American Bar Association
The ABA is the largest voluntary association of lawyers in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around …
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 subject matters.
CLE Marketplace - American Bar Association
Explore the CLE Marketplace for all content produced by the ABA and enjoy unparalleled learning experiences, with CLE credit, on timely topics with leading speakers both online and in person.
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.
Approved Programs Directory - American Bar Association
Enter Search for Approved Paralegal Programs Directory. It's time to renew your membership and keep access to free CLE, valuable publications and more.
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.
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.
Find Legal Help - American Bar Association
About FindLegalHelp.org. Findlegalhelp.org is provided as a public service by the American Bar Association's Legal Services Division. While the information on this site is about legal issues, it is not legal advice or legal representation.
Rule 1.8: Current Clients: Specific Rules - American Bar Association
(a) A lawyer shall not enter into a business transaction with a client or knowingly acquire an ownership, possessory, security or other pecuniary interest adverse to a client unless: (1) the transaction and terms on which the lawyer acquires the interest are fair and reasonable to the client and are ...
Model Business Corporation Act Resource Center - American Bar …
Model Nonprofit Corporation Act. The new fourth edition of the Model Nonprofit Corporation Act (“MNCA”), adopted by the Committee on Nonprofit Organizations of the Business Law Section, is based in large measure on the MBCA.. The Fourth Edition includes the new and revised provisions of the 2016 Revision of the MBCA and the changes to the MBCA since the 2016 Revision, with some ...