Attorney-client privilege, the lawyer’s ethical duty of confidentiality and the U.S. Constitution’s right to the effective assistance of counsel are bedrock legal principles that encourage clients to ...

ABA Formal Opinion 525 urges lawyers to protect client autonomy, avoid guardianship conflicts and carefully assess decision-making limitations.

On October 15, 2025, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 518 titled “A Lawyer’s Duties to Avoid Misleading Communications When Acting as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American law schools may eliminate the longstanding DEI requirement for law schools. “The ABA’s diversity and inclusion standards ...

As ABA Opinion 518 is the first effort by the organization to apply various professional responsibility provisions to lawyers who serve as mediators, FedArb, an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) ...

PROVIDENCE, RI — Mediators in Rhode Island and Massachusetts say they already understand much of what a new American Bar Association formal opinion says about their duties under the relevant Rules of ...