Private Equity Industry Organizations

Entrepreneurs/Small Business Groups

Northwest Venture Group
The Northwest Venture Group, a non-profit professional association, is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed.

Since 1985, NWVG has helped entrepreneurs connect with other entrepreneurs, investors, professional service providers, and other like-minded individuals through the Group's unique networking opportunities. NWVG also offers excellent educational programs, extensive information resources and private coaching designed to help entrepreneurs build stronger businesses, accelerate growth, and access funding. Members | Journal | Seminars | E-mail

EntreWorld.org
EntreWorld is an online information resource for entrepreneurs and supporters of entrepreneurship. EntreWorld provides a solution to information overload on the Web by providing highly filtered information coded by stage of business development. The main feature of the site is its three channels: Starting Your Business, Growing Your Business and Supporting Entrepreneurship. Coordinated by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Entrepreneurs' Association
The Entrepreneurs' Association is a Central Texas-based economic development group for small business owners. Located in Austin, it is the area's only business organization intended primarily for owner-operated small businesses. Their 650+ members want to "do it themselves," but they also want to do it successfully. They assist each member to build a thriving businesses locally, nationally, or internationally and in accordance to their vision of the kind of business they want to run. The Entrepreneurs' Association is the recent winner of the Austin Quality Council Level One award for their commitment to quality and their customers.
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Online Women's Business Center
An interactive business skills training web site dedicated to helping entrepreneurial women to realize their goals and aspirations for their personal and professional development. Created by the SBA's Office of Women's Business Ownership that is shared by the North Texas Women's Business Development Center and SBA Women's Business Centers across America. These partners saw the value and the possibilities of bringing together the public and private sectors to further the empowerment of women everywhere. Online forums, message boards, resource database and informative articles are tools offered free of charge.

National Center for Employee Ownership
The National Center for Employee Ownership (NECO) is a non-profit membership, information and research organization that focuses on employee ownership in its various applications. The NCEO publishes many books and research papers in addition to periodicals.
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National Association for the Self Employed (NASE)
The NASE is the most experienced and largest small-business association of its kind. More than 320,000 members give the NASE a powerful voice in Washington, D.C.
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Research Institute for Small & Emerging Business
Founded in 1976, the Research Institute for Small & Emerging Business, Inc. (RISEbusiness) is based in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to enhance the formation and growth of the small and emerging business sector by developing and sponsoring high-quality, groundbreaking research on small and emerging businesses and then ensuring its effective dissemination. By providing corporations, policy makers, and business or trade associations serving this sector with substantive and insightful (market, policy, and field) research on issues impacting the formation and growth of small and emerging businesses, we inform and enhance decision making pertaining to this important sector of the economy.
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American Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth (AEEG)
Representation, Education, and Networking for America's Emerging Growth Companies

Business Incubators and Incubator Related Business Development Links

Coahoma County Business Development Center
Doing Business in Urban Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities
Dunn-Richmond Economic Development Center
Edison Technology Incubators
Ellensburg Business Incubator
EnterpriseOnline Support Organizations
Erie County, Pennsylvania Business Incubator Network
Florida Business Incubator Page
Fulton County Business Incubator
Illinois Small Business Incubators
Miscellaneous Links to Foreign Science Parks and Business Incubators
The Model Works Industrial Commons Incubator
National Business Incubator Association Members
New Jersey Small Business Development Center
The Oxford Centre for Innovation
Quebec Biotechnology Innovation Center
SBA-Women's Business Centers
Southeastern Utah's Small Business Incubator Program
Stockton Chamber Business Incubator
Texas Business Incubators
Uniflow Center
Women's Electronic Business Incubators Network

