law Grads Can Sit for Tenn. Bar Exam

Denied in December the provisional accreditation it had hoped to win from the American Bar Association, a Tennessee law school, in addition to filing an appeal directly with the ABA, has been waging a federal court battle, as yet unsuccessfully, to force the ABA to change its mind. However, Lincoln…

Apr 25, 2012 7:30 PM CDT

‘Bucky’ Askew, ABA’s Legal Education Consultant, Is Leaving

Hulett “Bucky” Askew, the ABA’s consultant on legal education, is leaving the association at the end of August. Askew’s departure was announced Monday (PDF) on the website of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. He will be returning to his hometown of Atlanta. Askew, 69, said…

Apr 24, 2012 4:31 PM CDT

ABA Asks Consumer Watchdog Agency to Withdraw Proposed Rule on Privileged Information

The ABA is expressing concern that a proposed rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could weaken, rather than safeguard, protections for attorney-client privilege and work product. The ABA says the proposed rule should be withdrawn until legislation is passed to provide explicit protection for privileged bank materials shared with…

Apr 20, 2012 10:59 AM CDT

ABA President Says Obama’s Initial Remarks on Judicial Activism Are ‘Troubling’

ABA President Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III is taking issue with President Obama’s initial remarks about the U.S. Supreme Court and the health care law. Last Monday, Obama said a decision to overturn the law would be an “unprecedented, extraordinary” step of judicial activism. On Tuesday, Obama clarified his statement,…

Apr 9, 2012 3:53 PM CDT

Judge Stays Duncan Law Litigation, Denies School’s Motion for Reconsideration

A federal judge on Monday refused to reconsider his January denial of a Tennessee law school’s request for injunctive relief in its antitrust suit against the ABA. The judge also granted the ABA’s motion to stay the litigation while the school pursues its administrative remedies but denied without prejudice the…

Apr 2, 2012 10:25 PM CDT

ABA Techshow: Show Us Your Tech (Video)

Business of law reporter Rachel Zahorsky finds out what technology lawyers are packing as they explore the ABA Techshow vendor area.

Apr 2, 2012 5:06 PM CDT

Clio’s Jack Newton on Staying Ahead of the Legal Puck (Video)

Business of law reporter Rachel Zahorsky chatted with Clio co-founder Jack Newton during ABA Techshow. In this video, Newton discusses lawyer fear over secure cloud-based technology systems. He also talked about how lawyers can stay one step ahead of the technology and be prepared for client demand.

Apr 2, 2012 4:45 PM CDT

ABA Urges Supreme Court to Overturn Ariz. Law Requiring Immigration Checks of Some Arrestees

The ABA has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn part of a controversial Arizona law that requires immigration status checks for some people who are stopped or arrested. The ABA brief urges the court to rule that four enjoined provisions are pre-empted by federal immigration…

Apr 2, 2012 10:30 AM CDT