‘Most lawyers would be against this,’ said Laurel Bellows, president-elect of the American Bar Association. ‘If you are a strict constructionalist — which apparently the governor isn’t, because he’s looking to amend the Constitution — you would have respect for the wisdom of the Framers.’

If the case is not handled by a professional with appropriate legal training, a person can suffer serious long-term consequences affecting loved ones or financial security. – William T. ‘Bill’ Robinson III, president of the American Bar Association (ABA), in a letter to the editor of the New York Times.

It’s not every day that the American Bar Association website offers the world a dish of such delicious implications as this, served on a veritable silver platter, but PJM LifeStyle readers, today is our lucky day.  The eye-catching headline reads ‘Massage Parlor Mistrial Declared After Masseuse Recognizes Defense Lawyer as Client.’

Tennessee already spends less per capita on indigent defense services than the national average, according to a 2006 American Bar Association study and population estimates.

The University of La Verne College of Law lost its provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association in June, but its graduates will still be allowed to sit for the California bar examination. The Committee of Bar Examiners for the State Bar of California on Aug. 26 granted accreditation to La Verne.

But after a 2010 commission studied the economy’s impact on legal employment, and regulators asked questions, the American Bar Association took a major step last month toward requiring law schools to be more specific about the actual employment outlook of their graduates.

The initial reform push began with former SEC Investment Management Director Andrew ‘Buddy’ Donohue, who several years ago began questioning whether federal laws governing mutual funds and exchange-traded funds needed to be modernized. He asked the American Bar Association to study the issue.

The rule – Rule 5.4 of the American Bar Association, on which New York’s court rule is based — is designed to insulate attorneys and their firms from the influence of non-lawyer investors who are untrained in legal ethics, but is out of touch with reality, Jacoby & Meyers claimed in the memorandum, submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District.

The hotline is for flood victims in those counties that have received a federal disaster declaration for individual assistance… The hotline is operated by Volunteer Lawyers of Nebraska through the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association.

Under federal law, VSED is legal in every state, said Charles Sabatino, who directs the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging.

Free speech may not be the only legal issue. The American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law filed comments expressing concern if companies all agree not to advertise foods that don’t pass nutritional muster.

The University of Kentucky College of Law and the Kentucky Law Journal will hold a symposium on Court Funding on Sept. 23-24, 2011 in Lexington, KY. The symposium will celebrate the KLJ’s 100th volume and our distinguished alumnus, Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson, III, and his ascension to the presidency of the American Bar Association.