CHICAGO, April 2, 2026 — The American Bar Association has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in support of law firms that successfully challenged ...

CHICAGO, March 11, 2026 — The pass rate for first-time takers who sat for the bar exam rose by more than a percentage point in 2025 over 2024, according to new data from the managing director’s office ...

CHICAGO, Dec. 15, 2025 — The American Bar Association’s Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence released its final report recently. The AI Task Force “Year 2 Report on the Impact of AI on the ...

CHICAGO, Dec. 15, 2025 – Information about fall 2025 enrollment, scholarships and other matters reported by Council-approved law schools to the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and ...

CHICAGO, Dec. 8, 2025 — The number of lawyers in the United States increased significantly this year for the first time since 2020, rising from 1.35 million in 2024 to 1.37 million this year, ...

In this Rapid Response episode, Stacy Brustin, Member of the ABA Commission on Immigration & Director of the Immigration Law & Policy Initiative at The Catholic University of America, and Luvia ...

On October 31, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education published its final regulation revising the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, allowing the Secretary to disqualify employers from ...

Recent events, including an executive order on flag burning and comments and actions from elected and appointed officials with respect to comic material on broadcast television, have raised the ...

CHICAGO, Sept. 10, 2025 —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 ...

On July 24, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” (“the Order”). Although civil commitment traditionally falls within the ...

CHICAGO, June 16, 2025 — The American Bar Association today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, more than two dozen federal departments and agencies, and the heads of those departments and ...

Employment for graduates of ABA-approved law schools reached a record high, according to data for the graduating law class of 2024 made public by the American Bar Association Section of Legal ...