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…
Dec 3, 2015 8:27 AM CST
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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…
Dec 1, 2015 1:30 AM CST
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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…
Dec 1, 2015 1:20 AM CST
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Lawyers should reduce limited-scope legal representation agreements to writing and should ask pro se litigants whether they are being represented by counsel to avoid violating the “no-contact” rule, explains a…
Nov 30, 2015 8:50 AM CST
Updated: Washington state’s Practice of Law Board has been hit with mass resignations and departures as a result of a long-running feud with the bar association’s leaders.
On Monday,…
Nov 9, 2015 4:25 PM CST
A North Carolina lawyer is facing disciplinary charges in part over some off-color remarks he made in his pleadings about opposing counsel and a panel of state appeals court judges.
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Nov 3, 2015 4:26 PM CST
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The adage that there's no place like home should not apply to dangerous wild animals, in the view of a growing number of organizations pushing for the adoption of laws…
Nov 1, 2015 1:00 AM CDT
Charla Nash, who underwent a full face transplant after a friend’s pet chimpanzee mauled her, speaks at a 2014 press conference on Capitol Hill. Getty Images
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When the ABA was planning the Opening Session for its London Sessions commemorating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta this summer, it wanted to strike just the right note…
Nov 1, 2015 12:50 AM CDT
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Bar pass rates in New York state have fallen to their lowest point in at least 11 years, new figures show.
Only 70 percent of first-time test takers passed the…
Oct 27, 2015 2:35 PM CDT
LegalZoom has settled its protracted legal dispute with the North Carolina State Bar with a consent agreement that permits the company to continue operating there, Forbes reports. The online…
Oct 23, 2015 3:15 PM CDT