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Key ACBA Executives

David A. Blaner, Executive Director
David J. Leonard, Senior Director of Finance
Ann Ewart, Senior Director of Operations & Human Resources

• The ACBA oversees more than 50 committees dealing with legal issues in such areas as Entertainment and the Arts, Adoption Law, Elder Law, Construction Law, Business Law, and Bankruptcy.
• The ACBA operates a Lawyer Referral Service for consumers. The phone number is 412-261-5555.
• Judicial ratings for candidates for the Common Pleas Courts are established by the Judiciary Committee of the ACBA. Visit www.acba.org for more information about these ratings.
• The ACBA offers multiple community programs such as the Speakers Bureau, which provides attorneys to speaker to a variety of community groups free of charge, and KD & You and the Law, produced in cooperation with KDKA television. Attorneys volunteer to answer calls from viewers who dial in with legal questions. For a list of community programs, click here.
• The ACBA has two subsidiaries:
  -ACBA Services, Inc. Provides a variety of legal support services for attorneys and other professionals, including video deposition and court reporting services.
  
  -Allegheny County Bar Foundation provides educational programs, promotes public awareness of the legal and judicial systems, renders legal services to low-income clients, and provides financial assistance and grants to legal-related organizations.
• The ACBA has a Young Lawyers Division. This group provides young lawyers with a means of gaining broader participation in bar activities, a forum for continuing legal education, and a vehicle for social exchange with their contemporaries at the bar.

For more information, contact:

Tom Loftus
Director of Marketing and Media Relations
412-402-6620
tloftus@acba.org