656 ABA Journal Annual Meeting articles.
Round the corner at the ABA Expo, and two young women dressed in skintight nurses’ uniforms, doctors’ coats and red high-heeled shoes are there to tell curious lawyers about
In what may be an ABA Annual Meeting first, presenters at the Section of Science & Technology Law’s session on the future of music and technology digitally recorded, remixed, replayed…
Aug 7, 2008 8:26 PM CDT
With more than 1,500 programs ranging from the fallout of the economy on the legal profession to what the presidential candidates should be saying about judicial selection, the American Bar…
Aug 6, 2008 4:40 PM CDT
Incoming ABA President H. Thomas Wells Jr. says he got the message in talks with other bar leaders over the past year or so.
There is widespread concern, he says,…
Aug 4, 2008 8:13 PM CDT
In August when the ABA House of Delegates debated and then took a stand against mandatory retirement at law firms, it had a big effect on…
Oct 24, 2007 12:38 PM CDT
The ABA remained largely silent as Congress and the Bush administration wrangled during the past several months over whether the firings of nine U.S. attorneys were politically motivated or simply…
Aug 14, 2007 8:30 PM CDT
Updated: A watered-down resolution on the controversial firing of nine U.S. Attorneys by the Justice Department has passed the ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates, which wound up its final day…
Aug 14, 2007 5:21 PM CDT
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates adopted a policy urging Congress to pass legislation that would in effect reverse the interrogation policy for the CIA that is set forth in…
Aug 14, 2007 3:13 AM CDT
The ABA House of Delegates decided Monday that the time has come for law firms to put mandatory age-based retirement policies out to pasture.
In addition to recommending that law…
Aug 14, 2007 2:10 AM CDT
As William Neukom takes office today as the ABA’s new president, one of his main goals is promoting the rule of law in the U.S. and abroad.
The gavel was…
Aug 13, 2007 11:47 PM CDT
Lots of folks are complaining these days about the evils of subprime loans and their connection to the record wave of mortgage foreclosures sweeping the nation.
Now, with humongous jumps…
Aug 13, 2007 12:33 AM CDT
Michael Crichton, who fills a rather unique niche in turning science into literary fiction, says the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office goofed in dealing…
Aug 13, 2007 12:12 AM CDT
More than 1,300 people showed up for the 17th annual Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards Luncheon honoring women whose…
Aug 12, 2007 10:13 PM CDT
Besides understanding that nanotechnology makes small stuff usable and usable stuff small, we need also recognize that what we know about it can fit on the head of a pin,…
Aug 12, 2007 6:36 PM CDT
Updated: The laws of the United States and other nations are increasingly becoming pieces of a larger fabric as they seek to address issues of common interest, said U.S. Supreme…
Aug 12, 2007 3:20 AM CDT
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