Some critics say the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar accredits too many law schools, producing more graduates than there are good jobs available.
The American Bar Association has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that a federal bankruptcy law restricting the advice of debt relief agencies should not apply…
Barring any unforeseen catastrophes in the final weeks of our fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31, the association should post a modest financial surplus. In a year when the challenges…
A recent decision to suspend implementation of a controversial federal regulation aimed at preventing identity theft gives the ABA more time to press its argument that the regulation should not…
Six former U.S. attorneys general, who served under four different presidents in the past 30 years, expressed serious concerns about proposed investigations into interrogation techniques employed—but now abandoned—in the war…
It was just one moment in a hallway outside another hotel meeting room, but it offered a telling glimpse into the impact Stephen N. Zack is likely to have when…
Like the manner of the man who delivered it, the message was simple, direct and steeped in the heritage of traditional New England democracy: “We have to do something to…
Carolyn Lamm assumed the presidency of the ABA at the 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago, telling the House of Delegates that “the term rule of law may sound like an…
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