The U.S. Congress should enact legislation that establishes a State Judicial Threat Intelligence and Resource Center, the House of Delegates said at the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago on Monday.

The days of law students working in field placements for credit without monetary compensation may be coming to a close. The House of Delegates resolved Monday at the ABA Annual Meeting to urge law schools to let students receive payment and course credit for field placements.

“Individually, we have shortcomings and weaknesses,” incoming ABA President William R. “Bill” Bay told the ABA House of Delegates. “But we are strongest when we stand together, when we lift each other up, when we put aside the differences, which the world tells us should divide us.”

The ABA is calling for an end to nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements in employment contracts that “limit an employee’s ability to disclose information underlying claims of workplace harassment, discrimination or statutory workplace rights violations.”

A federal court has found that Google illegally abused its market power to quash competition in internet search. The ruling hands the Justice Department its biggest victory in more than two decades in limiting the power of Big Tech companies to control and dominate the huge markets they have created.

The House of Delegates called for greater protection for gender-affirming health care at the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago on Monday.

The ABA’s House of Delegates overwhelmingly agreed at its annual meeting Monday to oppose legislation permitting or requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools and to urge the repeal of such laws already in place.

ABA President Mary Smith warned of upcoming threats to democracy and urged the protection of American democracy during the 2024 ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago.

The House of Delegates urged the U.S. Congress to repeal a 151-year-old law that could be used to ban abortions at the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago on Monday.

A woman who contracted human papillomavirus after car sex isn’t entitled to damages from her sexual partner’s auto insurance policy, a federal appeals court has ruled.