Professional Associations: Accounting

Alabama Society of CPAs
It is the mission of the Society to promote the common professional interests of Alabama Certified Public Accountants. As a society, they are dedicated to improving the accounting, tax, management, auditing, and other professional services provided by our members to their clients, employers, and the public.
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American Institute of CPAs
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and its predecessors have a history dating back to 1887, when the American Association of Public Accountants was formed. In 1916, the American Association was succeeded by the Institute of Public Accountants, at which time there was a membership of 1,150. The name was changed to the American Institute of Accountants in 1917 and remained so until 1957, when the name was again changed to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The American Society of Certified Public Accountants was formed in 1921 and acted as a federation of state societies. The Society was merged into the Institute in 1936 and, at that time, the Institute agreed to restrict its future members to CPAs.
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American Accounting Association
The American Accounting Association was founded in 1916 as the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting. Its present name was adopted in 1936. The Association is a voluntary organization of persons interested in accounting education and research. Full membership entitles one to receive The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education, and Accounting Education News, as well as to purchase Association publications at a discount. Associate members, limited to full-time students enrolled in institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, receive one of the above publications.
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American Management Association
American Management Association provides educational forums worldwide where members and their colleagues learn superior, practical business skills and explore best practices of world-class organizations through interaction with each other and expert faculty practitioners. AMA's publishing program provides tools individuals use to extend learning beyond the classroom in a process of life-long professional growth and development through education.
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Arizona Society of CPAs
The Arizona Society of Certified Public Accountants is a voluntary association of CPAs and associate members, active and retired, in public practice, industry, government, and education. The Society is established to develop the professional practice of accountancy, both in public and non-public, encourage the maintenance of high professional standards, encourage the networking relationships among CPAs, promote a better understanding by the general public of services rendered by Certified Public Accountants, promote and provide the highest standard of continuing education and act in a representative capacity for the profession.
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Associated Accounting Firms
Associated Accounting Firms International (AAFI) is a full service association of large local and regional independent Certified Public Accounting firms which provides education, training and marketing assistance to the premier firms that make up our membership. Located in over 125 cities in North America, the AAFI network can provide clients with a nationwide depth of resources and expertise, but delivered with the close personalized attention that can only be offered on the local level.
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Associated Regional Accounting Firms
ARAF is an association of independently owned and managed accounting and consulting firms with offices throughout North America. ARAF strengthens the practices of its member firms in a variety of ways: increased representation throughout North America and the world, access to specialists, expertise and specialized knowledge throughout the ARAF network of firms, superior professional education. marketing and practice development support and a library of high-quality technical materials. The members focus on helping their clients improve the operation and profitability of their businesses by providing them with traditional accounting and consulting services, proactive tax planning advice and a variety of specialized services.
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Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
The Association was formed in 1988 to provide a forum for professionals who investigate fraud in all of its many and varied forms. Members of the Association who have been designated as Certified Fraud Examiners have earned their certification after an extensive application process and rigorous testing. Certified Fraud Examiners are employed both by government and the private sector. They resolve allegations of fraud, as well as assist in its prevention and detection. Collectively, 15,000 Certified Fraud Examiners in 50 nations have investigated more than 1 million suspected cases of civil and criminal fraud.
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Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants
With more than 80,000 members, the Australian Society of CPAs is Australia's largest professional body and the world's third largest accounting body. It has divisions throughout Australia, an Asian Division representing some 12,000 Asia-based members and branches in Europe, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. One of the most significant CPA initiatives in recent years has been the establishment of 11 Centres of Excellence, each representing a key technical area of the accounting profession, including audit, tax, information technology and superannuation. The Centres spearhead the CPAs drive to lead the accounting profession and provide up-to-date, authoritative information on a range of accounting-related issues. The ASCPA also conducts leading-each programs in the areas of professional development, quality assurance and education. The CPA Program is recognized as a world leader in post-graduate distance education and is in high demand among graduates embarking on professional careers or seeking to upgrade their skills and status after some time in the workforce.
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BKR International
BKR International is an association of independent firms of accounting, taxation, and business advisers located in major markets throughout the world. Member firms are large enough to offer a full range of technical services and are small enough to deliver a personal service and offer independent and objective advice for entrepreneurs. They deliver creative and practical services to clients through: highly trained, skilled and motivated professionals; continual investment in leading edge technology; rigorous standards and procedures.
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California Society of CPAs
