http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/20/aba-american-law-institute-divorce-amicably-on-cle/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/20/aba-american-law-institute-divorce-amicably-on-cle/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:33:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131748 The National Law Journal: The longtime partnership between the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association to provide continuing legal education programs has ended. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/20/aba-american-law-institute-divorce-amicably-on-cle/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/aba-writes-guide-to-end-of-life-planning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/aba-writes-guide-to-end-of-life-planning/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:28:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129747 AdvisorOne.com: The American Bar Association Senior Lawyers Division released a book last week intended to help attorneys, their clients and individuals interested in organizing their lives with these complicated matters. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/aba-writes-guide-to-end-of-life-planning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/03/spurned-by-the-aba-law-school-strikes-back-with-antitrust-suit/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/03/spurned-by-the-aba-law-school-strikes-back-with-antitrust-suit/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:50:36 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121849 The National Law Journal: Two days after receiving word that the American Bar Association had denied it provisional accreditation, the Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law on Dec. 22 filed a federal lawsuit against the organization. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/03/spurned-by-the-aba-law-school-strikes-back-with-antitrust-suit/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/20/for-law-schools-a-price-to-play-the-a-b-a-%e2%80%99s-way/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/20/for-law-schools-a-price-to-play-the-a-b-a-%e2%80%99s-way/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:55:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121315 NYTimes.com: THE library at the Duncan School of Law may look like nothing more than 4,000 hardbacks in a medium-size room, but it is actually a high-tech experiment in cost containment. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/20/for-law-schools-a-price-to-play-the-a-b-a-%e2%80%99s-way/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/20/httpvolokh-com20111219the-new-york-times-on-aba-accreditation-of-law-schools/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/20/httpvolokh-com20111219the-new-york-times-on-aba-accreditation-of-law-schools/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:51:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121313 Volokh Conspiracy: David Segal’s recent New York Times article on ABA accreditation of law schools makes the important point that the ABA uses the accreditation process to reduce competition for its members by artificially reducing the number of law schools, and thereby eliminating potential competitors for its members. This interacts with laws that require consumers to rely on lawyers even for relatively simple tasks that in many other countries are performed by paralegals and the like. The end result makes even basic legal services extremely expensive, especially for the poor and the lower middle class: ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/20/httpvolokh-com20111219the-new-york-times-on-aba-accreditation-of-law-schools/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/12/aba-gives-ground-on-law-schools-graduate-jobs-data-reporting/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/12/aba-gives-ground-on-law-schools-graduate-jobs-data-reporting/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:15:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=120647 Legal Times: The American Bar Association is changing the way it collects graduate employment information from law schools. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/12/aba-gives-ground-on-law-schools-graduate-jobs-data-reporting/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/15/congress-gives-law-schools-the-stink-eye/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/15/congress-gives-law-schools-the-stink-eye/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:02:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118640 WSJ: Our colleague Ashby Jones reports that U.S. Senate staff members are gathering a trove of information about legal education in the U.S., including figures on law school job placement and student-loan debt, that could serve as a backdrop to congressional hearings on the issue. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/15/congress-gives-law-schools-the-stink-eye/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/aba-goes-on-record-to-repeal-doma/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/aba-goes-on-record-to-repeal-doma/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:36:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118250 MinnLawyer Blog: The American Bar Association has gone on record in support of the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, the law that denies federal benefits for same sex couples married in states that allow for gay marriages. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/aba-goes-on-record-to-repeal-doma/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/07/why-law-schools-need-external-scrutiny/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/07/why-law-schools-need-external-scrutiny/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:30:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115766 Balkinization: Get ready law schools: A Senate hearing on the ABA regulation of law schools might be coming. That is the subtext of Senator Boxer's most recent letter to the ABA. It's overdue. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/07/why-law-schools-need-external-scrutiny/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/01/perry-has-plenty-of-ideas-on-supreme-court-including-term-limits/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/01/perry-has-plenty-of-ideas-on-supreme-court-including-term-limits/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:44:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=112470 McClatchy: Rick Perry, like other conservatives, has lots of complaints about the Supreme Court: The justices, he says, have meddled in social policy, stepped on state power and generally run amok . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/01/perry-has-plenty-of-ideas-on-supreme-court-including-term-limits/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/14/oetken-out-gay-nominee-unanimously-qualified-for-n-y-federal-judgeship-aba-panel-says/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/14/oetken-out-gay-nominee-unanimously-qualified-for-n-y-federal-judgeship-aba-panel-says/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:29:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=97944 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/14/oetken-out-gay-nominee-unanimously-qualified-for-n-y-federal-judgeship-aba-panel-says/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/14/aba-panel-considering-making-the-lsat-optional/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/14/aba-panel-considering-making-the-lsat-optional/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:49:56 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=91352 Law.com / National Law Journal: "The Law School Admissions Test is a rite of passage for aspiring lawyers, but could go from mandatory to voluntary under proposed changes to the American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/14/aba-panel-considering-making-the-lsat-optional/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/03/law-school-not-worthwhile-for-many-american-bar-association/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/03/law-school-not-worthwhile-for-many-american-bar-association/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:30:19 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=89399 PRlog: "The ABA has issued an analysis warning students that going to law school may not be worth it because the huge debt may not be recouped by high salaries, and that the 'high debt can limit career choices . . . or delay home ownership or marriage.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/03/law-school-not-worthwhile-for-many-american-bar-association/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/08/law-school-accreditation-process-is-grueling/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/08/law-school-accreditation-process-is-grueling/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:49:59 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=85436 News Journal: "The University of Delaware would face a rigorous process to establish its credentials in the legal community . . . To receive full accreditation, a school must comply with a list of 56 standards, Askew said." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/08/law-school-accreditation-process-is-grueling/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/19/on-law-schools-and-employment-data-is-the-aba-the-answer/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/19/on-law-schools-and-employment-data-is-the-aba-the-answer/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:36:00 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=77241 WSJ Law Blog: "The president of the American Bar Association, Steve Zack, told a gathering of law school deans and professors last week that the organization is considering requiring law schools to disclose cost and employment statistics to all accepted law school applicants." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/19/on-law-schools-and-employment-data-is-the-aba-the-answer/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/15/china-india-japan-grapple-with-the-quality-of-legal-education/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/15/china-india-japan-grapple-with-the-quality-of-legal-education/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:48:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=76781 National Law Journal: "Other countries face much larger problems when it comes to regulating the number of law students and quality of legal education. Legal educators from India, China, Japan and France spoke at Harvard Law School Friday during a panel discussion about the challenges they face in producing an appropriate number of good lawyers." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/15/china-india-japan-grapple-with-the-quality-of-legal-education/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/01/dissent-breaks-out-over-aba-fees-for-ethics-opinions/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/01/dissent-breaks-out-over-aba-fees-for-ethics-opinions/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:51:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=74491 National Law Journal (Law.com): "The American Bar Association is under fire from attorneys who argue that the organization should stop charging fees for access to its ethics opinions." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/01/dissent-breaks-out-over-aba-fees-for-ethics-opinions/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/28/controversy-over-aba-positions-on-marriage-and-immigration/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/28/controversy-over-aba-positions-on-marriage-and-immigration/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:25:25 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=74038 Politico: "The American Bar Association, which was dogged for decades by criticism over a perceived liberal bent, is risking reigniting that debate by taking bold stands on a pair of hot-button social issues . . . Critics contend that the back-to-back moves on the polarizing issues of gay marriage and immigration show that the ABA is again sliding to the left politically and putting its reputation at risk." Via FedSocBlog. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/28/controversy-over-aba-positions-on-marriage-and-immigration/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/10/george-soros-vs-judicial-elections-stripping-people-of-power-giving-lawyers-control-of-courts/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/10/george-soros-vs-judicial-elections-stripping-people-of-power-giving-lawyers-control-of-courts/#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:03:27 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/10/george-soros-vs-judicial-elections-stripping-people-of-power-giving-lawyers-control-of-courts/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/10/george-soros-vs-judicial-elections-stripping-people-of-power-giving-lawyers-control-of-courts/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/20/aba-advocates-federal-legalization-of-homosexual-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/20/aba-advocates-federal-legalization-of-homosexual-marriage/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:28:14 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=69554 The New American: "With the timing of the ABA action thus closely coinciding with the action of Judge Walker, conservative attorneys, as well as other constitutionalists, are left with few alternatives but to continue the Proposition 8 fight all the way to the Supreme Court . . . 