A former county bar president was remembered at a Fresno, Calif., memorial service earlier this week after she and her divorce client were shot and killed at a restaurant during…
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Saturday to cut the budget for the Legal Services Corp. by $70 million, spurring criticism by the president of the American Bar Association.
The Video Game Bar Association, the first organization of its kind, has launched, bringing together lawyers specializing in the video game and interactive media industries.
The president of the Puerto Rico Bar Association was treated for high blood pressure in a hospital emergency room on Monday after paying a $10,000 contempt fine and being freed…
The ABA on Monday called on federal and state governments to require civic education for elementary, middle, and secondary students in the nation’s schools and provide grant funding for such…
ABA President-Elect Nominee Laurel Bellows told the ABA House of Delegates on Monday that the association should address the balance of individual liberties and national security in a more direct,…
The theme of underfunded courts continued Monday morning in the ABA House of Delegates with the president of the Conference of Chief Justices telling the policymaking body that “the fiscal…
The federal tax code should be amended to let “states recover overdue debts due to them, including court-ordered victims’ restitution, fines, fees and costs, by intercepting federal tax refunds that…
The federal judiciary should update its Case Management/Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF) system, which lawyers use to file court papers and the public uses to access those documents through the PACER…
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