Looking for ways to boost or better manage your bar association's membership? This guide helps bar association leaders quickly learn about the latest in membership trends, technology, and how to target specifc lawyer populations.

Disaster planning is a constant concern to bar association staff and members. This page contains disaster response plans, tips on data backup, and much more advice on how to best prepare your organization.

Useful statistics, past Bar Leader articles, bar association awards, research studies by the ABA and state, local, and specialty bar associations, and more are found in this guide to diversity resources.

Crafting an effective president page is one of the most trying tasks of a bar president's year. This guide provides examples of past president pages along with some useful writing tips.

This collection of articles, studies, and other materials attempts to organize what major legal publications, organizations, and bloggers predict about the future of the legal profession.

The American Bar Association's Bar Leader Toolkit provides state and local bar associations with a sample op-ed piece, links to ABA resources to use in speaking, writing and editorializing within your communities. The publication focuses on a different issue for each of its monthly publications.

• July 2007: Legal Service for Those Who Serve
• August 2007: Advance Directives—Preparing for the Future
• September 2007: Constitution Day 2007
• October 2007: Avoiding Identity Theft
• December 2007: Law Day
• February 2008: A Fair & Impartial Judiciary

The bar association community has pledged its support to help the victims impacted by Hurricane Katrina. See how the ABA and other bar associations are working to assist the relief process.

The November/December 2001 issue of Bar Leader was devoted to disaster planning, response and recovery.

The ABA Standing Committee on Judicial Independence prepared this resource kit for use by bar leaders and other concerned citizens. This work-in-progress contains sample op-ed pieces, and speeches.

Resource Kit on Fair and Impartial Courts>>

The legal profession has never been immune to criticism, but in recent years disdain for lawyers and judges has bordered on the hysterical, as they have increasingly been held up as scapegoats or caught in the crosscurrents of debates over the hot-button social issues of our time. The American Bar Association has responded with the following items, which we encourage you to use in response to unjust attacks on the judiciary, courts and the legal profession.

Supporting America's Judiciary Toolkit>>

As part of the ABA's committed opposition to Congressional efforts to preempt state medical laws, the Association has worked on Capitol Hill to prevent Congress from enacting legislation implementing caps, developed background material for use by members and state and local bars, and continued to work through the media to educate the public about the myths and false rhetoric that dominate this issue.

Medical Malpractice Toolkit >>