The State Bar of California may have gone easy on lawyers facing possible discipline when it sought to reduce a backlog of more than 5,000 cases with settlements in 2010…
An ABA task force is calling for enhanced debt counseling for law students; “plain English” disclosures of loan repayment programs; an increase in the collection and public dissemination of law…
A proposal to allow out-of-state lawyers to practice in New Jersey without taking the bar exam is raising concern that the change would harm in-state lawyers and the public.
Corrected: They’re suggestions, rather than requirements. But new legal ethics guidelines developed by the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association say lawyers need to…
Clarified: With much honor and ceremonial display, the Magna Carta celebrated its 800th birthday on Monday on the same hallowed ground where King John originally sealed it.
People from both sides of the Atlantic flocked to London and Runnymede from June 11-15 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta. But if you…
The inspirational, and aspirational, template of the Magna Carta for the constitutions and legal documents that succeeded it is one of the recurring themes at the ABA London Sessions…
American and British lawyers can learn from each other and borrow examples of good practice from both systems to improve litigation and arbitration overall, attorneys said at a panel discussion…
The rule of law as embodied in the Magna Carta needs to be brought to the people who need it most, said Baroness Emma Nicholson during her luncheon speech at…
The world of insider trading and the laws needed to prosecute those illegal trades continues to evolve as new issues and technologies used for trading emerge, attorneys said at an…
A major theme of the ABA London Sessions commemorating the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta is its effect in binding two of the leading common…
The ubiquity of information, coupled with conflicting international laws about privacy, data protection and national security laws, is making litigation a minefield of challenges, attorneys agreed at a panel discussion…
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