Lawyer Bands Are Battling to Win ABA Contest, and You Can Help Select the Winner

Can’t identify with the contestants in American Idol? Then consider voting in a different contest: the ABA Battle of the Lawyer Bands. A lawyer panel has selected five finalists playing a variety of music, including big band tunes, country rock, blues and soul. Now voting is open to the public.…

May 1, 2012 2:19 PM CDT

Law Day Theme Focuses on Crisis in Court Funding

The ABA is joining with civic and legal leaders today to focus on court funding as part of a Law Day commemoration. The Law Day theme is “No Courts. No Justice. No Freedom.” A press release and the ABA website outline Law Day events, including a Washington, D.C., press conference…

May 1, 2012 12:55 PM CDT

Honoring Our Military: ABA Strives to Meet Present, Future Needs of Armed Forces

May 1, 2012 9:30 AM CDT

Coupon, You’re On: 3 Opinions Say Lawyers May Participate in Daily-Deal Websites

May 1, 2012 7:39 AM CDT

Mission Accomplished: Military Spouse Network Gets ABA, White House Attention

May 1, 2012 6:40 AM CDT

ABA Treasurer’s Report: Fiscal Year Ending Aug 31, 2011

May 1, 2012 6:30 AM CDT

The Forgotten Demographic: ABA Wants an International Convention on Elder Rights

May 1, 2012 6:20 AM CDT

Legislative Logjam: ABA-Supported Bills Bog Down in Partisan Congress

May 1, 2012 6:09 AM CDT

Start Packing: ABA’s DC Staff Will Move Buildings by End of Next Summer

May 1, 2012 6:00 AM CDT

Lawyers Giving Back

May 1, 2012 5:50 AM CDT

ABA Announcements

May 1, 2012 5:40 AM CDT

ABA Standards Review Committee to Offer Two Alternate Approaches to LSAT Requirement

An ABA committee has tentatively agreed on two alternative approaches to the current requirement in the Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools that all law school applicants must take a valid and reliable admissions test. The first approach would keep a pared-down version of the current…

Apr 30, 2012 9:18 PM CDT

Despite ABA Accreditation Issue, Duncan Law Grads Can Sit for Tenn. Bar Exam

Denied in December the provisional accreditation it had hoped to win from the American Bar Association, a Tennessee law school, in addition to filing an appeal directly with the ABA, has been waging a federal court battle, as yet unsuccessfully, to force the ABA to change its mind. However, Lincoln…

Apr 25, 2012 7:30 PM CDT

‘Bucky’ Askew, ABA’s Legal Education Consultant, Is Leaving

Hulett “Bucky” Askew, the ABA’s consultant on legal education, is leaving the association at the end of August. Askew’s departure was announced Monday (PDF) on the website of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. He will be returning to his hometown of Atlanta. Askew, 69, said…

Apr 24, 2012 4:31 PM CDT

ABA Asks Consumer Watchdog Agency to Withdraw Proposed Rule on Privileged Information

The ABA is expressing concern that a proposed rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could weaken, rather than safeguard, protections for attorney-client privilege and work product. The ABA says the proposed rule should be withdrawn until legislation is passed to provide explicit protection for privileged bank materials shared with…

Apr 20, 2012 10:59 AM CDT