ABA President William H. Neukom is supporting legislation to eliminate the disparity in federal sentences for crack and powder cocaine offenses. Currently, crack cocaine offenders are punished the same as…
Volunteer lawyers who help victims of the recent Southern California wildfires will no longer be restricted in the kinds of lawsuits they can bring on behalf of their clients. Now…
After a three-year study on state capital punishment systems, the American Bar Association is calling for a nationwide moratorium on executions until an unfair and sometimes inaccurate application of the…
Former deputy attorney general Paul McNulty may have switched sides when he jumped from the Justice Department to Baker & McKenzie’s business crimes practice, but…
Actor Owen Wilson (Wedding Crashers, You, Me and Dupree, and the big-screen remake of Starsky & Hutch) had a hankering for a snack, and the American Bar Association was only…
A U.S. Senate vote this week to increase the budget of an agency that provides legal services to the indigent by nearly $42 million was applauded today by the president…
The ABA is urging Congress to ensure that legislation extending the government’s wiretap authority in terrorism investigations contains adequate safeguards.
A study released by an ABA group says Pennsylvania’s death penalty system fails to ensure basic fairness and could result in the execution of an innocent person. The Oct 9, 2007 3:48 PM CDT
Updated: A small law firm in Boston has boldly done what many competitors probably wish they could but think they can’t. Shepherd Law Group, a five-lawyer employment boutique, has banned…
Updated: In a settlement that should send shock waves throughout many of the nation’s major law firms, Sidley Austin has agreed to pay $27.5 million to resolve a landmark federal…
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