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ABA to consider recommending in-person bar exams be postponed during COVID-19 pandemic

A resolution urging state courts of last resort to cancel in-person bar exams during the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop alternate plans to license candidates, will be considered by the ABA House of Delegates assembly.

Aug 3, 2020 10:25 AM CDT

Despite ardent support, ABA House votes down measure giving a ‘state’ delegate to US Virgin Islands

A bid to give the U.S. Virgin Islands their own delegate to the ABA House of Delegates failed Monday morning to reach the required two-thirds vote.

Aug 12, 2019 3:28 PM CDT

Island lawyers start to pick up the pieces in the wake of hurricanes

As someone who had lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands since he graduated from law school in 1982, Tom Bolt has experienced hurricane damage firsthand. “In 1989 we had Hurricane Hugo, which devastated St. Croix,” says Bolt, shareholder and managing attorney of BoltNagi P.C. and member of the ABA Board…

Sep 29, 2017 3:45 PM CDT

Legal aid hotline opens for Hurricane Irma victims

Updated: A legal aid hotline has opened for Hurricane Irma victims in Florida who can’t afford a lawyer. The hotline number is 866-550-2929, report the Orlando Sentinel and an ABA press release. The hotline is operated by young lawyers divisions of the ABA and the Florida Bar, in conjunction with…

Sep 14, 2017 10:27 AM CDT

Florida Bar raises income cap for Free Legal Answers website to help Hurricane Irma victims

The Florida Bar has raised the income cap for users of the Florida Free Legal Answers online legal clinic to help more victims of Hurricane Irma get answers to their legal questions.

Sep 11, 2017 8:31 AM CDT

Lawyers can’t be ‘conscripted’ to represent indigents, rules US Virgin Islands Supreme Court

The Virgin Islands Supreme Court has ruled that the U.S. territory’s trial court of general jurisdiction violated a statute by forcing lawyers into involuntary appointments as counsel in indigent criminal cases, the Virgin Islands Daily News reports. The Nov. 25 ruling came in a case brought by two members of…

Dec 1, 2015 1:30 PM CST

ABA to consider recommending in-person bar exams be postponed during COVID-19 pandemic

Despite ardent support, ABA House votes down measure giving a ‘state’ delegate to US Virgin Islands

Island lawyers start to pick up the pieces in the wake of hurricanes

Legal aid hotline opens for Hurricane Irma victims

Florida Bar raises income cap for Free Legal Answers website to help Hurricane Irma victims

Lawyers can’t be ‘conscripted’ to represent indigents, rules US Virgin Islands Supreme Court

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