American Bar Association

ICC Turns Ten: A Measure of Justice

Kip Hale | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Human Rights Violations, American Bar Association, International Criminal Law, Human Rights, International Human Rights, International Law, Diplomacy, International Relations, International Criminal Court, International Humanitarian Law, World News

In this tenth year of the ICC, it is an appropriate time to take stock of the Court's progress in its primary mission: end impunity through the just rule of law.

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Alberto Gonzales: 'Mean' Talk On Immigration Hurting GOP With Hispanic Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Video, American Bar Association, DREAM Act, Elections 2012, Hispanic Voters, Immigration, Hispanics, Alabama Immigration Law, Arizona Immigration Law, Alberto Gonzales, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- who was the first person of Hispanic descent to hold that position and a lightning rod for c...

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A License to Steal: The Perils of Questionable Legal Representation

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Attorneys, Law, Lawyers, Dumb Crime, Crime, American Dream, Justice, Injustice, American Bar Association, Crime News

Cases like mine give the profession of lawyering a black eye. Individuals need to be careful when choosing a lawyer.

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Group Secretly Rating Obama Nominees Shrinks Number Of Women, Minorities For Judgeships

New York Times | Charlie Savage | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Judicial Vacancies, American Bar Association Vetting, American Bar Association, Aba, Obama Judicial Nominees, Harry Reid, Obama, Gloria Navarro, Judicial Nominees, Reid, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The American Bar Association has secretly declared a significant number of President Obama's potential judicial nominees "not qualified,...

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D.C. Has Nation's Highest Concentration Of Lawyers

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: DC News, Attorneys, American Bar Association, Natwar Gandhi, Lawyers, Video, Vincent Gray, Kwame Brown, District of Columbia, D.C. Lawyers, DC News

WASHINGTON -- While it's no secret that the nation's capital is full of lawyers, a new study gives a better picture as to just how many District of Co...

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American Bar Association Takes Aim At Lobbying Law Loopholes

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: American Bar Association, Campaign Fundraising, Aba, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Lobbyist Disclosure Act, Lobbying Laws, Campaign Finance, Politics News

Under current law, lobbyists seeking consideration for their clients can sweeten the pot by throwing massive fundraisers for the members of Congress t...

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ABA Urges Congress To Reject Birthright Law

AP | By ROB GILLIES | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Latinos, Latino, Law, Congress, American Bar Association, Hispanics, Birthright Law, Latino-Politics, Latino Voices News

TORONTO -- The American Bar Association passed a resolution Tuesday urging the U.S. Congress to reject any changes to the Constitution that would elim...

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Young Lawyers Forced To Find Jobs Outside Legal Profession

The Huffington Post | Holly Nunn | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: American Bar Association, Lawyers, Capitol Hill, Villanova Law School, Sen. Charles Grassley, Arlington Dog Nanny, Law Degree, Woofs! Dog Training Center, Law School, Student Loans, broadbandbreakfast.com, Business News

Earning a degree -- and accumulating student loan debt -- drives today's young lawyers to get creative with their livelihoods....

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The U.S. May Need More Lawyers!

Clifford Winston | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Lawyers, American Bar Association, Legalzoom, Business News

The solution to the "trouble with lawyers" is counter-intuitive: we may need more of them -- or, at least, we must spur more competition among them by busting the lawyer monopoly!

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Foreclosure Notices Being Issued Via Facebook

Time | TARA-NICHOLLE NELSON | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Debt Collectors, American Bar Association, Foreclosure Crisis, Canbarra, Twitter, Mortgage, Australia, Lenders, Robo-Signing, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Fraud, Borrowers, Foreclosure Notices, Youtube, Facebook, Business News

The most distressing content most of us have ever seen on Facebook falls within the realm of the overshare: your boss's Vegas stag party pics, or your...

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Making Reunification Possible For Families Split By Foster Care

Michael Piraino | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Foster Children, National Reunification Days, American Bar Association, Substance Abuse, Child Abuse, Foster Care, Reunification, Impact News

Reunification in many cases is a testament to the exceptionally hard work by parents to overcome cycles of abuse, drugs and violence, and to recreate bonds with their children.

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The Worst Bullying PSA Ever

Rosalind Wiseman | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Education, Cyberbullying, Advice, Bullying, Teens, American Bar Association, US Department of Education, Microsoft, Time Warner, Psa, Education News

A cyber-bullying PSA presented by the American Bar Association manages to not only be laughably stereotypical, but send the message that suicide is the best revenge against bullies.

