A former Ohio lawyer has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of his divorce client outside his Cleveland office in March 2013, a crime said to have been orchestrated because the attorney wanted to delay the client’s trial.
For nearly 30 years, the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence has received federal funding to train and offer technical assistance to lawyers who support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. That changed abruptly on April 10.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to rule for parents who argue that they have a right to exclude their children from school lessons involving storybooks with LGBTQ characters and themes, according to publications that covered the oral arguments.
Released in 2025, Netflix’s Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing follows Piper Rockelle, who started appearing on YouTube at the age of 8 with the help of her “momager,” Tiffany Smith.
A former partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman has alleged in a lawsuit that the law firm fired him and forced the leader of the aircraft finance group to retire after disbanding the practice because they were both in their 60s.
A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday that blocks a cutoff in federal funding for representation in immigration court for minors who enter the United States without a parent or legal guardians.
To many people, pets are members of the family—and in abusive families, violence and threats of violence against pets are often used to victimize their human owners.
Divorce attorneys are bracing for a legal shift as more states adopt covenant marriage, a voluntary but restrictive contract limiting grounds for divorce.
The ABA is calling on lawyers to urge the Trump administration to reinstate full funding for legal services for tens of thousands of children who entered the United States alone.
While cases stemming from the second Trump administration’s torrent of executive actions begin to work their way up to the U.S. Supreme Court on the emergency docket, the court still has some important cases to hear in the final two months of argument for the term.
Updated: A former Duane Morris partner was arrested on an outstanding Michigan warrant at his condo in Chicago’s South Loop on Friday, the same building where his wife’s body was found in a stairwell in October 2024.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether a Colorado ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors—which aims to change sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling—violates the First Amendment.
A federal judge on Thursday blocked executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that target transgender people and their health care, giving temporary relief to LGBTQ+ individuals and their families, who braced for legal battles to continue.
The Florida Bar's board of governors could propose an ethics rule change as early as March that would allow lawyers to disclose confidential information to protect minor clients from harm.
