Recent events, including an executive order on flag burning and comments and actions from elected and appointed officials with respect to comic material on broadcast television, have raised the ...

The American Bar Association is greatly concerned about the recent pattern of actions by the Department of Justice that continue to erode the department’s historical independence from political ...

The American Bar Association’s Commission on Disability Rights spoke with leaders from three private law firms about why disability rights-centered pro bono work can be a win-win.

The American Bar Association Women Trailblazers in the Law Project today announced the release of the oral history of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to be a ...

Judges and lawyers should not be punished “for simply doing their job,” Delissa Ridgway, a judge with the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York, said during a recent American Bar Association ...

This fall, the American Bar Association Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA) marks 10 years of standing up for the rights of immigrant children. What began as a vision to ensure unaccompanied chi ...

American Bar Association files suit to halt government intimidation of lawyers and law firms.

Every year the ABA Law Student Division and the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs (CoLap) collaborate to offer programs and provide resources for Law Student Mental Health Day scheduled ...

The Section’s home for M&A. We regularly produce content highly valued by M&A lawyers and other dealmakers (see links in the sections below). Mission Statement Establishes, discusses, debates, and ...

The new ABA resolution supports two important legal principles: (1) a deadline for ratification of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not consistent with Article V of the Constitution, and (2) ...

The ABA recognizes the second Thursday of October as Ombuds Day to highlight the ombuds profession. The goals of Ombuds Day are to improve public awareness of ombuds, to connect ombuds in their ...

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