The Washington State Bar Association has directed its ethics committee to stop issuing ethics opinions that could be interpreted as having a restraint on trade in the legal services market.
Updated: More than doubling the number of federal prison sentences he has commuted during his entire time in office, President Barack Obama on Friday granted clemency to 95 inmates and…
Law school consumer information for the entering class of 2015 is now available on the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar’s website, the section said in…
Corrected: The Utah Supreme Court has given the green light to allow licensed paralegal practitioners to help clients navigate the legal system, though the new professionals won’t be allowed to…
Updated: In a 2013 speech delivered at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting, then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a new “Smart on Crime” initiative and called for a…
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy questioned Wednesday whether a case challenging affirmative action in college admissions should be returned to lower courts once again for more evidence about the need for…
The American Bar Association has filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to order a new sentencing hearing for a death row inmate because of “rare-but-egregious circumstances” involving…
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has approved for notice and comment a proposed change in the law school accreditation standards…
A once-prominent Montana lawyer was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft charges.
The ABA is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision favoring the Federal Trade Commission in its battle to obtain attorney documents regarding a drug company’s settlement agreement…
In August 2014, the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs and the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation announced that they were collaborating on a major research project to survey current rates…
The ABA Section of Litigation is hitting the road. The journey may lack the romantic flair of Jack Kerouac's 1957 classic On the Road or the poignancy of John Steinbeck's…
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