ABA President Urges Passage of Equal Paycheck Fairness Act at Equal Pay Day...
ABA President Laurel Bellows takes center stage with U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon, Attorney General Lisa Madigan and other women leaders from Illinois at an Equal Pay Day rally April...
View ArticleABA Day 2013: Grassroots Advocacy Award Honors Two Lawyers
Kevin L. Shepherd of Venable LLP in Baltimore and William K. Weisenberg of the Ohio State Bar Association receive the American Bar Association Grassroots Advocacy Award April 16 from ABA President...
View ArticleNegotiation Expert Feinberg on High-Profile Dispute Resolution, Compensation...
Kenneth R. Feinberg, administrator of One Fund Boston, a compensation program designed to aid victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, explains the best practices for resolving high-profile disputes...
View ArticleSection of Litigation 2013 Annual Conference: General Counsel Share Insights...
A panel of general counsel discuss how adoption of new technology triggers ethical issues, impacts risk management and reshapes the legal representation of corporations. Panelists spoke during the...
View ArticleSection of Litigation 2013 Annual Conference: General Counsel Discuss Social...
A panel of general counsel discuss corporate social media policies and the need for crisis communications plans during the American Bar Association Section of Litigation’s Annual Conference April 25 in...
View ArticleABA Day 2013: 50 States Take ABA Message to Congress
Participants from all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., came together on Capitol Hill for ABA Day 2013, the association’s annual effort to connect policymakers with their constituents in the...
View ArticleABA Day 2013: ABA Congressional Justice Awards Recognize Leadership on Key...
President Laurel G. Bellows presented the American Bar Association’s Congressional Justice Award to six members of Congress who were recognized at a Library of Congress dinner April 17 on Capitol Hill....
View ArticleJustice Ginsberg Weighs In on Impact of International Law on Court Decisions,...
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg of the U.S. Supreme Court reflects on her career and the evolving High Court, during an April 26 luncheon at the American Bar Association Section of International...
View ArticleStand Your Ground Laws criticized during ABA hearing in Chicago
Local community activists and lawyers offer their perspectives on the impact of Stand Your Ground Laws during a regional hearing May 2 at American Bar Association headquarters in Chicago. The hearing...
View ArticleSection of Litigation 2013 Annual Conference: Former Major League Baseball...
Joe Torre, former Major League Baseball player and manager, and John Rich, professor at the Drexel University School of Public Health, discuss how to recognize and treat children who are victims of...
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