The ABA is planning to launch a web tool this fall that will provide one-stop shopping for resources that will help lawyers manage their legal practices.
A South Carolina ethics opinion on fee-sharing highlights a potential obstacle for Avvo’s fixed-fee legal referral service, launched this year in 18 states.
Two Ohio lawyers claim in a federal lawsuit that their First Amendment right to advertise is violated by the state’s ban on soliciting workers’ compensation claimants and the state’s refusal…
Lawyers excel at creating structure. They can weave disparate facts and convoluted laws into a coherent narrative that persuades a judge or a jury. They can merge two unrelated entities…
While the debate over non-lawyer ownership of law firms continues to rage in the United States, several lawyers in the U.K. seem to be pleased with the way outside investments…
A civil asset forfeiture case involving $3.5 billion in assets allegedly diverted from a Malaysian-owned economic development company has raised questions about the use of law firm trust accounts.
Hilarie Bass accepted the position of president-elect of the American Bar Association on Tuesday at its annual meeting in San Francisco in a speech that began with one of the…
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…
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…
Cadwalader has decided to cancel its summer associate program in Washington, D.C., after losing four antitrust partners, including rainmaker Charles “Rick” Rule, the managing partner of the D.C. office.
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…
The seemingly constant stream of new videos and other reports of African-Americans being shot by police under questionable circumstances is creating a crisis of confidence in the rule of law,…