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ABA Board to Consider Membership Efforts at Annual Meeting

Posted Jul 27, 2009, 05:47 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Facing an expected membership decline of up to 4,000 lawyers this year, the ABA has hired Leo Burnett Co. to help market itself.

The advertising agency will give a presentation to the ABA Board of Governors at the annual meeting that begins this Thursday in Chicago, the National Law Journal reports. ABA President H. Thomas Wells Jr. told the publication in an interview that the ABA expects membership, which stood at 408,000 at the end of the last fiscal year, to drop by 2,000 to 4,000 people this year.

Wells said the economic downturn is part of the reason for the membership decline. Lawyers who spoke to the publication also blamed the expansion of law firms… Continue reading...



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