The American Bar Association and other groups have pressured law schools into providing more accurate statistical reports on how students fare after graduation.

There were 44,258 graduates in 2010, according to the American Bar Association, which adds to an influx of graduates into the legal field.

A free guide from the American Bar Association, available in both English and Spanish at americanbar.org, lets you plan for health care power of attorney.

In a joint letter [to IMF’s director] dated December 21st, Georges-Albert Dal, president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe and Bill Robinson III, president of the American Bar Association, expressed concern over the proposed Legal Services Regulation Bill in Ireland and proposed reforms in Greece and Portugal.

American Bar Association President William T. Robinson III of Erlanger said the cuts to the LSC, recently adopted by Congress, are nothing less than devastating. “They come at a time when families and citizens in our community are under severe economic stress and need the assistance of lawyers more than ever,” said Robinson, who is also the member-in-charge of the Northern Kentucky offices of Frost Brown Todd.

Speaking at a seminar on Saturday held to discuss a report that examined 100 legal cases audited by the Muslim Attorney Centre Foundation and the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative, experts said the entire system needed to be seriously examined.

The Pennsylvania State Senate will create a task force and advisory committee to study the capital punishment system. In 2007, an American Bar Association panel found the system flawed, with insufficient safeguards to protect the innocent or to avoid racial and economic bias.

The American Bar Association released a report this month calling Kentucky’s Racial Justice Act ineffective.

A New York Times article “places the responsibility for needless tuition increases on the American Bar Association’s (ABA) accreditation regime.”

A recent article’s “criticism of the [ABA] accreditation system seems misguided.”

A hearing on how much the state of Utah will pay public defenders representing a local murder suspect hinges on a change between flat-fee to per-hour payment. The defense attorney said that the American Bar Association advocates for no cap on indigent defense funds in capital murder cases.

An article on Gingrich’s potential lobbying activities, such as providing ‘strategic advice’ quotes a private-practice attorney who served on an American Bar Association task force that recommended changes to federal lobbying laws to improve disclosure and reduce conflicts of interest. “One of its recommendations was that people who give strategic advice disclose their work under a new category of “lobbying support.”