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Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants
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Certified Management Accountants of British Columbia, Canada
As management professionals, CMAs are trained to lead and innovate, to be adept in the arts of communication and negotiation, and to construct a clear, strategic view of the organization. CMAs bring to any team a special blend of management skills and sound professional accounting expertise. It is a blend achieved through carefully structured educational programs that include the CMA Professional Program and the Associate Accounting Technologist (AAT) curriculum.
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DFK International
DFK International is an Organization consisting of independent accounting firms throughout the world. It is committed to meeting the needs of businesses and individuals with interests in more than one country.
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The International Affiliation of Independent Accounting Firms, Inc. - IA International
Independent Accountants International is a non-profit, global association made up of independent accounting firms, IA Consulting and our Educational Foundation. Membership firms include more than 5,000 business advisors in sixty-eight countries.
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Illinois CPA Society
The Illinois CPA Society/Foundation is the state professional association representing more than 26,000 certified public accountants in Illinois. Our members include over 550 CEOs, 4,320 CFOs/Controllers, 1,400 Financial Executives, and 4,675 Partners/Owners of CPA Firms.
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Information Systems Audit & Control Association
An Association and Foundation of IS professionals dedicated to the Information Systems Audit, Control, and Security Professions through a commitment to Education, Certification, Research, and Standards.
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Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales is the largest professional accountancy body in Europe and its qualification, which allows its members to call themselves chartered accountants and to use the designatory letters ACA or FCA, is recognized around the world as a prestigious business qualification.
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Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland
Incorporated by royal charter on 14 May 1888, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland is the oldest and largest body of accountants in Ireland.
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Institute of Internal Auditors - United Kingdom
The primary body in the UK and Ireland representing, promoting and developing the professional practice of internal auditing.
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Institute of Management Accountants
The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) is the leading professional organization devoted exclusively to management accounting and finance professionals. Membership in IMA provides the opportunity to keep abreast of the changes affecting the accounting and finance profession, as well as provide new insights and ideas. With approximately 84,000 members, over 300 local chapters and several international affiliates, IMA offers members personal and professional development through education, certification in management accounting skills, and association with fellow accounting and finance professionals.
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The International Group of Accounting Firms - IGAF
The International Group of Accounting Firms, Limited, is a worldwide organization of quality, independent local and regional firms of Certified Public Accountants, Chartered Accountants, or their professional equivalents. IGAF was founded in 1977 for the purpose of providing members and clients with the capability of furnishing a broad spectrum of accounting, auditing, and management services on an efficient and cost effective basis around the globe.
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International Federation of Accountants
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) is the world-wide organization for the accountancy profession. The mission of IFAC is the development and enhancement of the profession to enable it to provide services of consistently high quality in the public interest.
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National Association of Tax Practitioners - NATP
NATP's mission is to provide educational services that will enable our members to reach their goals in the tax preparation profession, to protect the right of free enterprise for tax practitioners and to participate in the formation of good public policy.
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Ohio Society of CPAs
The Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants (OSCPA) is a dynamic professional organization comprised of more than 18,000 CPAs working together to advance the accounting profession and to serve the public interest. Founded in 1908, The Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants is among the oldest and largest CPA organizations in the United States and has an outstanding record of service to its members. The Society's membership consists of CPAs who practice in public accounting, industry, education and government.
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Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs
The mission of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants is to further the well-being of its members, while upholding the public interest, by: enhancing quality services founded on professionals competence, integrity and objectivity, serving as an advocate for, and promoting the public image of, its members and articulating positions on professional and public issues where the expertise of CPA's is relevant.
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Rhode Island Society of CPAs
Society Mission Statement is "To provide leadership and resources which promote to society the high standards of integrity and honor of the CPA profession and contribute to the success of our members."
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Society of Management Accountants of Canada
The Society of Management Accountants of Canada represents more than 27,000 Certified Management Accountants (CMA) and over 3,400 CMA candidates in Canada. This World Wide Web site provides information on the CMA designation and management accounting, how to become a CMA, and features a highly topical management issue each month in What's New. The CMA Library provides a comprehensive collection of publications dealing with the implementation of leading-edge management techniques, including CMA magazine, the professional journal for better management decisions.
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Society of Management Accountants in the Maritimes and Bermuda

