Layoffs sweeping through many law firms as a result of the current financial crisis could open the door for bolstering efforts to provide civil legal services to poor people, ABA…
More law firms are appointing ethics counsel, a “valuable” service that nonetheless raises issues of disclosure and conflicts of interest, according to an ABA ethics opinion.
Readers of this site and fans of the long-running television game show Jeopardy may have been quick to hit the buzzer recently when they saw this item flash up on…
ABA President H. Thomas Wells Jr. is applauding a decision by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to insure client funds deposited in Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has waived the usual requirement that all takers of the state bar examination must be graduates of an ABA-accredited law school for a licensed…
Former ABA President and Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer says he won’t run for Michigan governor because he would have to give up family time and law, two things he loves.
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