Corrected: New Jersey’s Paulette Brown was formally nominated Sunday to become ABA president in 2015. She will be the first woman of color to head the nearly 400,000-member association.
After several years and as many false starts, an ABA committee has for the time being given up trying to improve upon the existing bar exam requirements in the law…
A third-wave survey of lawyers who passed the bar in 2000 has found a decline in the percentage of lawyers practicing law and major differences in pay based on gender,…
Students of color, particularly boys, are suspended and expelled at alarming rates, and zero-tolerance school discipline polices fail the communities they serve, said speakers on an panel sponsored by various…
Corrected: Many of us don’t save enough money, we often overeat, and we sometimes marry the wrong people, says Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s…
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar got an earful of feedback this week on its latest proposed changes to the law…
The ABA should create a task force or a commission to undertake an in-depth examination of law school price and funding issues, an ABA task force says.
The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar hasn’t received much in the way of a response to its latest proposed changes in the law school accreditation…
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