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Society of Management Accountants of Ontario
Incorporated in 1941, The Society of Management Accountants of Ontario is the professional association responsible for the accreditation, regulation and continuing professional education of Certified Management Accountants (CMAs) in the Province of Ontario. We currently have more than 13,500 certified and 2,500 student members.

The Society's professional education program emphasizes the involvement of the management accountant in financial, business and management decisions where the focus is cost determination and profitability analysis, together with budgeting and planning techniques.
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Tennessee Society of CPAs
The Tennessee Society of CPA's goal is to provide the most up-to-date information on continuing professional education, membership, meetings, and services.
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Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants
The Texas Society of CPAs (TSCPA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting professionalism among CPAs. TSCPA also fosters a consciousness of public responsibility in conformity with standards set by professional bodies and the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy (TSBPA). Committed to protecting the public interest throughout the state, the 31,000-plus member association has the largest in-state membership of any CPA organization in the nation.
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Utah Association of CPAs
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Washington Society of CPAs

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS THAT ARE NOT ONLINE:

American Society Of Women Accountants
1299 Del Mar Ave Fl 2 San Jose, CA 95128 408-287-4793
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The International Society of Appraisers
ISA is the largest personal property appraisal association in North America. They have 1,265 members in four broad specialty areas: Machinery & Equipment, Fine Art, Gems & Jewelry, and Antiques & Residential Contents. ISA is affiliated with the University of Maryland University College. The University provides academic guidance to the ISA Certified Appraiser of Personal Property (CAPP) program. They review and accredit ISA CAPP Courses, certifying that the courses meet the University's high academic standards and they award Continuing Education Units to course graduates. ISA's resident courses are offered several times a year in various cities across the USA and Canada.
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The National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA)
NACVA consists mostly of CPA's who provide business valuation services. Though membership is open to anyone interested in joining, a prerequisite for obtaining NACVA's designation of Certified Valuation analyst (CVA) is that one must be a licensed CPA. NACVA offers a training program along with periodic conferences and symposiums. For more information call (801) 486-0600.
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The Appraisal Foundation
The Appraisal Foundation is authorized by Congress a the source of appraisal standards and appraiser qualifications, which it promulgates through the Appraisal Standards Board (ASB) and Appraiser Qualifications Board (AQB). The Uniform Standards of Appraisal Practice (USPAP) is published annually in November. For more information call (202) 347-7722.
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Professional Associations that are not online:

Practice Valuation Study Group
The Practice Valuation Study Group consists primarily of brokers dealing in the valuation and sale of dental practices with some members of the Study Group working with medical practices. The main purpose of the group is to share ideas and experiences in appraisal methodologies and marketing of dental practices. The Study Group is not structured as a teaching forum to teach new brokers the business but to bring together experienced brokers to improve and refine their practices to better serve their professional clients. The group is informally structured with no dues or officers. It meets once a year, usually in late October. For more information call (415) 468-3880.
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American Association of Business Valuation Specialists
PO Box 13089 Tallahassee, FL 32317
Phone 904-878-3134
Fax 904-878-1291
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Financial Intermediaries, Managers & Brokers Regulatory Association
Hertsmere House Hertsmere Rd London E14 4AB
Telephone No: 0171 538 8860
Fax No: 0171 895 8579
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British Merchant Banking Securities Houses Association
6 Frederick's Place
London EC2R 8BT
Telephone No: 0171 796 3606
Fax No: 0171 796 4345
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Financial Intermediaries, Managers & Brokers Regulatory Association
Hertsmere House Hertsmere Rd London E14 4AB
Telephone No: 0171 538 8860
Fax No: 0171 895 8579
Members

