Bar Associations are a great way to increase your network, meet new people, stay up to date in your field or industry, and often memberships provide access to job postings.
| National Bar Associations | |
| Advocates Society | www.advocatesociety.com |
| American Academy of Adoption Attorneys | www.adoptionattorneys.com |
| American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers | www.aaml.org |
| American Bar Association | www.abanet.org |
| American Immigration Lawyers Association | www.aila.org |
| American Inns of Court | www.innsofcourt.org |
| American Intellectual Property Law Association | www.aipla.org |
| Appellate Lawyers Association | www.applawyers.org |
| Cuban American Bar Association | www.cabaonline.com |
| Decalogue Society of Lawyers | www.decaloguesociety.com |
| Federal Bar Association | www.fedbar.org |
| Hellenic Bar Association | www.hellenicbarassociation.com |
| Hispanic National Bar Association | www.hnba.com |
| Lithuanian-American Bar Association | www.javadvokatai.org |
| National Asian Pacific American Bar Association | www.napaba.org |
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers | www.nacdl.org |
| National Bar Association | www.nationalbar.org |
| National Employment Lawyers Association | www.nela.org |
| National Italian American Bar Association | www.niaba.org |
| National Lawyers Association | www.nla.org |
| National Lawyers Guild | www.nlgchicago.org |
| National LGBT Bar Association | www.lgbtbar.org |
| National Native American Bar Association | www.nativeamericanbar.org |
| Serbian Bar Association of America | www.serbbar.org |
| U.S.–Mexico Bar Association | www.usmexicobar.org |
| State, City, and County Bar Associations | |
| Note: “~” marks the state bar association for | |
| states with multiple listings | |
| Alabama | |
| Alabama State Bar | www.alabar.org |
| Alaska | |
| Alaska Bar Association | www.alaskabar.org |
| Arizona | |
| ~State Bar of Arizona | www.azbar.org |
| Maricopa County Bar Association | www.maricopabar.org |
| Arkansas | |
| Arkansas Bar Association | www.arkbar.com |
| California | |
| ~State Bar of California | www.calbar.ca.gov |
| Bar Association of San Francisco | www.sfbar.org |
| Los Angeles County Bar Association | www.lacba.org |
| San Diego County Bar Association | www.sdcba.org |
| Colorado | |
| Colorado Bar Association | www.cobar.org |
| Connecticut | |
| Connecticut Bar Association | www.ctbar.org |
| Delaware | |
| Delaware State Bar Association | www.dsba.org |
| District of Columbia | |
| District of Columbia Association | www.dcbar.org |
| Florida | |
| The Florida Bar | www.floridabar.org |
| Georgia | |
| State Bar of Georgia | www.gabar.org |
| Atlanta Bar Association | www.atlantabar.org |
| Hawaii | |
| Hawaii State Bar Association | www.hsba.org |
| Idaho | |
| Idaho State Bar | isb.idaho.gov |
| Illinois | |
| ~Illinois State Bar Associ.ation | www.isba.org |
| Chicago Bar Association | www.chicagobar.org |
| Cook County Bar Association | |
| Illinois Judicial Council | www.illinoisjudicialcouncil.org |
| Women’s Bar Association of Illinois | www.wbaillinois.org |
| Indiana | |
| ~Indiana State Bar Association | www.inbar.org |
| Hispanic Bar of Lake County | |
| Indianapolis Bar Association | www.indybar.org |
| Kimbrough Bar Association | |
| Lake County Bar Association | www.lakecountybar.com |
| Monroe County Bar Association | www.monroecountybar.org |
| Porter County Bar Association | |
| Porter County Inns of Court | |
| St. Joseph County Bar Association | www.sjcba.org |
| Women’s Bar of Lake County | |
| Iowa | |
| The Iowa State Bar Association | www.iowabar.org |
| Kentucky | |
| Kentucky Bar Association | www.kybar.org |
| Louisiana | |
| Louisiana State Bar Association | www.lsba.org |
| Maine | |
| Maine Bar Association | www.mainebar.org |
| Maryland | |
| Maryland State Bar Association | www.msba.org |
| Massachusetts | |
| ~Massachusetts Bar Association | www.massbar.org |
| Boston Bar Association | www.bostonbar.org |
| Michigan | |
| State Bar of Michigan | www.michbar.org |
| Minnesota | |
| Minnesota State Bar Association | www.mnbar.org |
| Mississippi | |
| Mississippi Bar | www.msbar.org |
| Missouri | |
| The Missouri Bar | www.mobar.org |
| Montana | |
| State Bar of Montana | www.montanabar.org |
| Nebraska | |
| Nebraska State Bar Association | www.nebar.com |
| Nevada | |
| State Bar of Nevada | www.nvbar.org |
| New Hampshire | |
| New Hampshire Bar Association | www.nhbar.org |
| New Mexico | |
| State Bar of New Mexico | www.nmbar.org |
| New York | |
| ~New York State Bar Association | www.nysba.org |
| New York City Bar | www.nycbar.org |
| North Carolina | |
| North Carolina Bar Association | www.ncbar.org |
| North Dakota | |
| State Bar Association of North Dakota | www.sband.org |
| Ohio | |
| ~Ohio State Bar Association | www.ohiobar.org |
| Columbus Bar Association | www.cbalaw.org |
| Oklahoma | |
| Oklahoma Bar Association | www.okbar.org |
| Oregon | |
| Oregon State Bar | www.osbar.org |
| Pennsylvania | |
| ~Pennsylvania Bar Association | www.pabar.org |
| Philadelphia Bar Association | www.philadelphiabar.org |
| Puerto Rico | |
| Puerto Rico Bar Association | www.prba.net |
| Rhode Island | |
| Rhode Island Bar Association | www.ribar.com |
| South Carolina | |
| South Carolina Bar Association | www.scbar.org |
| South Dakota | |
| State Bar of South Dakota | www.sdbar.org |
| Tennessee | |
| ~Tennessee Bar Association | www.tba.org |
| Nashville Bar Association | www.nashvillebar.org |
| Texas | |
| ~State Bar of Texas | www.texasbar.com |
| Houston Bar Association | www.hba.org |
| Utah | |
| Utah State Bar | www.utahbar.org |
| Vermont | |
| Vermont Bar Association | www.vtbar.org |
| Virginia | |
| Virginia State Bar | www.vsb.org |
| Washington | |
| Washington State Bar Association | www.wsba.org |
| West Virginia | |
| West Virginia State Bar Association | www.wvbarassociation.org |
| Wisconsin | |
| Wisconsin Bar Association | www.wisbar.org |
| Wyoming | |
| Wyoming State Bar | www.wyomingbar.org |
