ABA President-Elect Nominee Laurel Bellows told the ABA House of Delegates on Monday that the association should address the balance of individual liberties and national security in a more direct,…
The theme of underfunded courts continued Monday morning in the ABA House of Delegates with the president of the Conference of Chief Justices telling the policymaking body that “the fiscal…
The federal tax code should be amended to let “states recover overdue debts due to them, including court-ordered victims’ restitution, fines, fees and costs, by intercepting federal tax refunds that…
The federal judiciary should update its Case Management/Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF) system, which lawyers use to file court papers and the public uses to access those documents through the PACER…
Corrected: The promise of equal justice under law is under threat because of the underfunding of the justice system, ABA President Stephen N. Zack told the ABA House of Delegates…
State and federal judges should provide both prosecutors and defense counsel with a written checklist of the disclosure obligations of prosecutors under 1963’s Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963),…
The ABA’s policymaking House of Delegates Monday reaffirmed its support of the independence of law school clinical programs, which have been under attack in several states for some of the…
Corrected: Congressman John Lewis, D-Ga., who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom tomorrow, took the House of Delegates on a trip back to the…
The ABA’s Young Lawyers Division on Saturday voted to press for greater transparency for would-be lawyers considering law school to give them a greater understanding of the risks of assuming…
David B. Wilkins, one of the nation’s leading thinkers on where the legal profession is headed, received the outstanding scholar award Saturday from the fellows of the American Bar Foundation.…
Corrected: An unusual must-do has taken ABA Midyear Meeting attendees slightly off script, as they take in special viewings of The Conspirator, a soon-to-be-released film that tells…
Law practice is changing so fast and so dramatically that wholesale groups of lawyers either need to change how they operate or face finding another line of business.
Corrected: When the subject of value billing comes up among lawyers, David Boies says he is reminded of the little boy standing at the edge of a swimming pool telling…
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