Center for Bar Leadership
Center and Standing Committee charged with building the capacity of bar organizations and leaders to support their members, improve the legal profession and the justice system, and serve their communities.
Public Services Group
Mission to expand access to justice, create accessible and effective legal services through innovation, advance public understanding of the law, build the capacity of bar associations, advance diversity, equity, and inclusion, support ABA Officers and planning for the ABA Midyear and Annual Meetings, and provide national leadership on legal and judicial ethics, professional regulation, professionalism, and client protection.
Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Center comprised of ten entities charged with advancing DEI in the Association, legal profession, and justice system.
Center for Innovation
Center charged with creating more accessible, efficient, and effective legal services through innovation, education, and collaboration.
Center for Professional Responsibility
Center comprised of nine entities charged with developing and interpreting standards and scholarly resources in legal and judicial ethics, professional regulation, professionalism, and client protection.
Cybersecurity Legal Taskforce
Task Force charged with providing a clearinghouse on cybersecurity activities, policy proposals, advocacy, publications, and resources.
Division for Public Education
Division comprised of two Standing Committees charged with advancing public understanding of law and its role in society.
Legal Services Division
Division comprised of three Standing Committees charged with expanding access to justice through the provision of, and appropriate funding for, legal assistance, counsel, and representation in the nation’s civil, criminal, and military justice systems.
Office of the President
Department charged with providing support to the ABA presidential officers as they serve the Association and the legal profession.
Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services
Standing Committee charged with improving access to lawyers and legal services for those of moderate incomes—those who do not qualify for legal aid yet lack the resources for full legal representation.
Standing Committee on Law and National Security
Standing Committee charged with educating the Bar and public on national security issues.
Standing Committee on Meetings and Travel
Standing Committee charged with providing support, policy direction, and governance oversight to the Meetings & Travel Department in support of its mission to produce cost-effective, user-friendly, and professionally managed ABA Midyear and Annual Meetings.