CHICAGO, Feb. 14, 2012 – Leading aviation law experts from government and industry—including U.S. Rep. John Mica, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Susan Baer, aviation director of the Port Authority of New York and New …
CHICAGO, Feb. 8, 2012 – The American Bar Association is calling on entities that administer a law school admission test to provide appropriate accommodations for test takers with disabilities to best ensure that the exam results reflect what the exam is …
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2012—The American Bar Association has adopted new policy on a number of key legal issues. The association’s 560-member House of Delegates met today during its Midyear Meeting. Some legislatures have sought recently to regulate the …
First New York Lawyer to Lead ABA in More Than 25 Years NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 6, 2012 – New York City lawyer James R. Silkenat, a partner in the national law firm of Sullivan & Worcester, was nominated today to become president-elect of the American Bar …
ABA Program to Look at First Amendment Rights, Conflicting Science Views WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 3, 2012 — Are all government regulations of violent video games and programming for children obsolete? How can courts make sense of conflicting social …
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 3, 2012 — The impact of WikiLeaks and the implication of it altering the role of the free press and national security law will be explored at the 17 th Forum on Communications Law Annual CLE Conference in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 10. …
Fmr FL Supreme Court Chief Justice, Child Advocates and Former Foster Youth Slated to Speak WASHINGTON, D.C., February 2, 2012 — Leading children’s rights advocates from Florida and across the country will highlight the urgent need for abused and …
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 1, 2012— Innovative veterans programs, issues related to female veterans, military sexual trauma and defending veterans in criminal court will be topics of an interactive discussion of national and local issues related to …
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 30, 2012 — The American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law will host its premier International Cartel Workshop at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Feb 1-3. The workshop is co-sponsored by the International …
CHICAGO, Jan. 26, 2012— Indigent defense, pretrial diversion, juvenile justice, cybercrime and whistleblower cases are chief among criminal justice issues that will be explored at the 2012 American Bar Association Midyear Meeting , Feb. 1 – 6, in New …
CHICAGO, Jan. 26, 2012— Preventing foreclosures, a public hearing on proposed amendments to the Model Code of Judicial Conduct regarding judicial disqualification, women’s challenges in the legal profession and many other legal topics will be featured at …
Standards for Language Access, Reliability of Online Legal Material Measures Also Slated for Votes CHICAGO, Jan. 24, 2012—The American Bar Association will address legal policy issues ranging from law enforcement access to third-party records, to the …
CHICAGO, Jan. 18, 2012 – In an amicus brief filed in the combined cases of Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs, the American Bar Association urges the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that it is unconstitutional to give a life sentence without the possibility …
CHICAGO, Jan. 17, 2012 — The U.S. state court funding crisis, efforts to ensure access to justice, foreclosure prevention and disaster preparedness are the focus of just some of the legal programs at the American Bar Association Midyear Meeting in New …
CHICAGO, Jan. 13, 2012 – In an amicus brief filed in Filarsky v. Delia, which the U.S. Supreme Court will hear on Jan. 17, the American Bar Association is urging the court to protect the public interest by ruling that outside lawyers hired to do government …
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 5, 2012 — In a Dec. 21, 2011, letter to the International Monetary Fund, the American Bar Association and the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe express concerns that proposed reforms to the legal profession in several …
CHICAGO, Jan. 3, 2012—In a brief filed today in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Tennessee, Knoxville Division, the American Bar Association responded to a complaint filed by Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law. The response …
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2012 — In a Dec. 30, 2011, letter to President Barack Obama, American Bar Association President Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III expressed the association’s views that presidential signing statements are “contrary to the rule of law and our …
CHICAGO, Dec. 13, 2011 – Indigent parent-defendants in abuse or neglect proceedings in which the state is seeking custody of their minor children should have the right to state-provided counsel, according to an American Bar Association amicus brief filed …
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 7, 2011 — A two-year review of Kentucky’s system of capital punishment concludes that the commonwealth doesn’t adequately ensure fairness or sufficiently guard against executing the innocent. The report, released today by the …
