Free Legal Help - American Bar Association
Legal Aid. Federally funded legal services offices provide lawyers who are experts in helping low-income people with legal problems. Pro Bono. Pro bono programs match low-income clients with volunteer lawyers, who agree to take their cases for free.
ABA-Approved Law Schools with Acquiescence for Distance …
Additionally, a law school may allow a student to earn 50 percent or more of the credit hours required for the J.D. degree through Distance Education Courses without instituting a formal Distance Education Division after seeking acquiescence in a substantive change in accordance with Standard 105(a)(12)(ii).
Bar Exams - American Bar Association
The most common testing configuration consists of a two-day bar examination, one day of which is devoted to the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), a standardized 200-item test covering six areas (Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts). The second day of testing is typically comprised of locally crafted essays from a broader range of …
Understanding Stare Decisis - American Bar Association
Dec 16, 2022 · 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.
Approved Programs Directory - American Bar Association
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Lawyer Licensing - American Bar Association
Lawyers are licensed by a state agency in each state. That agency can help you to find out if a person has a law license and is permitted to practice in a particular state.
Dispute Resolution Overview - American Bar Association
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, appropriate dispute resolution, or ADR for short. Dispute resolution processes are alternatives to ...
Rule 1.7 Conflict of Interest: Current Clients - Comment
Loyalty and independent judgment are essential elements in the lawyer's relationship to a client. Concurrent conflicts of interest can arise from the lawyer's responsibilities to another client, a former client or a third person or from the lawyer's own interests.
Prosecution Function - American Bar Association
Part I: General Standards Standard 3-1.1 The Scope and Function of These Standards (a) As used in these standards, “prosecutor” means any attorney, regardless of agency, title, or full or part-time assignment, who acts as an attorney to investigate or prosecute criminal cases or who provides legal advice regarding a criminal matter to government lawyers, agents, or offices …
Rule 3.4: Fairness to Opposing Party & Counsel - American Bar …
Advocate | A lawyer shall not: (a) unlawfully obstruct another party' s access to evidence or unlawfully alter, destroy or conceal a document or other material having potential evidentiary value. A lawyer shall not counsel or assist another person to do any such act...