| 词条 | Alaska Bar Association |
| 释义 |
|name = Alaska Bar Association |image = |size = |caption = |map = |msize = |mcaption = |motto = |formation = {{start date|1955}}[1] |type = Non-Profit Mandatory Bar Association |headquarters = Anchorage, AK |location = United States |membership = 4,000+[2] |language = |leader_title = President |leader_name = Brent Bennett[3] Darrel J. Gardner, Immediate Past-President (2017-2018) |immediate past president |num_staff = |budget = |website = http://www.alaskabar.org }} The Alaska Bar Association is a mandatory bar association responsible to the Alaska Supreme Court for the admission and discipline process of attorneys for the State of Alaska. The association is governed by a Board of Governors with nine attorneys elected by the Bar's members and three public members appointed by the governor of Alaska. The Bar offers Continuing Legal Education and other member and public services, and currently has more than 4,000 members. The association is also responsible for administering the bar examination for the State of Alaska.[2] The Bar has several membership categories, the most common of which are active in-state; active out-of-state; Inactive, senior, and retired.[4] HistoryThe Alaska Bar Association began in 1886 as an informal gentleman's club in Juneau. Admission depended upon the votes of the board of directors and the payment of a dollar fee. The club did not address matters involving alleged attorney misconduct. The most severe discipline was not disbarment or suspension from the practice of law, but expulsion from the club, and the only action certain to bring suspension or expulsion was non-adherence to the minimum fee schedule. In the absence of an independent, integrated bar association to look into potential lawyer misconduct, all such cases went directly to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation, then to the grand jury for indictment and finally to the territorial court for adjudication. A high profile discipline case in the early 1950s, United States v. Stringer,[5] hit a nerve among Alaska lawyers. The case demonstrated how little power lawyers had in the territorial legal system; they were forced to have both their cases and professional conduct judged by the same jurist, which created intense concern over judicial bias and overreach. In 1955, the territorial legislature responded by introducing a bill creating a new bar association with the power to investigate disciplinary cases. The Alaska Integrated Bar Act of 1955 created the Alaska Bar Association, a territory-wide organization that would govern the profession.[6]The first Bar president, M.E. Monagle, was elected in 1955.[7] In the first 65 years of the association's history, there have only been eight Bar presidents who were actually from Alaska:[8]
Current StructureThe Board of Governors consists of twelve (12) members, nine (9) attorney members and three (3) non-attorney citizen members. The nine active members of the Alaska Bar Association are elected by their peers to govern the affairs of the association. Serving three year staggered terms, two attorneys represent the First Judicial District, which includes Juneau and southeast Alaska; four are from the Third Judicial District, which includes Anchorage, the Mat-Su Valley, and the Kenai Peninsula; two members serve the Second and Fourth Judicial Districts, which includes Fairbanks and northwest Alaska; and one member is elected at-large. Any vacancy is filled by the board through appointment until the next election. The three citizen members are appointed by the governor and are subject to legislative confirmation. These public members also serve staggered three year terms. The board generally meets five to six times a year at dates and places designated by the president of the association; special meetings may be called by the president or three members of the Board of Governors. Annually, typically in May, the board selects a president-elect, and elects a vice president, secretary, and treasurer. The association employs an executive director to carry out the purposes and functions of the Bar. FinancingThe Alaska Bar Association is a non-profit organization funded by mandatory license fees imposed upon Alaska lawyers by order of the Alaska Supreme Court. The association collects additional revenue through proceeds from on-line and live Continuing Legal Education courses; a lawyer referral service that is free to the public but charges a fee to participating lawyers; and managed investment income. Services to LawyersThe association implements the rules for admitting persons to the practice of law by means of biannual bar exams and annual relicensing. Bar Counsel investigates and prosecutes claims of lawyer misconduct, as specified in the Alaska Bar Rules and Alaska Rules of Professional Responsibility. Discipline orders are ultimately imposed by the Alaska Supreme Court. The association provides a variety of member services:
Services to the PublicThe Alaska Bar Association provides numerous important services to the public:[16]
Alaska Bar FoundationIn October 1972, the Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar Association established the Alaska Bar Foundation as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation in accordance with the laws of the State of Alaska. The Alaska Bar Foundation strives to foster and maintain the honor and integrity of the profession of the law. The Foundation is governed by seven trustees. The Foundation administers the IOLTA program, in accordance with rules established by the Supreme Court of the State of Alaska. By voluntarily joining IOLTA, attorneys’ unsegregated trust accounts generate interest income, which is sent to the Alaska Bar Foundation to be used for grants to programs that provide civil legal services to indigent and low income Alaskans. [17] See Also
References1. ^ Integrated Bar Act, Alaska Sess. Laws 196; Alaska Statute 08.08.010 {{State bar associations navbox}}{{Authority control}}2. ^1 [https://www.alaskabar.org/ Alaska Bar Association Welcome] 3. ^https://alaskabar.org/for-lawyers/board-of-governors/listing-board-members-officers/ 4. ^https://alaskabar.org/for-lawyers/status-information-dues/status-information/ 5. ^124 F. Supp. 705 (D. Alaska 1954), rev'd 233 F.2d 947 (9th Cir. 1956) 6. ^http://jukebox.uaf.edu/site7/sites/default/files/documents/ak_law_review_article.pdf 7. ^https://alaskabar.org/wp-content/uploads/President-historical-list.pdf 8. ^https://alaskabar.org/wp-content/uploads/President-historical-list.pdf 9. ^https://alaskabar.org/ethics-discipline/adopted-ethics-opinions-topical/ 10. ^https://alaskabar.org/for-lawyers/lawyer-referral-service/ 11. ^https://alaskabar.org/sections-committees/lawyers-assistance-committee/ 12. ^ https://alaskabar.org/for-lawyers/solace-program/ 13. ^ https://alaskabar.org/sections-committees/section-webpages/ 14. ^https://alaskabar.org/for-lawyers/alaska-bar-rag/ 15. ^https://issuu.com/alaskabarrag 16. ^https://alaskabar.org/for-the-public/ 17. ^https://alaskabar.org/for-lawyers/bar-foundationiolta/ 4 : American state bar associations|Organizations established in 1972|Organizations based in Alaska|1972 establishments in Alaska |
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