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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. Please click here to visit our judicial ratings page.
- 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:
1. ACBA Services, Inc. Provides a variety of legal support services for attorneys and other professionals, including video deposition and court reporting services.
2. 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.
For more information, contact:
Tom Loftus
Director of Marketing and Media Relations
412-402-6620
tloftus@acba.org