LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 5, 2024 ? The American Bar Association House of Delegates (HOD) approved new policy against laws that limit teaching about race or gender during a one-day meeting today that concluded the 2024 Midyear Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky.

CHICAGO, Jan. 17, 2024 - Legal measures to achieve a more equitable U.S. justice system, celebrations of champions of diversity and hot-button topics such as qualified immunity and gun control are chief among legal concerns that will be explored at the 2024 American Bar Association Midyear Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, Feb. 1-5.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2022 - The American Bar Association today announced its collaboration with the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals (ALFDP) to bolster data gathered through ABA's Model Diversity Survey to assess diversity, equity and inclusion among law firms.

CHICAGO, Aug. 9, 2022 - The American Bar Association's policymaking body, the House of Delegates (HOD), adopted a series of resolutions during its two-day meeting Aug. 8-9 that seeks to expand protections for individuals and entities involved in the discussion and delivery of reproductive rights as well as protect other privacy rights.

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2022 - The American Bar Association opposes government attempts to discriminate against transgender and non-binary people based on gender identity. We also oppose creating barriers to obtaining or providing medical care to affirm an individual's gender identity.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, 2020 - The American Bar Association's Center for Human Rights presented its third annual Eleanor Roosevelt Prize for Global Human Rights Advancement this month. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Billie Jean King and Nasrin Sotoudeh were honored in a virtual ceremony.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21, 2020 - The American Bar Association filed an amicus brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to affirm a federal circuit court decision that the city of Philadelphia did not violate the First Amendment rights of a faith-based agency by conditioning the agency's ability to contract to perform public foster care services on its compliance with the city's non-discrimination policies.

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2020 - Lawyers who either identify as having disabilities or who identify as LGBTQ+ report experiencing both subtle and overt forms of discrimination at their workplaces, with common reports of subtle but unintentional biases. The findings come from a new national study released today by the American Bar Association, in collaboration with the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University.

CHICAGO, Sept. 18, 2015 — Three longstanding LGBT legal activists will be honored by the American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity with its third annual Stonewall Award during a ceremony on Feb. 6, 2016, at the ABA Midyear Meeting in San Diego.

CHICAGO, March 4, 2015 — The American Bar Association today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to rule that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex.