Publications
Division for Bar Services publications cover every significant area of bar leadership. Our array of guides, surveys, summaries, and periodicals all serve one purpose: to help your bar fulfill its mission.
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New Release!
2009 State and Local Bar Membership Dues and Mandatory Fees Survey
Dues structures and mandatory fees for 55 state bars and 124 local bars. Also includes membership benefits and services, retention rates, nondues sources of income, dues increases and dues collection methods.
Best of Best Projects
This 20th anniversary edition of 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.
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.
COMING SOON
The 2009 Bar Activities Inventory!
