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Conditional bar admission aims to encourage timely help
Mar 1, 2008 5:00 PM CST
D.C.-based lawyer nominated to be president-elect
Mar 1, 2008 4:30 PM CST
Courts confront culture issues, panel says
Mar 1, 2008 3:30 PM CST
Twelve former presidents of the Grand Rapids Bar Association are protesting the “reckless” manner in which they say the Judicial Tenure Commission is investigating a Michigan judge.
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The president of the American Bar Association has written the president of the United States, expressing concern that six terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay…
Feb 28, 2008 7:55 PM CST
The ABA’s 555-member policy-making House of Delegates passed a measure late this afternoon expressing solidarity with Pakistani lawyers and judges who have been persecuted by their government after protesting suspension…
Feb 12, 2008 12:31 AM CST
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates has concurred in a revision to the Standards for Approval of Law Schools relating to bar passage…
Feb 12, 2008 12:07 AM CST
“I remember watching To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time,” Carolyn B. Lamm, a partner at White & Case in Washington, D.C. who became the ABA…
Feb 11, 2008 10:17 PM CST
The ABA has adopted a model rule that would grant conditional admission to the practice of law to applicants who have experienced chemical dependency or mental health conditions that otherwise…
Feb 11, 2008 8:03 PM CST
The ABA’s 555-member policy-making House of Delegates has called on states to amend their legal ethics rules to require prosecutors to disclose evidence creating a reasonable…
Feb 11, 2008 6:07 PM CST
The ABA House of Delegates is not the place for someone who likes to talk about the same subject all day.
Instead, the 555 delegates who…
Feb 11, 2008 3:07 PM CST
The first official act of the ABA’s new president-elect nominee today was to shake hands with one of the other two candidates in the race.
…Feb 10, 2008 8:23 PM CST
Three unrepentant lawyers who changed careers and now create popular culture’s view of the profession—they write for TV’s Law & Order, Boston Legal and Shark—talked freely Friday afternoon about how…
Feb 9, 2008 9:48 PM CST
Seven distinguished practitioners were honored Saturday with Spirit of Excellence Awards at the ABA Midyear Meeting in Los Angeles for their contributions to the legal profession and society.
The award,…
Feb 9, 2008 3:58 AM CST
Corrected: This week, Paul Caron’s blog got more attention than he bargained for.
Caron – the Associate Dean of Faculty and a law professor at the University of Cincinnati College…
Feb 9, 2008 2:00 AM CST
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