Just three days after the inauguration of President Barack Obama, ABA President H. Thomas Wells Jr. was meeting with new White House Counsel Greg Craig about some of the association’s…
Contrary to media reports suggesting widespread lawyer dissatisfaction, a new study of 4,160 individuals who became lawyers in 2000 has found that three out of four say they are either…
In these days of crisis, a foreclosure takes place every 13 seconds in the U.S. So, doing the math, that means more than 400 foreclosures were initiated somewhere in the…
The ABA’s policymaking house of Delegates voted overwhelmingly at the midyear meeting to endorse rights of due process for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Talk about your landslides. the ABA Nominating Committee voted unanimously at the midyear meeting in Boston to confirm Stephen N. Zack of Miami as the next president-elect of the ABA.…
The likelihood of depression is 3.6 times higher for lawyers than other employed people, and the reasons include the pressures of the job and characteristics that make lawyers good at…
After a debate that lasted more than 90 minutes—the longest so far today—the ABA’s policymaking House of Delegates adopted Resolution 109, an ethics rule that allows a firm to “screen”…
Massive state budget shortfalls threaten the ability of courts to continue to operate, Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, who is president of the Conference of Chief Justices, told the…
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