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Like the manner of the man who delivered it, the message was simple, direct and steeped in the heritage of traditional New England democracy: “We have to do something to…
Sep 2, 2009 1:00 AM CDT
Carolyn Lamm assumed the presidency of the ABA at the 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago, telling the House of Delegates that “the term rule of law may sound like an…
Sep 2, 2009 12:50 AM CDT
It almost had to happen, sooner or later: Among a growing number of employers and agencies surfing the Internet and accessing social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to look…
Aug 31, 2009 9:09 PM CDT
As the Nov. 1 deadline nears for enforcing the Federal Trade Commission’s controversial new Red Flags Rule, the American Bar Association has filed suit over the agency’s inclusion of practicing…
Aug 27, 2009 6:50 PM CDT
Two former ABA leaders are taking on leadership roles in organizations promoting a better legal profession and improved laws.
Former ABA President Robert J. Grey Jr. has been appointed interim…
Aug 26, 2009 6:33 PM CDT
The ABA Commission on Domestic Violence this week announced the first national online directory of resources for attorneys seeking to help…
Aug 21, 2009 12:06 AM CDT
A Topeka, Kan., businessman who ran a company called Pro Se Advocates remains in jail because he won’t sign a document promising he won’t practice law.
The Kansas Supreme Court…
Aug 19, 2009 4:42 PM CDT
ABA President Carolyn B. Lamm is condemning the conviction and sentence of former Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as a violation of international law.
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All things considered, the ABA is moving into its new budget year on a solid footing.
Not all of the financial news for the ABA is good, Alice E. Richmond…
Aug 6, 2009 4:14 PM CDT
A federal judge has upheld most of the new restrictions on advertising by Louisiana lawyers, but struck down two rules regulating Internet advertising.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman said Louisana’s…
Aug 4, 2009 5:00 PM CDT
Incoming ABA President-Elect Stephen Zack, a partner in the Miami office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, called on the ABA to create an innovative program of civic education that he…
Aug 4, 2009 3:39 PM CDT
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates today approved a resolution calling for access to quality health care for all Americans, regardless of income. It passed on an overwhelming voice vote,…
Aug 4, 2009 2:28 PM CDT
Carolyn Lamm, an international trade and litigation lawyer at the Washington, D.C. office of White & Case, assumed the presidency of the ABA today, telling the House of Delegates that…
Aug 3, 2009 9:30 PM CDT
Corrected: The ABA policy-making House of Delegates passed by an overwhelming voice vote a resolution calling on Congress to repeal a section of the Defense of Marriage Act that denies…
Aug 3, 2009 8:47 PM CDT
Drawing a sharp contrast between the Bush and Obama administrations, without ever naming the former, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the ABA House of Delegates that “we no longer…
Aug 3, 2009 8:31 PM CDT
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