658 ABA Journal Annual Meeting articles.
All things considered, the ABA is moving into its new budget year on a solid footing.
Not all of the financial news for the ABA is good, Alice E. Richmond…
Aug 6, 2009 4:14 PM CDT
Incoming ABA President-Elect Stephen Zack, a partner in the Miami office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, called on the ABA to create an innovative program of civic education that he…
Aug 4, 2009 3:39 PM CDT
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates today approved a resolution calling for access to quality health care for all Americans, regardless of income. It passed on an overwhelming voice vote,…
Aug 4, 2009 2:28 PM CDT
Carolyn Lamm, an international trade and litigation lawyer at the Washington, D.C. office of White & Case, assumed the presidency of the ABA today, telling the House of Delegates that…
Aug 3, 2009 9:30 PM CDT
Corrected: The ABA policy-making House of Delegates passed by an overwhelming voice vote a resolution calling on Congress to repeal a section of the Defense of Marriage Act that denies…
Aug 3, 2009 8:47 PM CDT
Drawing a sharp contrast between the Bush and Obama administrations, without ever naming the former, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the ABA House of Delegates that “we no longer…
Aug 3, 2009 8:31 PM CDT
The 92 members of the American Samoa Bar Association will have to wait a while to learn whether they will be granted representation in the ABA House of Delegates.
The…
Aug 3, 2009 7:09 PM CDT
When the U.N. General Assembly convened a World Summit in 2005, it set forth the doctrine that states have an obligation to protect their citizens from genocide, war crimes and…
Aug 3, 2009 5:50 PM CDT
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…
Aug 3, 2009 5:29 PM CDT
With his son—the founder of a software company in Redmond, Wash.—looking on, Seattle attorney William H. Gates Sr. received the ABA Medal this morning at the House of Delegates meeting…
Aug 3, 2009 4:44 PM CDT
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates begins its two-day session this morning, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s address at 2:30 p.m. CT promises to be one of its marquee…
Aug 3, 2009 1:58 PM CDT
Those trying to keep ABA leadership scorecards up to date can safely pencil Wm. T. “Bill” Robinson III of Florence, Ky., into the…
Aug 2, 2009 6:25 PM CDT
Want to build a moneymaking, dream law business that clients love while working part time? Escape the outdated business model that has lawyers working too many hours for too little?…
Aug 2, 2009 5:13 PM CDT
The legal ethics challenges that will be posed by lawyer use of Facebook, Twitter and other forms of “cloud computing” services are almost as revolutionary as the services themselves, according…
Aug 2, 2009 4:43 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court in the Obama era may be more conservative than under President George W. Bush because retiring Justice David H. Souter was the only one who could…
Aug 2, 2009 4:03 PM CDT
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