Robert J. Grey Jr., an attorney with Hunton & Williams who formerly served as the president of the American Bar Association, was defeated yesterday in his bid to become the mayor of Richmond, Va. When it became apparent that he had lost the contest to one of two other candidates,…
####2008 STATE DELEGATE VACANCY ELECTION RESULTS The Board of Elections was polled via telephone on September 24, 2008 and declared Marna S. Tucker as the State Delegate from the District of Columbia (term effective immediately through the conclusion of the 2011 Annual Meeting) and Randall D. Noel as State Delegate…
ABA President H. Thomas Wells, Jr. has launched a blog that goes behind the scenes in the peripatetic life of the leader of the world’s largest voluntary professional membership organization. The blog describes the events Wells attends on behalf of the ABA across the country and around the world, the…
Most potential voters support judicial elections for state court judges, despite qualms about influence by special interest groups making campaign donations, according to a Harris Poll conducted with input from the American Bar Association. The survey (PDF) of the voting age public found that 55 percent think elections should be…
Joseph Margulies will talk about his role in coordinating the litigation challenging the Bush administration’s post-9/11 detention policy at 5 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the ABA’s headquarters at 321 N. Clark St. in Chicago. It is the first in a series of ABA events with legal newsmakers,…
The only law school in New Hampshire has announced that it is considering a merger with a state university. Franklin Pierce Law Center, a private ABA-accredited institution in Concord, N.H., says in a just-issued joint press release that it is in discussions with the University of New Hampshire about combining…
Updated: Stereotypes may be the reason women lawyers are more likely than their male counterparts to report bias in job reviews, according to a report by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. Commission researchers said that assertive, demanding female lawyers are given low marks for interpersonal skills while…
####DELEGATE-AT-LARGE ELECTION RESULTS The following persons were elected to three-year terms as Delegates-at-Large to the House of Delegates at the 2008 Annual Meeting: Suzanne E. Gilbert (Florida); Christel E. Marquardt (Kansas); Judy Perry Martinez (Louisiana); Pamela J. Roberts (South Carolina); Estelle H. Rogers (District of Columbia); and Ellen F. Rosenblum…
Although the worst of the mortgage meltdown was then still in the future, a ABA study of legal malpractice claims from 2004 to 2007 showed that related legal malpractice claims rose as the real estate market fell. Such legal malpractice claims are up about four percentage points, according to the…