British Merchant Banking Securities Houses Association
6 Frederick's Place
London EC2R 8BT
Telephone No: 0171 796 3606
Fax No: 0171 796 4345
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Organization Development Network
ODN is an association of organization development practitioners representing a range of professional roles in a wide variety of organizations. About half the Organization Development Network (ODN) members are employed by private industry, non-profit organizations and government agencies. The other half operate their own consulting firms, engage in private practice and/or teach. While the ODN is a U.S.-based association, our members are from more than 90 countries worldwide.
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Professional and Technical Consultants Association
PATCA is a professional association of independent consultants and principals who work in small consulting firms in a variety of technical and non-technical fields. Dedicated to enhancing professionalism, integrity, objectivity, and business competence of members and to promoting the profession of consulting, PATCA was incorporated in the State of California as a non-profit association in 1975.
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Professional Associations: Financial Executives

Financial Executives Institute
We are the preeminent professional organization representing 14,000 senior financial executives from over 8,000 corporations throughout Canada and the United States. Our chapters help our members build new relationships with an elite group of professionals. Our programs provide interdisciplinary tools to engineer exceptional personal and company performance, and our career development services provide the opportunity for self-actualization in a continually changing world.
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Financial Managers Society
The Financial Managers Society is a professional society of nearly 1,800 CFOs, CEOs, treasurers, controllers, cashiers, auditors and other financial executives from financial institutions and businesses serving the financial services industry. Our mission is to enhance both the technical and managerial skills of our members and others within the industry and, as a result, to improve the performance of individual financial institutions.
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Professional Associations: Financial Planning

National Association of Financial and Estate Planning
The NAFEP is a private association created for the purpose of developing the best financial, estate and business planning tools available. Members of NAFEP are professionals and experts in a variety of legal, estate, financial and business disciplines. NAFEP has a unique and prestigious Board of Advisors to guide the Association with: expert advice and consulting in estate planning, business planning, the law, taxation, accounting and finance. In addition, the Board provides close scrutiny of NAFEP products and services, and may work directly with specific clients in certain cases.
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International Association of Financial Planners
The only industry-wide organization that provides an exchange of knowledge and experience among professionals in all areas of the financial services industry, IAFP has more than 17,000 members. IAFP brings together individuals and companies committed to using the financial planning process to help people achieve their financial goals.
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Institute of Certified Financial Planners
The ICFP is a professional association of more than 15,000 CFP© licensees and candidate members nationwide. Certified Financial Planner® members adhere to a code of ethics, continuing education and disclosure requirements in the interest of providing the highest level of professional service to their clients.
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Canadian Association of Financial Planners
The Canadian Association of Financial Planners is the membership organization of Canada's most credible and qualified financial planning professionals. CAFP Members are Canada's real financial planners. Our Code of Ethics requires that the client's best interests must always come first. We invite you to find out more about our Members and our organization.
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Professional Associations: Legal

