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The Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) is a voluntary bar association with more than 16,000 members throughout Los Angeles County, California, and the world. [1] Founded in 1878, LACBA has strived to meet the professional needs of lawyers, advance the administration of justice, and provide the public with access to justice.
The objects of the Hong Kong Bar Association are generally to consider and to take proper action on all matters affecting the legal profession and the administration of justice. These include: the maintenance of the honour and independence of the Bar; the improvement of the administration of justice in Hong Kong;
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing (bar) to separate the area in which court or legal profession business is done from the viewing area for the general public or students of the law.
The group has advocated for the nomination and confirmation of more Asian American judges to the federal courts. [2] [3]In 2000, the group led a consortium of Asian American organizations that called for a bipartisan independent inquiry in the Wen Ho Lee case, including whether the investigation of Lee, a former scientist of Los Alamos National Laboratory, was tainted by anti-Asian bias.
The State Bar's predecessor was a voluntary state bar association known as the California Bar Association. [8]: xiii The leader of the effort to establish an integrated (official) bar was Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan, who first proposed the concept at the California Bar Association's Santa Barbara convention in September 1917, and provided the California Bar Association with a copy of a Quebec ...
Hong Yen Chang [a] (張康仁; 1859 or 1860 [1] - August 4, 1926) was reportedly the first Chinese immigrant licensed to practice law in the United States. [2] Though admitted to the New York State Bar, he was denied admission to the California State Bar in 1890.
Los Angeles County Bar Association; Los Angeles County Counsel; Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation; Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association; Los Angeles County Young Democrats; Los Angeles crime family; Los Angeles Film Critics Association; Los Angeles Free Music Society; Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum
The High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [1] is a part of the legal system of Hong Kong. It consists of the Court of Appeal and the Court of First Instance ; it deals with criminal and civil cases which have risen beyond the lower courts.