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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
The 92 members of the American Samoa Bar Association will have to wait a while to learn whether they will be granted representation in the ABA House of Delegates.
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