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A bar association is a professional body of lawyers. Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members; in many cases, they are both. In many Commonwealth jurisdictions, the bar association comprises lawyers who are qualified as barristers or advocates in particular, versus solicitors (see bar council). Membership in bar associations may be mandatory or optional for practicing attorneys, depending on jurisdiction.
The use of the term bar to mean "the whole body of lawyers, the legal profession" comes ultimately from English custom. In the early 16th century, a railing divided the hall in the Inns of Court, with students occupying the body of the hall and readers or benchers on the other side. Students who officially became lawyers crossed the symbolic physical barrier and were "admitted to the bar". Later, this was popularly assumed to mean the wooden railing marking off the area around the judge's seat in a courtroom, where prisoners stood for arraignment and where a barrister stood to plead. In modern courtrooms, a railing may still be in place to enclose the space which is occupied by legal counsel as well as the criminal defendants and civil litigants who have business pending before the court.
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Forum was held by the National Bar Association and Avenging The Ancestors Coalition (ATAC) on January 22, 2014 at Temple University in Phila. Pa. The focus of the forum was titled, "Know Your Rights Because It Could Save Your Life" Panelists were Pamela J. Meanes, Esq, (President of The National Bar Association), Qawi Abdul-Rahman, Esq., Leon Goodman, Esq., Wille Lee Nattiel Jr. Esq, First deputy Police Commissioner Richard J. Ross Jr., and deborah Watson-Stokes, Esq. Moderator - Michael Coard, Esq.
The Treasonous International Bar Association Link Below: http://educate-yourself.org/cn/treasonousintnlbarassociation26feb05.shtml
The Nigeria Bar Association calls on President Buhari to make sure all security agencies responsible for the arrest of some Nigerian judges be put to order, Speaking during the valedictory sitting for Honourable Justice Suleiman Galadima, President, NBA Abubakar Mahmood stated that the military style of operations in which the DSS are using to operate is totally unacceptable in a democratic society The DSS on Friday, October 7, and Saturday October 8, raided the homes of some judges across the country and recovered more than 800, 000 dollars from them “we deem this actions as illegal and unconstitutional, the unacceptable against private citizens and moreso justices of supreme court in Nigeria should stop. Last night, the presidency issued a statement by the Senate special media assi...
Andy Ostrowski, Pennsylvania Congressional Candidate District 11, exposes the root causes that have led to the corrupt American Judicial System that has turned the courts against the American people and why fairness and justice no longer exists in the courts. http://ostrowskiforcongress.com/
Lahore High Court Bar Association election
Paulette Brown, President, American Bar Association; Partner/co-chair, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Locke Lord LLP James Taylor, Ph.D., Director of African American Studies and Professor of Political Science, University of San Francisco; Lecturer, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, University of California Berkeley—Moderator Paulette Brown is the first woman of color to become president of the ABA and has been recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the “50 most influential minority lawyers in America.” She has been a municipal court judge, in addition to focusing on all facets of labor and employment litigation. Brown has devoted her presidency to “rebuilding the nation’s confidence in our justice system” by “working to eliminate bias and enhance div...
For one week, over 3,000 lawyers gathered in Abuja for the 52nd annual general conference of the Nigeria Bar Association. Our judiciary correspondent, Shola Soyele was there and she has the highlights of the conference in this report.
Did you know that the ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) is making an impact worldwide? ABA ROLI has been working worked in more than 100 countries for the past 25 years with a presence in five regions - Africa; Asia and the Pacific; Europe and Eurasia; Latin America and the Caribbean; and the Middle East and North Africa. ABA ROLI Director Elizabeth Andersen summarizes the work that the organization does in this presentation.
At the annual American Bar Association conference, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received the highest award of the ABA, the 2013 ABA Medal, for conspicuous service in the cause of American Jurisprudence. In her acceptance speech, topics included her career, women in leadership, and voting rights. She urged the ABA to take action as she talked about the Supreme Court's recent decision to strike down a key section of the Voting Rights Act and recent laws passed around the country limiting people's ability to vote. She called the reasons for passing the laws as solving a "phantom" problem and said "Anyone who says racial discrimination is no longer a problem in American elections, must not be paying attention." August 12, 2013
Dean Strang discusses Making a Murderer, sponsored in part by the National Center for Audio and Video Forensics. Thank you to Lou Shapiro and the Westside Bar Association for organizing this event and for including us. If you have video, audio, or still image evidence -- for example, from surveillance cameras, smartphones, officer dash cams, dispatch audio, or 911 calls -- contact us to investigate, enhance, and analyze how your digital media may impact your case. NCAVF also testifies in court as an expert witness to talk about the video, audio, or still image analysis that we did, to be used as evidence in your trial. See some samples here on YouTube and also on our website, NCAVF.com Find • Enhance • Analyze • Prepare • Testify http://www.NCAVF.com
SCBA Fairwell Function in honour of Hon’ble Mr. Justice C. Nagappan, Judge, Supreme Court of India( held on 03-10-2016)