In the first vote of the day, the ABA House of Delegates approved a resolution urging the expansion of the National Criminal Instant Background Check System (NICS) to “ensure its…
The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 has decided that the best policy for the association to take towards companies that rank law firms and lawyers is to pretty much just…
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor expressed concern Sunday that not even lawyers and members of the judiciary fully recognize the threat to state courts posed by funding…
This morning’s meeting of the ABA Nominating Committee turned into a two-man show now that the current races for the association’s two highest posts have become uncontested.
The U.S. and Canada share perhaps the longest unguarded border of any two countries in the world, running from the Atlantic Ocean across the North American continent. There is an…
ABA President Stephen N. Zack today called on lawyers to take the lead in returning civility to a public arena that has come to be dominated by anger and insult.
“When in Rome.” That was the motto extolled Saturday at the ABA Annual Meeting Toronto by a group of jurists who endorsed the use of social media in—and out—of the…
Libya’s ouster from the United Nations Human Rights Council this spring is evidence of progress, according to participants at an ABA Annual Meeting program.
While applauding Google’s unprecedented decision to disclose that its networks had been infiltrated by a China-based espionage operation in 2010, panelists at the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto expressed doubts…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer says he has seen the evidence that America is becoming increasingly polarized, and it’s colored in red and blue.
Following a threat to sue earlier this week, James G. Leipold, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement appeared before the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions…