News Director Sally Mauk talks with President of the American Bar Association, Bill Robinson, about some of the challenges facing the legal profession.

The American Bar Association declared in a 1982 ethics opinion that ‘there is an inherent conflict between zealously representing a client and conducting oneself in a manner calculated to win the approval and favor’ of the military supervising officer.

It will also review a 2007 report released by the American Bar Association that called for a moratorium while problems the report said it had identified were examined.

Also appeared in The Houston Chronicle.

The [SEC] Concept Release goes on to ask about possible alternative approaches, including those used by foreign regulators and those suggested by the American Bar Association Section of Business Law in the July 6, 2010 report of its Task Force on Investment Company Use of Derivatives and Leverage.

An article from the Birmingham News this morning says ‘The American Bar Association, in a newly adopted policy, is urging states to set rules for judges to step down from cases involving campaign contributors, a sign of growing national anxiety over the influence of political money in the judicial system.’

The American Bar Association recently enacted a policy that calls for states to adopt strict rules requiring judges to step down when a case before them involves a person or group who contributed to the judge’s campaign.

If there is reasonable doubt that a judge can be impartial, he or she should step aside. This summer, the American Bar Association urged states to update their recusal rules, specifically to address campaign benefactors.

The American Bar Association has now opined that lawyers should ‘warn the client about the risk of sending or receiving electronic communications using a computer or other device, or e-mail account, where there is a significant risk that a third party may gain access.’

A previously unnamed building at UF’s Levin College of Law will be named for alumnus Stephen Zack at a ceremony Monday. … Zack was given the UF Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2010 and is a past president of The Florida Bar and the American Bar Association.

ABA President William Robinson will be part of an expanded Bellwood Memorial Lecture program with presentations in both cities as the University of Idaho extends its legal education efforts in Boise.

American Bar Association President Bill Robinson visited Chattanooga on Thursday and met with the Times Free Press editorial board. He answered questions and shared some of the association’s policies on problems the courts and attorneys face nationwide.

The American Bar Association has reviewed [Judge Bernice Donald’s] credentials and said she is either qualified or well qualified.