Boston Bar Association
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| Founded | Incorporated 1861 |
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| Type | Bar Association |
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| Website | www.bostonbar.org |
The Boston Bar Association (BBA) is a volunteer non-governmental organization in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. With headquarters located at 16 Beacon Street in the historic Chester Harding House, across from the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill, the BBA has 11,000 members drawn from private practice, corporations, government agencies, legal aid organizations, the courts and law schools. It traces its origins to meetings convened by John Adams, the lawyer who provided pro bono representation to the British soldiers prosecuted for the Boston Massacre and went on to become the second president of the United States.
Governed by a Council of 30 members, the Boston Bar Association has 24 sections and more than 100 committees dedicated to substantive areas of law as well as issues such as access to justice and the administration of justice.
The Association makes its policy positions known via the filing of amicus briefs, the drafting of legislation and official comments on proposed government actions. Recent public policy positions taken by the Boston Bar Association include:
March 2012: The Boston Bar Association Task Force on the Civil Right to Counsel released "The Importance of Representation in Eviction Cases and Homelessness Prevention which recommended pilot projects to learn more about the mechanisms for providing counsel, the effect of creating a right to counsel, the costs involved, and the potential cost savings to the Commonwealth.
October 2011: The association released the Report of the Boston Bar Association Task Force on the Future of the Profession in response to the 2008 recession and its effects on the legal market.
May 2011: The association released a report, Justice on the Road to Ruin, on the Massachusetts State Trial Court’s state budget. The report states that continued inadequate court funding will inflict pain on real people.
March 2010: The association's Task Force on the FY 2011 Judiciary Budget released their report. The Report warns that further cuts to the Judiciary would have severe consequences for the administration of justice in the Commonwealth.
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