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Bondi Tells American Bar Association DOJ Will No Longer Comply With Their Ratings for Judicial Nominees

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 30, 2025 9 Comments

"while the ABA is free to comment on judicial nominations along with other activist organizations, there is no justification for treating the ABA differently from such other activist organizations"...

Trump Targets American Bar Association Accreditation Power – Something I’ve Advocated For Years

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 24, 2025 28 Comments

I've been arguing to strip the ABA of its near-monopoly accrediting power since 2022. I'm proud that I was against the ABA before it was cool to be against the ABA....

Bondi Warns American Bar Association To ‘Immediately’ Abandon Diversity Mandates

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 05, 2025 2 Comments

"that policy must be repealed immediately"...

American Bar Association Temporarily Suspends DEI Enforcement

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 23, 2025 2 Comments

How much do you want to bet it will fight to keep DEI?...

Equal Protection Project Calls On American Bar Association To Fully Comply With SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling

Posted by James Nault on October 01, 2024 10 Comments

Comments on ABA's Proposed Revision to Law School Standard 206...

ABA Shelves Update to Expanded Law School Diversity Policy for Now

Posted by James Nault on February 28, 2024 9 Comments

American Bar Association not ready to make changes to law school accreditation standards for diversity in light of SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case...

Can the American Bar Association Save Free Speech at Law Schools?

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 18, 2024 6 Comments

"would require law schools to adopt policies protecting the free-speech rights of faculty, staff, and students"...

American Bar Association Walks Back Plan to Drop LSAT Requirement

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 13, 2023 4 Comments

"The LSAT rule has been a source of heated debate for years, but the latest push to abolish it began in early 2022."...

American Bar Association: First-Time Bar Pass Rate for Black Candidates in 2022 Was Below 58%

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 14, 2023 60 Comments

"We know that education was significantly disrupted by the pandemic, and that the effects of the pandemic were significantly worse for Black Americans and other historically marginalized communities"...

Distinguished Law Faculty Call on ABA to Reconsider Resolution Defining Antisemitism It Pulled Under Activist Pressure

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 20, 2023 24 Comments

Law professors call the widely respected IHRA definition deleted by the ABA "an invaluable educational tool for understanding how Jews experience antisemitism today" ...

American Bar Association Reviving Effort to Eliminate LSAT Requirement

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 19, 2023 6 Comments

"It first attempted to get rid of the admission test rule in 2018 but backed off when it became clear that the House of Delegates would not go along with the plan."...

Left-wing Activists Pressure American Bar Association Not To Adopt Widely-Accepted IHRA Definition of Antisemitism

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 29, 2023 11 Comments

LIF finds itself in the unusual position of complimenting the ABA for its resolution; will ABA cave the way Harvard Dean Elmendorf did?...

“American Bar Association, in its role as an accreditor, should not be partisan in [the current culture] war”

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 22, 2023 10 Comments

I'm quoted in an article in The Epoch Times on today’s legal education culture war: “[ABA] decisions should be based solely on academic criteria and how we best train lawyers, not how we best train lawyers who follow a particular ideology.”...

American Bar Association Flunks Hofstra Law School For Insufficient Diversity

Posted by Johanna Markind on December 18, 2022 14 Comments

There’s no indication so far that Hofstra did anything wrong, besides hiring too few non-white people and too few female adjunct faculty....

Legal Insurrection Foundation Files Brief Opposing Pennsylvania Attempt To Punish Lawyer Speech It Deems “Discriminatory” or “Harassing”

Posted by Johanna Markind on October 28, 2022 6 Comments

PA’s Disciplinary Board appealed to Third Circuit after district court enjoined Rule 8.4(g) as an unconstitutional encroachment on free speech....

American Bar Association Files Brief Supporting Disciplining Lawyers Who Offend Protected Groups

Posted by Johanna Markind on September 29, 2022 27 Comments

ABA files amicus brief in pending case testing legality of a Pennsylvania professional conduct rule muzzling lawyers’ supposedly offensive speech, clearly intended to mandate adherence to leftist race and other politics....

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