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ABA Approves Bar Pass Standards for Accreditation

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 rates, making numerical pass rates a factor in accreditation of law schools by the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. The measure (DOC), 113,…

Feb 12, 2008 12:07 AM CST

Likely ABA President Stands With Atticus

“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 president-elect nominee this weekend, told the ABA House of Delegates this afternoon. “I remember longing to stand beside [Atticus Fitch], to stand for…

Feb 11, 2008 10:17 PM CST

ABA OKs Conditional Admission to Bar for Would-Be Lawyers with Addiction, Mental Problems

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 would have rendered the applicants unfit to practice law. The rule would grant conditional admission to such applicants who demonstrate…

Feb 11, 2008 8:03 PM CST

ABA Calls For Tighter Prosecution Ethics Rules

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 likelihood that a defendant did not commit the crime for which he or she was convicted, and to take steps to remedy such convictions.…

Feb 11, 2008 6:07 PM CST

Bar-Pass Rates, Pakistani Lawyer Solidarity on ABA’s Agenda Today

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 make up the association’s policy-making body will forgo today’s expected balmy weather in Los Angeles to spend the day in a ballroom at the…

Feb 11, 2008 3:07 PM CST

White & Case Partner Nominated to Serve as ABA President in ‘09

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. Then Carolyn B. Lamm, a partner at White & Case in Washington, D.C., who works on international arbitrations, was swept up in the enthusiastic congratulations…

Feb 10, 2008 8:23 PM CST

Why are TV Lawyers Ethically Challenged? That’s Hollywood, Writers Say

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 and why they often portray lawyers as unethical and disgusting, as well as mangling various litigation rules and procedures in…

Feb 9, 2008 9:48 PM CST

Seven Receive Spirit of Excellence Awards

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, which is administered by the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, “celebrates the efforts and accomplishments…

Feb 9, 2008 3:58 AM CST

Law Prof Backtracks on Bar Pass Post

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 of Law – ignited a firestorm of controversy this week when he posted on his popular TaxProf Blog that seven…

Feb 9, 2008 2:00 AM CST

ABA to Measure Rule of Law in Four Countries, Including U.S.

Within the next few weeks, the ABA’s World Justice Project will start testing its theories of what defines the rule of law by sending fact-gathering teams to four countries, including the United States. This field work will be the first effort by the project to test the feasibility of the…

Feb 8, 2008 10:31 PM CST

Subprime Fallout Takes Center Stage at ABA Midyear

Some ABA sections get all the glory when the news media covers programs at the ABA midyear and annual meetings. The ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities is known for leaping into controversial issues, and the ABA Criminal Justice Section often finds a case in the news as the…

Feb 7, 2008 3:07 PM CST

ABA Approves Bar Pass Standards for Accreditation

Likely ABA President Stands With Atticus

ABA OKs Conditional Admission to Bar for Would-Be Lawyers with Addiction, Mental Problems

ABA Calls For Tighter Prosecution Ethics Rules

Bar-Pass Rates, Pakistani Lawyer Solidarity on ABA’s Agenda Today

White & Case Partner Nominated to Serve as ABA President in ‘09

Why are TV Lawyers Ethically Challenged? That’s Hollywood, Writers Say

Seven Receive Spirit of Excellence Awards

Law Prof Backtracks on Bar Pass Post

ABA to Measure Rule of Law in Four Countries, Including U.S.

Subprime Fallout Takes Center Stage at ABA Midyear

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