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Apr 1, 2022 12:30 AM CDT
This year, we will celebrate the 25th anniversary of this event during the week of April 4. The ongoing pandemic has restricted our ability to meet face-to-face in Washington, but we have adjusted our advocacy strategy and techniques. As in 2020 and 2021, ABA Day 2022 will be held virtually.
Apr 1, 2022 12:20 AM CDT
Luz Arévalo has spent most of her career helping immigrants and members of other marginalized communities sort through issues with their taxes.
Mar 31, 2022 2:54 PM CDT
In a late February briefing, Nadia Ahmad introduced a group of ABA members and Capitol Hill staffers to Resolution 48/13—a measure adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council that for the first time recognizes having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right.
Mar 29, 2022 8:51 AM CDT
Yale Law School kept its No. 1 spot on the 2023 U.S. News & World Report rankings, which were released Tuesday, and the University of Chicago Law School moved up—from No. 4 to No. 3 on the list. Check out the schools that made the top 20 on U.S. News & World Report’s list of 2023 best law schools.
Mar 28, 2022 11:01 PM CDT
The ABA Young Lawyers Division has launched the Leadership Academy to continue to promote and advance lawyers who have been historically marginalized and underrepresented in the legal profession.
Mar 25, 2022 11:31 AM CDT
Hawaii has become the latest state to adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers.
Mar 25, 2022 10:33 AM CDT
The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary gave U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson its “well qualified” rating after receiving consistent praise from those who knew her and reviewed her writing, committee representatives told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Mar 24, 2022 11:13 AM CDT
The Diverse Lawyers Trial Academy is a two-day intensive training program that connects lawyers who have been historically underrepresented in civil proceedings with a faculty of experienced trial lawyers, in-house counsel, judges and trial consultants.
Mar 23, 2022 8:30 AM CDT
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has received a unanimous “well qualified” rating from the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, the highest qualification.
Mar 18, 2022 2:45 PM CDT
Mar 18, 2022 10:00 AM CDT
The Law School Admission Council announced a plan Wednesday to allow prospective law school applicants to take undergraduate courses—possibly in lieu of the LSAT.
Mar 16, 2022 9:00 AM CDT
Katrice Williams attends Cleveland State University’s Marshall College of Law, which is in the same town where police killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was playing at the park with a toy gun, in 2014. After that, in 2015, the city entered a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, agreeing to make fundamental policy changes after it was found that police there had a pattern of excessive force.
Mar 14, 2022 8:34 AM CDT
Troubles continue to mount for lawyers involved in challenges to the 2020 presidential election results. Among them is lawyer Sidney Powell in Texas, who is facing ethics charges for allegedly filing frivolous lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions.
Mar 9, 2022 9:44 AM CST
Jonathan Gleklen wanted to do something a little different during his year as chair of the ABA Antitrust Law Section. Gleklen, who began his term in August, proposed that the section create a task force to develop an open source antitrust casebook for law school students.
Mar 9, 2022 8:41 AM CST
The ABA Journal wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession. We are now accepting thoughtful, non-promotional articles and commentary by unpaid contributors.
