Few things in life turn one’s world upside down like a disaster. In the immediate aftermath, first responders rush to provide food, water, and shelter to the affected community. Survivors will try ...

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The world's leading community of competition, consumer protection, and data privacy professionals. This plan is the Antitrust Section’s strategic attempt to embrace our diversity and advance our goal ...

The topic of bullying is personal to Erika Harold, Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism (“the Commission”). “I experienced pervasive racial and sexual ...

In representing a client, a lawyer shall not communicate about the subject of the representation with a person the lawyer knows to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has ...

A lawyer shall act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client.

A-B trust planning – A common arrangement used in a will when a married testator has an estate with a value that exceeds his or her remaining estate tax exemption amount. A testator creates at the ...

What is commercial financing in general? Financing a property is the standard method by which individuals and businesses can purchase residential and commercial real estate without the need to pay the ...

In August 1997, the ABA House of Delegates approved these “black letter” standards that have been published with commentary in ABA Standards for Criminal Justice ...

Brings together litigators who primarily practice construction law and provides members with content, benefits, and mentoring that support professional growth and development at every stage of their ...

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 ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, emerging democracies in Eastern and Central Europe began revising their constitutions and statutory laws to guarantee the rights ...