Publications
The Division for Bar Services' produces a suite of publications covering every significant area of bar leadership. This targeted array of guides, surveys, summaries, and periodicals all coalesce around one purpose: to help your bar fulfill its mission.
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Featured Publication : 2007 State and Local Bar Membership Dues and Mandatory Fees Survey
Featured Publication : 2005 Bar Activities Inventory
A snapshot of the administration and programs of state and local bar associations. Includes answers to over 200 interesting and relevant questions from over 160 state and local bar associations on governance, finance, management, and programming. Also included is information from each responding bar on membership size, budgets, expenditures, nondues revenue, and staffing.
Featured Publication : Best of Best Projects
This 20th anniversary edition of the division publication Best Projects profiles 32 diverse bar programs that broke molds, started trends, and set new standards for bar work. Part retrospective, Best of Best Projects traces each project's life story, from how it started to how it's evolved. Part guide, it looks at each project from a practical angle to help you adapt it to your bar.
New Bar President & Members of the Board
2006 ABA Awards Listing
Best Projects of 2004
Bar Leader Magazine
Bar
Leader, a news magazine from the ABA Division for Bar Services,
published six times a year, covers the important issues and trends
that affect you as a leader at a state, local, or special-focus bar
association.
The Bridge
The Bridge, the division's bi-monthly newsletter, covers news about bar assocations nationwide and highlights ABA services and programs for bar associations.
Issues Update
A Web-exclusive publication, Issues Update looks at 12 big issues facing the profession. Each one-page overview gives a brief history and covers recent state and bar activity on the issue. Always one of your bar’s most valuable tools, this free Web version of Issues Update is now one of its most accessible.
ABA Book Publishing Discount Program
Available exclusively to state, local and specialty bars, the ABA Book Publishing Discount Program provides the opportunity to purchase top quality legal publications, direct from the ABA at a 40% discount.






