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No Shortage of Politicians and Legal Legends at ABA Annual Meeting #ABAChicago

Politicians and judges will be in abundant supply at the ABA Annual Meeting that kicks off in Chicago on Thursday.

The headliner is newly retired Justice David H. Souter, who…

Souter and ABA House to Discuss Civics Education #ABAChicago

The ABA Annual Meeting that begins Thursday in Chicago will have something of a civics theme.

Newly retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter will talk about the need…

ABA Annual Meeting 2009 on Twitter #ABAChicago

If you’re writing about the ABA Annual Meeting—taking place July 30 through Aug. 4 in Chicago—on Twitter, we encourage you to include the hash tag #abachicago in your tweets to…

ABA Board to Consider Membership Efforts at Annual Meeting

Facing an expected membership decline of up to 4,000 lawyers this year, the ABA has hired Leo Burnett Co. to help market itself.

The advertising agency will give a presentation…

Rule of Law to Baseball

Neukom plans to stay active on international issues

In Search of Equality

Commission says barriers remain after 20 years

Screening Door Held Ajar

Modification of Model Rules is tabled—for now

Assisting Military Families

Wells also focuses on voter rights, judicial choices

The Way of the Dinosaurs?

Warnings of need for change fill legal services hearing

A Lesson Unlearned

Sixteen years after watershed case, lawyers may yet be subprime targets

Coverage Roundup: Day 6

UPI: “Wells is new leader of lawyers’ group”

Blog of Legal Times: “Mukasey on Justice Department Hiring: The System Failed”

Aug 13, 2008 1:05 AM CDT

President-Elect to Focus on Upping ABA Member Rolls

New ABA President-Elect Carolyn B. Lamm told the House of Delegates today that she plans to appoint a series of task forces to look at key segments of the legal…

ABA Stands Pat on Lateral Lawyer Rules

Updated: By a single vote, the ABA’s 555-member policy-making House of Delegates decided this morning to postpone indefinitely consideration of an amendment to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to…

DOJ Has Cleaned House, Mukasey Tells ABA

Updated: Attorney General Michael Mukasey told the ABA House of Delegates this morning that “politics must play no role in either the hiring of career [Department of Justice] employees or…

House of Delegates Passionately Debates ABA’s Goals

In the 25 years since the ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates took a comprehensive look at the association’s mission and goals, the number of ABA goals has grown from seven…

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