The American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession has selected five professionals to present with the 2022 ABA Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award. Three of the…
Anthony C. Infanti, Pennsylvania Life Fellow, Releases New Book About Tax Policy and Legal Imagination
Pennsylvania Life Fellow and University of Pittsburgh Law Professor Anthony C. Infanti released a new book, Tax and Time: On the Use and Misuse of Legal Imagination, through NYU Press in…
Sahar Aziz, Texas Life Fellow, Interviewed about MENA Identity and the U.S. Census for NPR
Rutgers Law Professor and Texas Life Fellow Sahar Aziz has offered her insights to an NPR article about Middle Eastern and North African erasure by the federal government, which requires…
Lucian T. Pera, Tennessee Life Fellow, Receives 2022 Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award
Tennessee Life Fellow and Adams and Reese partner Lucian T. Pera will be presented with the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s 2022 Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award at a June…
William C. Martucci, Life Fellow, Selected as KCMBA’s 2022-2023 President
ABF Life Fellow and Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP partner Bill Martucci has been elected to the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s 2022-2023 presidency. Mr. Martucci will bring to the role…
Loren L. Pierce, New Jersey Fellow, Appointed to New Jersey State Bar Foundation Board of Trustees
New Jersey Fellow and Bressler, Amery & Ross Business and Commercial Litigation Principal Loren L. Pierce has been selected as a new board member for the New Jersey State Bar…
Nine ABF Fellows Inducted into Lawdragon 2022 Class Hall of Fame
Placement on any of Lawdragon’s top 500 leading lawyer lists is a milestone for successful and influential attorneys around the globe, which makes selection for their Hall of Fame an…
Mary L. Smith, Illinois Patron Fellow, Becomes the ABA’s First Native American Woman President-Elect Nominee
Illinois Patron Fellow Mary L. Smith has become the first Native American woman selected as the ABA President-Elect nominee. Smith, who is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, was…
Amir Ali, District of Columbia Fellow, Promoted to MacArthur Justice Center Executive Director
Civil rights litigator and District of Columbia Fellow Amir Ali has been selected as the new Executive Director for the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center. Ali previously directed the…
Professor Tiffany Williams Brewer, New Jersey Fellow, Becomes First African American Woman to Chair the NJ State Commission of Investigation
New Jersey professor, nonprofit founder, and Fellow Tiffany Williams Brewer has recently been appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to become the State Commission of Investigation’s first African American woman Chair.…
ABF Launches Inaugural Hubbard Conference on Law and Education and Presents the Lifetime Achievement Award to Former Secretary Dick Riley
On Friday, February 25, the American Bar Foundation (ABF) will co-host the inaugural William Hubbard Conference on Law & Education in partnership with the University of South Carolina School of Law. This…
Hon. Vanessa Ruiz to Receive the 2022 ABF Fellows Outstanding Service Award
The Honorable Vanessa Ruiz, Senior Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, will receive the 2022 Outstanding Service Award from the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (ABF).…