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The ABA Division for Bar Services

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

This electronic publication contains a complete listing of the dues levels and mandatory fees for 57 state bars and 150 local bars. Also includes information on membership benefits and services, retention rates, nondues sources of income, dues increases and dues collection methods.

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

The definitive guide to bar leadership. Covers topics of both internal importance--such as governance and sound financial management--to the bar's relations with its members, the public, and the news media. Bulk prices available.

2006 ABA Awards Listing

New The latest edition of the exclusive guide to ABA-sponsored awards and competitions. Each entry includes a detailed description including award history, recent winners, application deadline, Web site, and staff contact.

Best Projects of 2004

Profiles of noteworthy projects sponsored by state and local bar associations. Includes planning information and names and addresses of contacts for more information.

Bar Financial Management: A Basic Guide

Practical, simple advice and guidelines for topics ranging from accounting procedures to zero-based budgeting.

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.

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