Bar Associations

ABA Announces Nominations

House of Delegates will finalize selections for leadership posts

Apr 1, 2008 3:02 PM CDT

Boston Bar Prez Decries Law’s Focus on Money

Too many lawyers judge their success on the basis of money, to the detriment of the profession and their own happiness. That’s the conclusion of Boston Bar Association President Anthony Doniger, who sees contentment as a better measure of success. The focus on money is causing law firms to make…

Mar 11, 2008 3:32 PM CDT

Hollywood Zingers

Movies and TV portray lawyers without apology

Mar 1, 2008 6:10 PM CST

Gathering Facts

ABA to check U.S. and other countries for rule of law

Mar 1, 2008 5:30 PM CST

Endorsing Early Treatment

Conditional bar admission aims to encourage timely help

Mar 1, 2008 5:00 PM CST

A Lamm Shall Lead

D.C.-based lawyer nominated to be president-elect

Mar 1, 2008 4:30 PM CST

Unexpected Truths

Courts confront culture issues, panel says

Mar 1, 2008 3:30 PM CST

Bar Presidents Protest ‘Reckless’ Investigation of Mich. Judge

Twelve former presidents of the Grand Rapids Bar Association are protesting the “reckless” manner in which they say the Judicial Tenure Commission is investigating a Michigan judge. In a letter (PDF) to the commission, they say that District Judge Steven Servaas, who has been on the bench for 35 years,…

Feb 29, 2008 5:08 PM CST

ABA Offers Gitmo Tribunal Help, UK Bar Groups Voice Fairness Concerns

The president of the American Bar Association has written the president of the United States, expressing concern that six terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in capital cases may not receive fair trials under current military tribunal procedures that don’t comply with established standards for…

Feb 28, 2008 7:55 PM CST

ABA Expresses Solidarity With Pakistani Lawyers

The ABA’s 555-member policy-making House of Delegates passed a measure late this afternoon expressing solidarity with Pakistani lawyers and judges who have been persecuted by their government after protesting suspension of the Pakistani constitution by President Pervez Musharraf. Resolution 10D passed by a unanimous voice vote—the only vote without even…

Feb 12, 2008 12:31 AM CST

ABA Approves Bar Pass Standards for Accreditation

The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates has concurred in a revision to the Standards for Approval of Law Schools relating to bar passage rates, making numerical pass rates a factor in accreditation of law schools by the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. The measure (DOC), 113,…

Feb 12, 2008 12:07 AM CST

Likely ABA President Stands With Atticus

“I remember watching To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time,” Carolyn B. Lamm, a partner at White & Case in Washington, D.C. who became the ABA president-elect nominee this weekend, told the ABA House of Delegates this afternoon. “I remember longing to stand beside [Atticus Fitch], to stand for…

Feb 11, 2008 10:17 PM CST

ABA OKs Conditional Admission to Bar for Would-Be Lawyers with Addiction, Mental Problems

The ABA has adopted a model rule that would grant conditional admission to the practice of law to applicants who have experienced chemical dependency or mental health conditions that otherwise would have rendered the applicants unfit to practice law. The rule would grant conditional admission to such applicants who demonstrate…

Feb 11, 2008 8:03 PM CST

ABA Calls For Tighter Prosecution Ethics Rules

The ABA’s 555-member policy-making House of Delegates has called on states to amend their legal ethics rules to require prosecutors to disclose evidence creating a reasonable likelihood that a defendant did not commit the crime for which he or she was convicted, and to take steps to remedy such convictions.…

Feb 11, 2008 6:07 PM CST

Bar-Pass Rates, Pakistani Lawyer Solidarity on ABA’s Agenda Today

The ABA House of Delegates is not the place for someone who likes to talk about the same subject all day. Instead, the 555 delegates who make up the association’s policy-making body will forgo today’s expected balmy weather in Los Angeles to spend the day in a ballroom at the…

Feb 11, 2008 3:07 PM CST