Posts Tagged ‘ ABA ’

The ABA sounds off on foreign-trained attorneys

May 24th, 2011 | By | Category: Changing Legal Landscape, Top Story

24 May 2011 — Two items of note involving the ABA today in the legal media clippings: ABA Proposes Big Changes for LL.M.s Sitting for the bar exam may soon be trickier for the thousands of foreign-trained attorneys who take the test each year.  The New York Court of Appeals in April adopted stricter requirements [...]



Connecticut Bill Would Regulate Offshoring Document Review

Jan 19th, 2011 | By | Category: Contract Attorney Market: Trends

19 January 2011 – A Connecticut state legislator is concerned that the outsourcing of legal work has taken jobs away from recent law school grads and introduced a bill to address the “doc review” situation.  Under her proposal “unlicensed” offshore workers who engage in the drafting, reviewing or analyzing of legal documents for clients in [...]



ABA May Join Push for Law School Transparency

Oct 19th, 2010 | By | Category: Law Profession in Crisis

19 October 2010 — According to a story in today’s National Law Journal, the American Bar Association is considering requiring law schools to disclose cost and employment statistics to all accepted law school applicants.  The effort, dubbed “Truth in Law School Education,” is still in the planning phase. Meanwhile several ABA Sections and subcommittees are working on salary [...]



ABA Proposes Law Student Loan Relief

Nov 11th, 2009 | By | Category: Student loan debt, Top Story

11 November 2009 The American Bar Association is lobbying the Obama administration and Congress to extend relief to recent law school graduates who went into debt to finance their legal educations but haven’t been able to find a job because of the recession. The ABA wants the government to let unemployed graduates convert private loans [...]



Our heartfelt thanks to The Posse List membership

May 11th, 2009 | By | Category: Webinars, Seminars, Surveys

A hat tip to the Posse List membership, with special note to CF who writes:  “This is in response to your request for the CLE program What Lawyers Need to Know About Suicide During a Recession: Prevention, Identity and Law Firm Responsibility to be made free.  The recovery series can be accessed by clicking here. [...]



February 20th: Weekly “Top 10″ Electronic Discovery Updates

Feb 20th, 2009 | By | Category: Orange Technologies "Top 10" lists

It’s The Archer, Not The Arrow – http://tinyurl.com/acplrd ABA Delegates’ Meeting Goes Digital – http://tinyurl.com/c78e3w Survey: 80% of companies are not ready for government or regulatory investigations – http://tinyurl.com/ag64nh Oops! You mistakenly gave a privileged memo to the IRS or SEC: Is privilege lost for that memo? What do you do? http://tinyurl.com/c5r2ux The Vexing Problem [...]