The ABA continued its series of measures on diversity and inclusion—a theme for outgoing ABA President Paulette Brown—on Tuesday by passing two resolutions on the subject.
In the wake of a failed coup attempt by the Turkish military, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrested about 3,000 lawyers, judges and journalists in the country without charges or…
A resolution calling on Congress to make privately drafted parts of the law freely available attracted accusations in the House of Delegates that the ABA was trying to give away…
In a speech to the ABA’s House of Delegates at its annual meeting in San Francisco on Monday, Executive Director Jack Rives talked about daunting realities of contraction and wide-ranging…
In ABA President Linda A. Klein’s inaugural speech on Monday at the association’s annual meeting in San Francisco, she outlined three ambitious initiatives for her year-long term. These initiatives…
On Monday, the ABA’s House of Delegates easily passed and strongly condemned the use of for-profit, privatized probation companies funded by the offenders themselves.
The ABA’s Resolution 109 has attracted a lot of controversy outside the organization. The measure makes it a violation of professional responsibility to discriminate or harass in conduct related…
A resolution urging legal services providers—large law firms, in-house legal departments and others—to expand opportunities for attorneys of all backgrounds met with strong approval in the ABA’s House of Delegates…
ABA President Paulette Brown offered her final remarks this morning to the ABA House of Delegates, capping off her historic year as the first female African-American president of the association—and…
The ABA’s House of Delegates easily passed a resolution Monday calling for confidentiality in communications between lawyer referral services and their clients.
Multiple local bar groups and sections joined the…
One of a few themes that threaded through acceptance speeches by the five award recipients at the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award luncheon at the ABA Annual Meeting…
Alexandra Darraby really wanted to get to the Rothko. So did I, but we each had our own reasons for making the pilgrimage to the gallery at the San Francisco…
As expected, the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services delivered plenty of recommendations for how the bar can close the access to justice gap in America, while steering…
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