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  • The Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA) is a professional organization with more than 6,600 members including lawyers, judges, magisterial district judges, legal administrators, and paralegals.
  • Chartered in 1870
  • 6,600-plus members (80% of all lawyers in Allegheny County)
  • 365 law firms are represented
  • The Allegheny County Bar Association is an organization of legal professionals committed to serving its members by: providing education, advocacy, and professional services; promoting equality and diversity among its membership; fostering collegiality; advancing the public image of the profession and the highest standards of professional ethics; supporting and advocating for a fair and effective judicial system that is accessible to every individual regardless of economic status; and exercising leadership on a local, state, and national level so as to further these goals.
  • Please click here to view a list of our current officers.

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Key ACBA Executives

David A. Blaner, Executive Director
David J. Leonard, Assistant Executive Director

  • 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 call in with legal questions. For a list of community programs, click here.
  • The ACBA has two subsidiaries:
  1. Proliance Solutions provides a variety of legal support services for attorneys and other professionals, including video deposition and court reporting services.
  2. The 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

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