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Bucking a Backlog

ABA pitches in to reduce delays in resolving disability claims

Oct 2, 2009 12:30 AM CDT

Holder Speech Highlights ABA Annual Meeting

New attorney general says administration will seek “smart” strategies to address crime

Sep 2, 2009 1:40 AM CDT

Wells: FTC Delay on ‘Red Flag Rule’ Aids ABA Effort

A recent decision to suspend implementation of a controversial federal regulation aimed at preventing identity theft gives the ABA more time to press its argument that the regulation should not be applied to lawyers, said H. Thomas Wells Jr. at his final press briefing as ABA president.

Sep 2, 2009 1:30 AM CDT

Ex-AGs Weigh Justice and Politics

Six former U.S. attorneys general, who served under four different presidents in the past 30 years, expressed serious concerns about proposed investigations into interrogation techniques employed—but now abandoned—in the war against terrorism.

Sep 2, 2009 1:20 AM CDT

Zack Understands Legal Concerns of Hispanic Community

It was just one moment in a hallway outside another hotel meeting room, but it offered a telling glimpse into the impact Stephen N. Zack is likely to have when he takes his turn as ABA president.

Sep 2, 2009 1:10 AM CDT

Souter Urges ABA to Help Improve Civics Education

Like the manner of the man who delivered it, the message was simple, direct and steeped in the heritage of traditional New England democracy: “We have to do something to improve civic education in the United States,” said retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter.

Sep 2, 2009 1:00 AM CDT

Lamm Becomes ABA President

Carolyn Lamm assumed the presidency of the ABA at the 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago, telling the House of Delegates that “the term rule of law may sound like an abstraction, but history is full of evidence that reminds us otherwise.”

Sep 2, 2009 12:50 AM CDT