'The fact that ADF and other lawyers disagree with ABA on a number of controversial issues demonstrates the gross inaccuracy of ABA’s claim that it speaks for the U.S. legal profession,' remarked ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Doug Napier]." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/20/aba-advocates-federal-legalization-of-homosexual-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/american-bar-association-adopts-gay-marriage-resolution/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/american-bar-association-adopts-gay-marriage-resolution/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:41:19 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68812 The Christian Post: "Ahead of the resolution’s passage, the Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund stressed that the ABA does not speak for all U.S. lawyers and noted how three-quarters of American lawyers do not belong to the ABA. 'The fact that ADF and other lawyers disagree with ABA on a number of controversial issues demonstrates the gross inaccuracy of ABA’s claim that it speaks for the U.S. legal profession,' remarked ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Doug Napier], who resigned from the ABA because of its stance on controversial political issues." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/american-bar-association-adopts-gay-marriage-resolution/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/aba-endorses-same-sex-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/aba-endorses-same-sex-marriage/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:46:21 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68858 JURIST: "In anticipation of the ABA's decision, the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and the National Lawyers Association (NLA) claimed that the resolution disproved the ABA's claims that it speaks for the US legal profession. Additionally, they called on the ABA to 'refrain from taking political positions'. The organization went on to compare Tuesday's decision to the ABA's 1992 decision to endorse abortion rights, causing a 'significant exodus of lawyers leaving the ABA in protest.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/aba-endorses-same-sex-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/christian-legal-group-defies-aba-on-gay-marriage-2/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/christian-legal-group-defies-aba-on-gay-marriage-2/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:45:30 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68859 Edge: "'The fact that ADF and other lawyers disagree with ABA on a number of controversial issues demonstrates the gross inaccuracy of ABA’s claim that it speaks for the U.S. legal profession,' said ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Doug Napier], who has resigned from the ABA." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/christian-legal-group-defies-aba-on-gay-marriage-2/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/robinson-becomes-american-bar-association-president-elect/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/robinson-becomes-american-bar-association-president-elect/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:06:39 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/robinson-becomes-american-bar-association-president-elect/ Business First: "William T. 'Bill' Robinson III, the member-in-charge in the Florence, Ky., office of Frost Brown Todd LLC law firm, has been elected president-elect of the American Bar Association." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/robinson-becomes-american-bar-association-president-elect/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/david-boies-urges-aba-members-%e2%80%98bring-rule-of-law-to-full-fruition%e2%80%99-in-us-to-meet-founders%e2%80%99-goals/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/david-boies-urges-aba-members-%e2%80%98bring-rule-of-law-to-full-fruition%e2%80%99-in-us-to-meet-founders%e2%80%99-goals/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:07:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/david-boies-urges-aba-members-%e2%80%98bring-rule-of-law-to-full-fruition%e2%80%99-in-us-to-meet-founders%e2%80%99-goals/ ABA: "David Boies challenged America’s lawyers to 'bring the rule of law to its full fruition here in this country … to fulfill the goals and lofty rhetoric of our founding fathers,' as the keynote speaker at the Opening Assembly of the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco . . . All lawyers must stand up for the independence of judges, resisting threats to their safety when they make unpopular decisions, said Boies, noting that there already have been threats to harm the judge who ruled in the Proposition 8 litigation." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/david-boies-urges-aba-members-%e2%80%98bring-rule-of-law-to-full-fruition%e2%80%99-in-us-to-meet-founders%e2%80%99-goals/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-receives-highest-aba-honor/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-receives-highest-aba-honor/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:03:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-receives-highest-aba-honor/ ABA: "During Monday’s meeting of the policy-making House of Delegates, the association honored Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with its highest recognition, the ABA Medal." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/10/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-receives-highest-aba-honor/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/09/david-boies-remarks-at-the-abas-annual-meeting-in-san-francisco-prop-8-ruling/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/09/david-boies-remarks-at-the-abas-annual-meeting-in-san-francisco-prop-8-ruling/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:56:00 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68069 Barwatch Bulletin for Sunday, August 8, 2010: "David Boies, who served as lead counsel for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election challenge, delivered the keynote address at the Opening Assembly on Saturday. Boies is currently serving on the legal team challenging Proposition 8 in California. He discussed the case in his remarks, which addressed challenges to the rule of law . . . '[T]here is only one area in our society in which there continues to be not merely social discrimination, but state-sponsored, state-enforced discrimination against a group of our citizens. And last Wednesday, the federal district court here in the northern district of California took an important step in eliminating that last official discrimination against our gay and lesbian citizens.