His term may have expired, but William Hubbard continues to champion the work of one of his primary initiatives as president of the ABA: The Commission on the…
Supporting a clemency petition for a man convicted of murdering a California couple, one of their children and a visiting child in 1983, the president of the American Bar Association…
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has tentatively approved a proposal that would tighten and simplify the bar passage requirement in…
A nonlawyer who brazenly offered his services as an immigration attorney and met with clients in the Brooklyn Bar Association’s law library, which he called his office, has been sentenced…
A federal judge in Nevada has tossed a lawsuit by a Las Vegas lawyer that claimed the State Bar of Nevada defamed him by leaking information to the press about…
As more individuals handle their cases pro se or hire lawyers to represent them on a limited basis, lawyers representing other parties in those matters often are left in a…
Yes, history affects us all—even lawyers "defending your rights in the digital world." Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which takes on that task, recalls that when…
The Convention on the Rights of the Child reached an important milestone in 2015, when Somalia and South Sudan completed the ratification process. Their actions leave only one of the…
Despite the intense partisanship that has bogged down much of the legislative business on Capitol Hill these days, the ABA achieved some notable successes in its advocacy efforts during 2015. Mar 1, 2016 1:00 AM CST
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