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| Founded | August 21, 1878 |
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| Type | Bar association |
| Headquarters | 321 North Clark Street Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
President | William R. Bay[1] |
Executive director & COO | Alpha M. Brady |
| Website | americanbar |
The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students in the United States; national in scope, it is not specific to any single jurisdiction. Founded in 1878,[2] the ABA's stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation of model ethical codes related to the legal profession. As of fiscal year 2017, the ABA had 194,000 dues-paying members, constituting approximately 14.4% of American attorneys.[3] In 1979, half of all lawyers in the U.S. were members of the ABA.[4] In 2016, about one third of the 1.3 million practicing lawyers in the U.S. were included in the ABA membership of 400,000,[5] with figures largely unchanged in 2024.[6]
The organization's national headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois, with a branch office in Washington, D.C.. The association is affiliated with the law, legal, and professional research sponsoring organization the American Bar Foundation.
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- ^ "Office of the President | President Reginald M. Turner". ABA. Archived from the original on February 5, 2009. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
- ^ ABA History Archived 2007-10-27 at the Wayback Machine; For a historical overview see Matzko, John A., "'The Best Men of the Bar': The Founding of the American Bar Association," in The New High Priests: Lawyers in Post-Civil War America, Gerard W. Gawalt (ed.), (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), pp. 75-96.
- ^ Coe, Aebra (July 24, 2018). "ABA Decline: Why Are Fewer Lawyers Joining The Club?" (PDF). Law360.
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bloombergwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Meese III, Edwin and Shackelford, Kelly J. "Free speech and faith will be stifled by American Bar Association" Archived October 7, 2024, at the Wayback Machine The Washington Times, August 17, 2016. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
- ^ Sloan, Karen "Bar exam alternatives gain American Bar Association backing" Reuters, May 17, 2024. Retrieved October 2, 2024.