Few things in life turn one’s world upside down like a disaster. In the immediate aftermath, first responders rush to provide food, water, and shelter to the affected community. Survivors will try ...

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 ...

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When the Super Bowl rumbled into town earlier this year, our city greeted it—in true San Francisco fashion—with a weeklong party. More than 800 SWAT deployments were conducted by 20 law enforcement ...

SHIP provides free, confidential counseling and assistance to help Medicare beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries better understand their Medicare benefits.

A lawyer shall act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client.

[1] A lawyer's legal skill and training, together with the relationship of trust and confidence between lawyer and client, create the possibility of overreaching when the lawyer participates in a ...

Dispute resolution is a term that refers to a number of processes that can be used to resolve a conflict, dispute or claim. Dispute resolution may also be referred to as alternative dispute resolution ...

An ABA-approved law school may grant a student up to 50 percent of the credit hours required for the J.D. degree through distance education courses (see Definition 7, and Standards 311, 105, and 511).

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, emerging democracies in Eastern and Central Europe began revising their constitutions and statutory laws to guarantee the rights ...

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