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Reid Criticizes ABA Judicial Nomination Evaluation

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada criticized the American Bar Association on Thursday after some members of the organization’s…

ABA To Cut Dues for Solo Lawyers and Public Service

The American Bar Association will cut the cost of dues for solo practitioners, government lawyers, judges and attorneys working for…

Study Finds Women Judges Still Under-Represented

A study released by the University at Albany-SUNY’s Center for Women in Government and Civil Society found that women judges…

John Mings, Partner at Baker Hostetler, Commits Suicide

John Jason Mings committed suicide last Monday according to police findings released to the public. He was 45 years old.…

ABA’s Loan Relief Proposal for Law Graduates Rejected by Congress

Despite recent efforts from the American Bar Association to help recent law school graduates defer their student loans, neither the…

Morning Roundup

Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, November 19 and this is your quick look back at the headlines. A judge…

Changing of the Guard at the ABA

Henry White has resigned as the executive director of the American Bar Association. R. Thomas Howell, the organization's general counsel,…

ABA Offers Free Suicide Prevention Info

With two recent attorney suicides, and one from December just now announced, all probably spurred to the economic downturn, the…

ABA: 3,500 Laid Off in March

The American Bar Association estimates that at least 3,500 attorneys and staff lost their jobs in March 2009. In February,…

CJA Attorneys Get Pay Raise

Attorneys working assignments under the federal will see their fees bumped up from $100 to $110 per hour, with funds…

Marshall Gerstein Attorney Establishes LGBT Scholarship

Jeremy D. Protas, an attorney with the intellectual property law firm of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, has announced the…

ABA Lowers Ethics Requirement for Lateral Hiring

The American Bar Association's House of Delegates voted yesterday to amend its Model Rule of Professional Conduct governing conflicts of…