[1] A lawyer, as a member of the legal profession, is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice. [2] As ...

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This article describes all three levels of federal courts (District, Circuit, and Supreme), Congress and a bureau of the U. S. Department of Treasury frantically sought to determine the future and ...

The Section's Nominating Committee invites suggestions for at-large positions on the 2025-2026 Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. There are four of these positions to ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently finalized a rule that will subject the country’s most active digital wallets to ongoing supervision by the agency. While the CFPB will likely ...

The Junk Fees Rule does not prohibit any type or amount of fee or outlaw any specific pricing strategy. Hiding or misrepresenting a fee, however, would constitute an unfair or deceptive practice. FTC ...

In this week’s HLbytes Roundup, host Andy Demetriou discusses “FDA Publishes Draft Guidance on AI Use for Drug and Biological Product Submissions” submitted by ...

On January 24, the international legal community commemorates the Day of the Endangered Lawyer, (DEL) to raise awareness on the surge of attacks on human rights lawyers worldwide. Each year, one ...

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In recognition of the Day of the Endangered Lawyer, this teleconference reports on attacks on the judiciary, Bar and other human rights defenders in Pakistan, and offer suggestions on how the ABA and ...

Being a lawyer is a tough job. We’ve all heard the term “burnout”—maybe we even see it as just “something that happens occasionally,” given our jobs—but most of us aren’t familiar with what all this ...

In early 2008, the American Bar Association (ABA) launched an innovative pro bono immigration pilot project in San Diego, California pursuant to a seed grant from the ABA Enterprise Fund. The mission ...