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The economy may be priority No. 1 in the new presidential administration, but national security isn’t far behind.
It’s certainly job No. 1 for Navy Adm. Michael…
Nov 7, 2008 10:36 PM CST The home state of ABA President H. Thomas Wells Jr. was the site of this year’s most expensive judicial race, and Wells isn’t happy about it. Wells said in a…
Nov 6, 2008 6:52 PM CST Robert J. Grey Jr., an attorney with Hunton & Williams who formerly served as the president of the American Bar Association, was defeated yesterday in his…
Nov 5, 2008 7:39 PM CST The ABA is about process, not politics Nov 2, 2008 3:30 AM CST Nov 2, 2008 2:25 AM CST To: The Next President of the United States From: H. Thomas Wells Jr., ABA President, and Thomas M. Susman, Director, ABA Governmental Affairs Office Re: Your First 30 Days in…
Nov 2, 2008 1:35 AM CST ABA President H. Thomas Wells, Jr. has launched a blog that goes behind the scenes in the peripatetic life of the leader of the world’s largest voluntary…
Oct 29, 2008 10:12 PM CDT Missing rent money has prompted an embezzlement investigation into a former employee of the California State Bar Association. Robert Hawley, the bar’s deputy executive director, told the Oct 22, 2008 12:01 PM CDT Most potential voters support judicial elections for state court judges, despite qualms about influence by special interest groups making campaign donations, according to a Harris Poll conducted with input from…
Oct 21, 2008 5:08 PM CDT Joseph Margulies will talk about his role in coordinating the litigation challenging the Bush administration’s post-9/11 detention policy at 5 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the ABA’s headquarters…
Oct 17, 2008 4:44 PM CDT A transient has been convicted of second-degree murder for strangling a former president of the California State Bar during a sexual encounter. Garvin Shallenberger was killed in 2006 at his…
Oct 17, 2008 12:25 PM CDT The president of the Kentucky Bar Association is facing an ethics probe for her conduct in a priest sex-abuse case, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. The newspaper…
Oct 14, 2008 5:25 PM CDT The general counsel of the Oklahoma Bar Association has entered a reduced plea in connection with allegations he groped and bit a woman in a suite at a racetrack and…
Oct 13, 2008 11:26 AM CDT A disbarred Vermont lawyer who moved to Arizona and opened an office called “Divorce with Dignity” has been convicted of theft and fraud for leading clients to believe he had…
Oct 10, 2008 3:00 PM CDT The only law school in New Hampshire has announced that it is considering a merger with a state university. Franklin Pierce Law Center, a private…
Oct 9, 2008 11:33 PM CDTABA President Decries Expensive Judicial Races
Ex-ABA Prez Robert Grey Loses Race for Richmond Mayor
Left, Right or Center?
ABA Announcements
Memorandum to the Next President
ABA President Joins the Blogosphere
Calif. State Bar Reveals Embezzlement of More than $100K
55% of Potential Voters Support Judicial Elections for State Judges
A Conversation With Gitmo Lawyer Margulies
Transient Convicted in Death of Ex-President of California Bar
Ky. Bar President Faces Ethics Probe Linked to Fee Dispute in Priest Case
GC of Oklahoma Bar Gets Probation in Groping Case
Ex-Lawyer Convicted for Misleading Clients at ‘Divorce With Dignity’ Clinic
Franklin Pierce, Only N.H. Law School, Mulls State U Merger
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