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| Founded | Incorporated 1861 |
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| Type | Bar Association |
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Area served | Law |
| Website | www.bostonbar.org |
The Boston Bar Association (BBA) is a volunteer non-governmental organization in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. With headquarters located at 16 Beacon Street in the historic Chester Harding House, across from the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill, the BBA has 13,000[1] members drawn from private practice, corporations, government agencies, legal aid organizations, the courts and law schools.
The Association traces its origins to the pre-Revolutionary period. The elite of the Boston bar included Jeremiah Gridley, James Otis Jr., Benjamin Pratt, Benjamin Kent, and Oxenbridge Thacher.[2] These elite British lawyers served as the role model for John Adams, the lawyer who provided pro bono representation to the British soldiers prosecuted for the Boston Massacre and went on to become the second president of the United States.[3]
Governed by a Council of 30 members, the Boston Bar Association has 24 sections and more than 100 committees dedicated to substantive areas of law as well as issues such as access to justice and the administration of justice.
- ^ "About the Boston Bar Association". Boston Bar Association.
- ^ "Justinian in Braintree: John Adams, Civilian Learning, and Legal Elitism, 1758–1775".
- ^ Smith, Bonnie Hurd (2008). Boston Women & the Law: A Walking Trail Through Four Centuries of Boston Women's Legal History. New England Law - Boston. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-9791214-3-2.