President Lamm Hopes Full ABA Backing Will Help Win Loan Breaks for Law Grads

After months of calling on Congress to provide debt relief for law graduates struggling economically with the rest of the country, ABA President Carolyn B. Lamm is hopeful she’ll leave the ABA Midyear Meeting in Orlando, Fla., with more ammunition for her efforts. On Friday, the ABA Board of Governors…

Feb 6, 2010 11:52 PM CST

MDP and Law Practice Approaches Abroad Are on Table for Ethics 20/20 Commission

As the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 begins to shift its work into high gear, one of its co-chairs indicated today that the commission’s mission is not to change the world when it comes to lawyer ethics, but rather to adapt ethics rules for U.S. lawyers to changes going on…

Feb 6, 2010 1:10 AM CST

Recession Hurting Legal Profession’s Diversity Efforts, Report Says

Recessionary concerns are undermining efforts to achieve greater diversity in the legal profession, states an ABA report that will be released Friday at the association’s 2010 midyear meeting. “While law firms have increasingly come to recognize that diverse corporate clients and international markets often require lawyer diversity, the recession is…

Feb 4, 2010 4:02 PM CST

ABA Hiring Personnel for Haiti Legal Recovery Effort

The ABA and other legal groups are pushing to rebuild and support Haiti’s legal system after the earthquake destroyed the courthouse in Port-au-Prince and reportedly killed several judges. Haiti’s chief judge was among the judges thought to be killed in the earthquake, the Daily Business Review reports. “Though some Port-au-Prince…

Feb 3, 2010 3:56 PM CST

ABA Commission Proposes Independent Court to Help Fix ‘Broken Immigration System’

A sweeping report released this morning by the ABA Commission on Immigration proposes the creation of an independent structure for hearing cases involving immigrants facing removal from the United States to replace the system that currently operates out of the Justice Department. “The ABA commissioned this study as our country…

Feb 2, 2010 3:07 PM CST

Holding a Mirror to the Profession

Our justice system should reflect the diversity of those seeking to break barriers

Feb 1, 2010 10:00 AM CST

A Breach Too Far

Cybersecurity concerns may foster changes in lawyer ethics rules

Feb 1, 2010 8:30 AM CST

Strength in Numbers

ABA recognizes national effort to help Holocaust survivors seek reparations

Feb 1, 2010 7:10 AM CST

Halftime Report

ABA President Carolyn Lamm says association is moving in the right direction

Feb 1, 2010 7:00 AM CST

Cultivating Capitol Hill

ABA develops strategies to bolster its grassroots lobbying efforts

Feb 1, 2010 6:50 AM CST

ABA Announcements

Feb 1, 2010 6:40 AM CST

ABA and Reed Smith File Briefs Urging Supreme Court to Hear Privilege Case

The American Bar Association and the law firm Reed Smith are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant cert in a case involving the scope of work product protections for lawyer materials. Reed Smith wrote a brief on its own behalf and for two of its clients—a sign of the…

Jan 28, 2010 4:13 PM CST

Lawyers Travel to Haiti to Help After Quake; ABA Launches Disaster Relief Portal

As lawyers, bar organizations and law firms gear up to support the relief effort in Haiti, some are donating not only money but their personal efforts, on the ground, to help out. And it isn’t easy. An obviously drained Dale Thuillez spent three days last week flying medical supplies and…

Jan 28, 2010 3:36 AM CST

Judge Orders Convicted Tax Lawyers to Warn About Misleading the IRS

A judge has ordered two Ernst & Young tax lawyers convicted of selling illegal tax shelters to spread the word about the consequences of their wrongdoing. The lawyers, Robert Coplan and Martin Nissenbaum, were sentenced Thursday, the New York Law Journal reports. Coplan was sentenced to three years in prison…

Jan 22, 2010 3:29 PM CST

Martin Luther King Jr.‘s Dream Is Not Yet a Reality

Martin Luther King Jr. famously had a dream. The nation he foresaw, in which fairness and equality had triumphed and no one was judged by the color of his or her skin, is not yet a reality. But significant progress has been made towards the goals the slain civil rights…

Jan 19, 2010 10:19 PM CST