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Online Law Schools Have Yet To Pass The Bar

US News and World Report | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Bar Association, Abraham Lincoln University School of Law, Online j.d., Kaplan University, Online Law Schools Merit, Online Law Schools, Concord Law School, California School of Law, College News

Enrolling in an online J.D. program may seem like a convenient alternative to spending three years and more than $100,000 on a traditional legal educa...

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Rehab For "Terminally Unique" Lawyers

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hazelden, Drinking Problems, Drug Addiction, Drug Treatment, American Bar Association, Lawyers, Recovery, Drug Addiction Treatment, Alcoholism, Alcoholic, Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Lawyer, Substance Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholics Anonymous, Georgetown Law School, Healthy Living News

Whether it is because they are members of a stressful profession or because personalities with a penchant for addictive disorders are drawn to the law, lawyers have twice the addiction rate of the general population.

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A Formula for Failure

Michael Bendetson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Medical Malpractice, Antonin Scalia, TSA Security, China, Investment Banks, Goldman Sachs, President Jimmy Carter, Wall Street, New Jersey, Harvard University, Bureau of Labor, South Korea, Great Recession, American Bar Association, India, Ivy League Schools, Politics News

The Great Recession has exposed a major flaw in the American economy beyond risky derivatives: an intellectual elite that now seeks success at the expense of our society -- instead of through it.

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The Marketing Genius of Erectile Dysfunction

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.25.2011

We must tip our hats to the creative and strategic geniuses among us who took one of the most embarrassing maladies literally known to man and made it sexy.

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Zenovia Evans On MSNBC, 'Looking Thinner'

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law School Hunger Strike, American Bar Association, Law Schools, Cooley Law School, Zenovia Evans, Law School Transparency, Law School, College News, Ethan Haines, College News

Can't get enough of Zenovia Evans, the fake unemployed lawyer behind UnemployedJD.com who went on hunger strike? MSNBC invited "a thinner-looking" E...

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'Unemployed JD' Is Actually EMPLOYED

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cooley Law School, Law School Transparency, Zenovia Evans, American Bar Association, Law Schools, Law School Hunger Strike, Ethan Haines, Above the Law, Law School, College News

Support for Ethan Haines, the unemployed-lawyer-on-hunger-strike whom Huffington Post e-interviewed at the start of the strike, has backfired as USA T...

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Shades of Grey

Andrea Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, American Bar Association, Death Penalty, Eric Holder, Politics News

Deciding whether or not to seek the death penalty is a decision that requires a level of legal and moral analysis that any thoughtful person would avoid at all costs.

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Why Judge Walker's Sexuality Doesn't Matter

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vaughn Walker Prop 8, American Bar Association, Prop 8, Abortion Rights, Civil Rights, Judicial Bias, Judge Vaughn Walker, Perry v Schwarzenegger, Judge-Vaughn-Walker, California Gay Marriage, Vaughn Walker, Prop 8 Trial, Gay Rights, Prop 8 Decision, Federal Prop 8 Trial, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Reasonable people can debate the merits of Judge Walker's opinion, but his sexuality is not a valid ground to critique his legal logic.

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Washington's Gain Is the Nation's Loss

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

The Washington economy is super-charged by the inflow of new federal government money and the legal and lobbying business generated by a government proposing and issuing new laws and rules.

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On The Cusp of History

Laura W. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, American Bar Association, Congress, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Drug War, Crack Cocaine, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, War on Drugs, Naacp, Cocaine, Politics News

Anyone who works on reforming the criminal justice system can attest to the fact that such efforts often take years of commitment and dedication befor...

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The Debt Relief Rip-Off

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Desperate people want to believe it's true. They want to believe that there are companies that can easily get rid of their credit card debt. More often than not, they are deeply disappointed.

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Non-Profit Self Dealing at the Core of Health Care Inflation?

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, American Bar Association, Charity, Health Care Costs, Defensive Medicine, Nonprofit, Health Insurance, Fraud, Corporations, Health, Health Care Reform, Self Dealing, Hospitals, Medicare, Corporate Greed, Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

What is self dealing? Self dealing is directing business of the corporation to entities in which the director or board member may have interest.

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Report: Race Matters in Judicial Decision-Making

Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Judge, Judiciary, American Bar Association, Congress, Race, Barack Obama, Racial Harassment, Discrimination, Robert Kelley, Racial, Harassment, Pat Chew, Politics News

If people of all races are to believe in judicial fairness, a more diverse bench is a good place to start.

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