Laura V. Farber, a partner at Hahn & Hahn LLP in Pasadena, California, today assumed the role of president-elect of the American Bar Association. Farber will serve a one-year term in that role before ...

At the ABA Annual Conference in Chicago, Barbara J. Howard, principal of the Barbara J. Howard law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio, has assumed the role of president of the American Bar Association for a one ...

CHICAGO, July 22, 2026 — The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released a formal opinion today addressing when the Model Rules of Professional ...

CHICAGO, June 24, 2026 — The American Bar Association’s flagship magazine, the ABA Journal, and the University of Miami’s Schools of Law and Arts & Sciences are proud to announce the launch of the ...

CHICAGO, April 22, 2026 — Overall, 87.7% of class of 2025 graduates from Council-accredited law schools were reported to be employed in full-time, long-term Bar Admission Required/Anticipated or J.D.

This book is a resource for lawyers who want to learn about Community Land Trusts and who may be called upon to assist with their formation and operation. It gathers seminal texts on CLTs together in ...

CHICAGO, March 11, 2026 — The pass rate for first-time takers who sat for the bar exam rose by more than a percentage point in 2025 over 2024, according to new data from the managing director’s office ...

CHICAGO, Dec. 15, 2025 – Information about fall 2025 enrollment, scholarships and other matters reported by Council-approved law schools to the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and ...

CHICAGO, Dec. 3, 2025 — The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released a formal opinion that provides guidance for disclosure and confidentiality ...

In this Rapid Response episode, Stacy Brustin, Member of the ABA Commission on Immigration & Director of the Immigration Law & Policy Initiative at The Catholic University of America, and Luvia ...

CHICAGO, Nov. 19, 2025 — The American Bar Association (ABA) recently documented more than a dozen reports nationwide of individuals fraudulently posing as immigration attorneys who work for the ABA.

On October 31, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education published its final regulation revising the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, allowing the Secretary to disqualify employers from ...