American Bar Association - ABANET
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Federal Bar Association
As the professional organization for private and government lawyers and judges involved in federal practice, the FBA has offered an unmatched array of leadership opportunities and services for over 75 years. Represents some 15,000 federal practice attorneys and judges.
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The Law Society
The Law Society of England and Wales provides information and services to solicitors, legal practitioners and the public here. Includes details on services and links to other legal organizations. Read their text information under "Members".
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Atlanta Bar Association
Formed in 1888, the Atlanta Bar Association is the largest metropolitan bar association in the Southeast and one of the most active in the country in serving its members, the Atlanta community and legal system. The Association has 5,500 members in the nine-county area of metropolitan Atlanta. Seventeen Sections of specialty areas of law and interest provide members with opportunities to participate in educational programs, community activities and social activities. Over 40 committees work on projects to better the bar, the community, and the profession. Over 10,000 referrals are made each year by the Lawyer Referral and Information Service which was formed in 1955 to assist the public in locating attorneys who are qualified to handle all areas of law.
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Los Angeles County Bar Association
The Los Angeles County Bar Association is the largest local voluntary bar association in the nation with a membership of more than 24,000 attorneys. It is extensively engaged in advancing the administration of justice, promoting many public service projects and furthering the education of its lawyers.
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Alameda County Bar Association
The Alameda County Bar Association is the fifth largest local voluntary bar association in the state of California with a membership of over 2600 individuals. It is deeply involved in ethically promoting education and discussion in various fields of law, endeavoring to improve the law by legislation or otherwise, to support procedures for the fair orderly and effective administration of justice, and to further the ideals and principles of justice and equity and their ready availability with equal application under the law. This is accomplished through numerous public service projects and programs.
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Association of the Bar of the City of New York
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York is a nonprofit voluntary membership organization of over 20,000 lawyers and judges in the New York area, throughout the United States and over fifty other countries. Founded in 1870, the Association seeks to influence public policy on matters of local, national and international importance; promotes the effective administration of justice; works to uphold the ethics in the practice of law; engages in public service activities; and provides services to its members and to the legal profession.
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Asian/Pacific Bar Associations
A comprehensive site listing the names and contact information for many Asian Pacific Bar Associations that are not yet online.
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Connecticut Bar Association
Voluntary, not-for-profit association of lawyers dedicated to advancing the principles of law and justice.
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New Hampshire Bar Association
The New Hampshire Bar Association (NHBA) was founded in 1873 and today includes over 4,100 attorneys representing firms large and small from Coos County to the Seacoast. Membership today in NHBA is mandatory for all attorneys wishing to practice law in New Hampshire. The NHBA provides a number of services that allow clients to find the attorney best suited to a particular need.
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Florida Bar Association Online
The Florida Bar offers several services to help people find an attorney for access to the justice system. The pamphlet How to find a lawyer in Florida provides an overview of what to consider when selecting an attorney. The pamphlets on the Lawyer Referral Service, and the Legal Aid offices in Florida detail the cost and services of these options for finding an attorney. Lawyers may also be selected from a list of certified attorneys, those members of the Bar who have completed training and testing in a particular area of law. Please see the Certification portion of our site to obtain a description of the 14 areas in which attorneys may be certified.
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Indiana State Bar Association
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Kentucky Bar Association
This site contains information for both members and nonmembers; but does not contain lists of attorneys or provide referrals to any attorney. However, they will provide the names and telephone numbers of "local" lawyer referral services as well as information on how to contact Legal Service and Pro Bono programs for those who cannot afford an attorney for civil legal problems. Additionally, you'll find information concerning the attorney discipline process and the Client Security Fund for people who have suffered monetary losses by dishonest attorneys.
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King County Bar Association
Highlights the legal community in the Puget Sound Area.
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National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association is the national association of Asian Pacific American attorneys, judges, law professors, and law students that strives to be a national network for its members and affiliates. Formed in 1988 by representatives of 23 APA bar associations from around the country, NAPABA advocates for the legal needs and interests of the APA community. NAPABA represents over 5000 attorneys in 35 local APA bar associations, whose practice settings range from solo practices to large firms, corporations, legal services organizations, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies. Through its network of committees, NAPABA is in the forefront of national and local activities in the areas of civil rights reform, combating anti-immigrant backlash and hate crimes, increasing the diversity of the Federal and State judiciaries, and professional development.
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North Carolina Bar Association
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Palo Alto Bar Association
PAABA is unique in that its geographical and professional area straddles two counties and two county bar associations. It was formed to provide a more personal and more responsive professional association for attorneys in the mid-peninsula, ranging from Menlo Park, Atherton, Woodside, East Palo Alto and Portola Valley, through Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View.
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Tennessee Bar Association
Since 1881, the Tennessee Bar Association has worked to provide Tennessee attorneys with a competitive edge. It has opposed government regulation of the legal profession. It continues to seek modernization of state laws and regulations. For example, a TBA member capably represents the interests of the association at the State Capitol during each session of the General Assembly. Further, the TBA offers the largest range of programs of any continuing legal education provider in the state.

The TBA is the only organization in Tennessee representing the entire spectrum of the legal community, from plaintiff and defense attorneys to judges, government and legal services attorneys, and corporate counsel. A number of attorneys residing outside the state but retaining an interest in the legal profession in Tennessee are also TBA members.
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Wisconsin Bar Association
Offers substantive and practice-oriented materials for Wisconsin lawyers and law-related professionals.
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