The American Bar Association filed an amicus brief Tuesday condemning a private probation system that jails defendants who are unable to pay their fines.
The American Bar Association says an employee was misguided when he or she offered to publish a book by Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao, and the employee erred again…
The ABA is expressing support for a proposal by the Washington State Bar Association to remove questions about mental health history in its review of bar applicants.
ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 474 (PDF) from the ABA’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility addresses the propriety of referral fees, explains that clients must consent to…
Two Republican lawmakers are asking the ABA for “additional clarification” about its decision to withdraw a book offer made to a Chinese human rights lawyer.
Many law firms would be forced to pay taxes on “phantom” income they haven’t received and may never receive under tax reform legislation being considered by Congress, the ABA says…
After an hourly rates client of an insolvent law firm terminates the relationship, can a bankruptcy trustee later claw back some of the future profits earned by the client’s new…
It was gloomy and gray for most of the day as the seventh annual Avvo Lawyernomics conference kicked off Friday from the Wynn Las Vegas. But it certainly felt…
Fifteen former presidents of the American Bar Association have written a letter calling for a hearing and vote on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
Updated:Robert MacCrate, a courtly Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer whose many accomplishments included introducing himself in song in 1987 as the American Bar Association’s incoming president, died Wednesday. He…
The American Bar Association is backing calls by Louisiana public defenders and the chief justice of the state’s supreme court to provide adequate funding for the representation of indigent defendants.
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