U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland called upon the American Bar Association to support victims of the Russian war on Ukraine at the ABA Annual Meeting in Denver on Monday.

Deborah Enix-Ross, in her final speech as president of the ABA, encouraged the House of Delegates to “keep climbing.”

The U.S. Supreme Court should adopt and publish a code of conduct, according to recommendations released Friday by an ABA task force created to recommend steps to increase the public’s trust and understanding of the judiciary.

A special committee appointed to investigate the competence of a 96-year-old federal appeals judge is recommending that she be suspended from hearing all cases for a year for failing to cooperate in the probe.

A judge in Wayne County, Michigan, has been censured and suspended for six months without pay for hiding evidence that her son had physically abused one of her grandsons.

The Commission on Women in the Profession will honor Justice Sabrina S. McKenna, Melissa Murray, Yvette Ostolaza, Deborah Willig and Jill Wine-Banks with the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award at the 2023 ABA Annual Meeting.

Talent wars helped push the national median salary for class of 2022 law graduates to a record high of $85,000, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Association for Law Placement.

The 2023 ABA Annual Meeting runs from Wednesday, Aug. 2, through Tuesday, Aug. 8, at the Colorado Convention Center.

In terms of big life choices, deciding where to attend law school may be in the top 5 for aspiring attorneys. Most face the prospect of taking on significant debt to pay tuition and living expenses, along with the stress of selecting a school they think will lead to the best job opportunities and not knowing if it will be easy to make friends where they land.