http://www.abanow.org ABA Media Relations & Communication Services Fri, 17 May 2013 18:08:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2013 — Legal, housing and community development experts, including representatives from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will discuss how to rebuild and create stronger communities devastated by disaster at the American Bar Association 22nd Annual Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law ... http://www.abanow.org/2013/05/aba-housing-conference-will-address-how-to-rebuild-communities-affected-by-disaster/ CHICAGO, May 13, 2013 — The 23rd Annual National Institute on ERISA Litigation will address important cases involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, including the Supreme Court’s recent decision in U.S. Airways v. McCutchen. The program, sponsored by the ABA Joint Committee on Employment Benefits, will take place May ... http://www.abanow.org/2013/05/national-institute-on-erisa-litigation-tackles-issues-relating-to-health-care-law-lgbt-benefits/ CHICAGO, April 30, 2013 — Dennis W. Archer and Robert J. Grey Jr., the first and second African-American presidents of the American Bar Association, are the featured speakers at the Minority Counsel Program, an intensive three-day conference to promote diversity in the legal profession May 15 -17 at the Ritz-Carlton ... http://www.abanow.org/2013/04/abas-minority-counsel-program-celebrates-25th-anniversary-in-big-easy-offers-3-day-intensive-conference-for-minority-lawyers/ WASHINGTON, D.C., April 19, 2013 — Dr. David A. Wolf, a former NASA astronaut responsible for the construction of the International Space Station, will speak at the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry 2013 Annual Meeting on April 27 at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and Spa ... http://www.abanow.org/2013/04/retired-nasa-astronaut-to-discuss-the-future-of-construction-at-aba-conference/ CHICAGO, April 19, 2013 – Experts will offer insights on challenges facing legal education and possibilities for change at the April 24 meeting of the American Bar Association Task Force on the Future of Legal Education. The proceedings will be both live streamed and posted on the task force's website ... http://www.abanow.org/2013/04/aba-legal-education-task-force-to-host-web-conference/ WASHINGTON, D.C., April 18, 2013 — How can we protect the nation’s critical infrastructure from a major cyber-attack? Who regulates the wholesale electricity markets? Should the federal government allow tax credits for renewables? These questions and others will be the focus of the American Bar Association Section of Public ... http://www.abanow.org/2013/04/legal-experts-to-discuss-cybersecurity-and-critical-infrastructure-energy-traders-and-government-support-for-renewables-at-aba-meeting/ WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2013 —An American Bar Association meeting on April 18 in Washington, D.C., will explore how the legal profession should address religious inequality, intolerance and discrimination and examine whether young Americans who have grown up in a multicultural, social media-driven society define and experience these issues differently ... http://www.abanow.org/2013/04/aba-event-examines-how-young-people-view-religious-intolerance-and-what-legal-profession-can-do-to-address-it/ WASHINGTON, D.C., April 5, 2013 — The American Bar Association Sections of Antitrust Law and International Law have submitted comments (see link below) regarding the Mexican Competition Commission’s proposed regulation of the Federal Competition Law. These views are being presented only on behalf of the Section of Antitrust Law and International ... http://www.abanow.org/2013/04/aba-sections-of-antitrust-law-international-law-submit-comments-on-mexican-competition-commission%e2%80%99s-proposed-regulation-of-the-federal-competition-law/ WASHINGTON, D.C., April 4, 2013 — The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements has recently upgraded its Media Alerts Federal Courts of Appeals Project, which provides timely reporting on the first through 11th Circuit Courts of Appeals, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, and the ... http://www.abanow.org/2013/04/aba-media-alerts-provide-expert-analysis-of-circuit-court-cases/ CHICAGO, March 1, 2013 – In an amicus brief filed today, the American Bar Association is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the “serious obstacles” that Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act imposes on lawyers’ clients who are same-sex couples legally married under state law. The brief, ... http://www.abanow.org/2013/03/defense-of-marriage-act-provision-poses-serious-legal-obstacles-to-married-same-sex-clients-aba-brief-states/