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/09/david-boies-remarks-at-the-abas-annual-meeting-in-san-francisco-prop-8-ruling/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/09/shaping-the-law-a-solicitors-general-roundtable/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/09/shaping-the-law-a-solicitors-general-roundtable/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:01:14 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68013 American Bar Association: Moderator: Marcia Coyle, Chief Washington Correspondent, National Law Journal | Speakers: Edwin Kneedler, Acting U.S. Solicitor General 2009; Gregory Garre, U.S. Solicitor General 2008-2009; Drew Days III, U.S. Solicitor General 1993-1996; Kenneth Starr, U.S. Solicitor General 1989-1993; Charles Fried, U.S. Solicitor General 1985-1989 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/09/shaping-the-law-a-solicitors-general-roundtable/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/06/aba-does-not-speak-for-all-lawyers-on-same-sex-marriage-says-adf/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/06/aba-does-not-speak-for-all-lawyers-on-same-sex-marriage-says-adf/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:54:36 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=67744 The Christian Post: "'The fact that ADF and other lawyers disagree with ABA on a number of controversial issues demonstrates the gross inaccuracy of ABA’s claim that it speaks for the U.S. legal profession,' remarked ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Doug Napier], who resigned from the ABA because of its stance on controversial political issues." | ADF News Release ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/06/aba-does-not-speak-for-all-lawyers-on-same-sex-marriage-says-adf/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/04/adf-american-bar-association-can%e2%80%99t-speak-for-all-american-lawyers-on-same-sex-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/04/adf-american-bar-association-can%e2%80%99t-speak-for-all-american-lawyers-on-same-sex-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:20:02 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/04/adf-american-bar-association-can%e2%80%99t-speak-for-all-american-lawyers-on-same-sex-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/04/adf-american-bar-association-can%e2%80%99t-speak-for-all-american-lawyers-on-same-sex-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/02/aba-delegates-to-weigh-judicial-finance-training-same-sex-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/02/aba-delegates-to-weigh-judicial-finance-training-same-sex-marriage/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:48:03 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=67070 Law.com: "Also at the ABA conference this week, delegates will consider a same-sex marriage proposal that would urge state-level governments to eliminate all legal barriers to civil marriage between two persons of the same sex and oppose a federal constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/02/aba-delegates-to-weigh-judicial-finance-training-same-sex-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/24/aba-gives-kagan-highest-rating-for-judicial-nominees/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/24/aba-gives-kagan-highest-rating-for-judicial-nominees/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:48:32 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=64037 Boston Globe | Political Intelligence: "The 15-member Standing Committee of the American Bar Association has rated Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan 'well-qualified' by a unanimous vote, with one abstention, according to the ABA. It is the association's highest rating for judicial nominees." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/24/aba-gives-kagan-highest-rating-for-judicial-nominees/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/15/time-to-lift-monopolistic-barriers-to-entering-the-legal-profession/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/15/time-to-lift-monopolistic-barriers-to-entering-the-legal-profession/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:38:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/15/time-to-lift-monopolistic-barriers-to-entering-the-legal-profession/ National Review Phi Beta Cons Blog: "Prof. Brian Tamanaha points out here that for many law students, the costs are far, far out of line with the prospective benefits of getting into the legal profession." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/15/time-to-lift-monopolistic-barriers-to-entering-the-legal-profession/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/aba-in-midst-of-kagan-evaluation/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/aba-in-midst-of-kagan-evaluation/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:47:25 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/aba-in-midst-of-kagan-evaluation/ The Blog of LegalTimes: "The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary is well into its in-depth investigation into the record of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, which will be presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee for its hearing later this month." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/aba-in-midst-of-kagan-evaluation/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/30/religious-land-use-attorney-dan-dalton-to-moderate-and-present-at-aba-conference-on-rluipa-law/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/30/religious-land-use-attorney-dan-dalton-to-moderate-and-present-at-aba-conference-on-rluipa-law/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:17:56 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/30/religious-land-use-attorney-dan-dalton-to-moderate-and-present-at-aba-conference-on-rluipa-law/ Christian Newswire: "Attorney Daniel P. Dalton of Tomkiw Dalton, plc in Royal Oak, Mich. will be a featured speaker at the 2010 American Bar Association spring meeting, which will be held in Miami from April 29 to May 2. Dalton will share his expertise in the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) on Friday, April 30." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/30/religious-land-use-attorney-dan-dalton-to-moderate-and-present-at-aba-conference-on-rluipa-law/feed/ 0