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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2025 — The American Bar Association (ABA) today issued an alert to the public regarding a sharp increase in the number of individuals fraudulently posing as immigration attorneys, ...

Why are sports so deeply rooted in the shared values, norms, and institutions of a society, no matter which country it is?

CHICAGO, June 16, 2025 — The American Bar Association today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, more than two dozen federal departments and agencies, and the heads of those departments and ...

CHICAGO, May 9, 2025 – Today the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted during its Council meeting to extend the suspension of Standard 206 until August 31, 2026 ...

CHICAGO, April 23, 2025 — Employment data for the graduating law class of 2024, as reported by American Bar Association-approved law schools accepting new J.D. students to the ABA Section of Legal ...

CHICAGO, March 26, 2025 — We the undersigned bar organizations stand together with and in support of the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts ...