The Arkansas Bar Association is the
voluntary (non-mandatory)
bar association
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing to separ ...
of the
U.S. state of
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...
.
History
As early as 1837, there were efforts to organize association of lawyers in Arkansas, but it was not until 1898 that the Arkansas State Bar was organized.
Its first president was
Uriah Milton Rose
Uriah Milton Rose (March 5, 1834 – August 12, 1913) was an American lawyer and Confederate sympathizer. "Approachable, affable, and kind," graceful and courteous, he was called "the most scholarly lawyer in America" and "one of the leading ...
, whose name would come to grace the state's oldest and most prestigious legal enterprise,
Rose Law Firm
Rose Law Firm is an American law firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.
It dates its origins to November 1, 1820, sixteen years before Arkansas statehood, when Robert Crittenden, born 1797, and Chester Ashley, born 1791, entered into an a ...
.
Structure
The Arkansas Bar Association publishes the quarterly ''Arkansas Lawyer Magazine'',
the weekly "E-bulletins,"
and other publications.
The Arkansas Bar Association does not control lawyer licensing; that is a function of the Arkansas Board of Law Examiners.
It does not enforce the requirement that Arkansas lawyers must complete 12 credits of
Continuing Legal Education
Continuing legal education (CLE), also known as mandatory or minimum continuing legal education (MCLE) or, in some jurisdictions outside the United States, as continuing professional development, consists of professional education for attorneys t ...
each year.;
that is the function of the Arkansas Continuing Legal Education Board
References
American state bar associations
Government of Arkansas
1898 establishments in Arkansas
Organizations established in 1898
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