The American Bar Association today announced the release of the final report of the ABA Task Force for American Democracy, a two-year, bipartisan effort to address the most pressing threats to the rul ...

Federal law requires that unaccompanied children be placed in removal proceedings in immigration court. The Homeland Security Act and Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) ...

The Supreme Court's decision in SFFA is a reminder for employers to review DEI programs and ensure they promote equal opportunity in every aspect of employment regardless of protected characteristics.

The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change from the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being was conceptualized and initiated by the ABA Commission on Lawyer ...

A proposed rule may threaten PSLF eligibility for many legal aid employers. So, the ABA is urging legal professionals to submit comments by Sept. 17 to help defend access to justice.

Better contract drafting leads to fewer disputes. Fewer disputes means happier clients. In this fifth edition, Kenneth A. Adams has updated and expanded his valuable guide by more than 70 pages of new ...

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 ...

The federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) is one of the best-known federal fraud and abuse statutes due largely to its wide-ranging effects on business relationships in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, ...

E-books are available in different digital formats; all require e-reader software. After you purchase an e-book, you will download the file to your device and use the ...

It is not uncommon among juvenile court proceedings to encounter the term “expungement,” or find an expungement order issued by the court. What does it mean? Here, Teaching Legal Docs will explore an ...

In complying with her Rule 1.1 obligations, a lawyer who engages lawyers or nonlawyers to provide outsourced legal or nonlegal services is required to comply with Rules 5.1 and 5.3. She should make ...