SERVE MEMBERS

  1. Membership dues rates are explored; waiver approved for significant pro bono work 
  2. ABA Center provides ethics outreach and service to ABA members; launches new monthly column
  3. Two new handbooks guide lawyers and judges through the complexities of capacity assessment of older adults with impaired capacity
  4. Legal Technology Resource Center moves popular publication to RSS; continues mission of providing tech assistance to members
  5. Tax Section active members participate in developing section comments to IRS on issues involving the tax code
  6. Women in Law Leadership Academy empowers new women lawyers
  7. Preview provides expert Supreme Court analysis; companion site hosts merit briefs
  8. Forum on Communications Law presents programs for communications bar 
  9. Class action litigation program draws national attention.
  10. GP/Solo Division creates new teleconference series, Practice Builders, for division members
  11. Leadership trip to South America sponsored by International Law Section
  12. Dispute Resolution Section develops new training opportunities, improves member outreach
  13. Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division launches new Web-based resource for members
  14. New course offered to help solo and small firm lawyers provide targeted services to elders
  15. ABA responds to Hurricane Katrina
  16. ABA launches new electronic newsletter to keep members in-the-know about its work on their behalf

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