The American Bar Association today reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed against the association by the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER) in April 2025 over the ABA’s Legal Opportu ...

(a) A lawyer shall not reveal information relating to the representation of a client unless the client gives informed consent, the disclosure is impliedly authorized in order to carry out the ...

Deals with legal opinion practice. The Committee seeks to foster national standards for legal opinions in business transactions through discussions, programs and reports on issues relevant to opinion ...

In observance of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the ABA Section of Taxation will host a series of panels and special events around the theme “Taxes, The Declaration of Indep ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2025 — The American Bar Association Legal Technology Resource Center has released its 2024 Legal Technology Survey Report, which provides an in-depth analysis of technology ...

Stare Decisis—a Latin term that means “let the decision stand” or “to stand by things decided”—is a foundational concept in the American legal system. To put it simply, stare decisis holds that courts ...

Author, blogger, and 3x general counsel Sterling Miller takes on the challenge facing legal departments today--how to respond when the business asks the department to show its value. In clear, ...

This book is a primer on trauma-informed lawyering, and a starting point for resilience and even healing. Trauma-Informed Law provides information and analysis from experts in law, psychology, and ...

This is a must-have resource for every M&A practitioner. It addresses the steps for ?doing the deal? in an M&A transaction. Transactions covered include, mergers, asset sales, stock sales, and share ...

How will the law change to accommodate the role of artificial intelligence in society and how much of that change has occurred already? When machines make their own decisions with financial impact, ...

Most contracts allow the owner to unilaterally change the work without agreement from the contractor through a construction change directive. The cardinal change doctrine can be invoked if the ...