The Allegheny
County Bar Association (ACBA) is a professional organization
with more than 6,600 members including lawyers, judges,
district justices, legal administrators, and paralegals.
Chartered
in 1870
6,600-plus members (80% of all lawyers in Allegheny County)
365
law firms are represented
Officers:
President - Jay A. Blechman
President-elect - Kimberly A. Brown
Secretary - Howard J. Schulberg
Treasurer - Michelle L. Kopnski
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer - Mark A. Martini
Immediate Past President - Ken Gormley
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. offers a variety
of services for attorneys and other professionals,
including video deposition and court
reporting.
-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
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 Media Relations
412-402-6620
tloftus@acba.org