Helping Your Members Adapt to a Changing Profession: A Guide for Bar Associations

Working Through the Economic Downturn

Bar Leader: Bars And Their Members Deal With The Economy (Nov/Dec 2008)
2009 NABE Midyear Meeting: Association Survival in a Downturn Economy
Alabama State Bar: Resources for a Tough Time
The Missouri Bar: Lawyer Resources for a Changing Economy
Philadelphia Bar Association: Lawyers in Transition

Helping with Career Development

South Carolina Bar: Career Counsel
State Bar of Georgia: Resources for Unemployed Lawyers
American Bar Association Career Center
Massachusetts Bar Association CLE: Creative Ways to Use your Law Degree
State Bar of Wisconsin: Career Transitions
Maryland State Bar Association: Hanging Out A Shingle
Washington State Bar Association: Job Seeking Advice
Columbus Bar Association: Columbus Bar Inc
Professional Development Center

Easing the Transitioning to Practice

Utah State Bar: Model Mentoring Plan
State Bar of Texas: After the Bar Exam
Los Angeles County Bar Association: Legal Public Service Corps
Illinois State Bar Association: New-Admittee Virtual Coffeehouse

Senior Lawyers

2008 ABA Bar Leadership Institute: Bars & Boomers - Transition Planning for Senior Lawyers
Bar Leader: The New Senior Lawyer - Is Your Bar Ready (May-June 2007)
2009 NCBP Annual Meeting: Joint Workshop 1B –
Retirement? Not So Fast: Senior Lawyers Needs, Senior Lawyers Needed

Economic Survey of Local & State Bar Associations

In 2009, the ABA Division for Bar Services commissioned a three part economic survey to identify the effects of the economic downturn on state and local bar associations' activities, offerings, and budgets. The results of those follow-up are now available:

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Helping Your Members Adapt to a Changing Profession