About Federal Legal Associations

Federal Legal Associations are put in place to help those in the legal field to communicate with and educate each other. There are various organizations throughout the United States and around the world. Many federal legal association members are volunteers.

Facts

The Federal Bar Association is made up of 1,500 federal lawyers and 1,200 federal judges. The functions of the FBA are to keep its members up-to-date on all federal issues, provide scholarship opportunities, give lawyers and judges the means to interact socially and professionally, monitor federal issues that have an impact on the courts and lawyers and promote ethical conduct as well as high professionalism standards.

The Federal Communications Bar Association has been in existence since 1936 and is a volunteer organization. The FCBA consists of government officials, consultants, lawyers, law students, engineers and economists. Members of the FCBA help to develop both information technology laws and communications laws. Most of FCBA's members work in Washington D.C. There are regional chapters of the FCBA in New York, New England, Atlanta, Northern California, Texas, Florida, the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest. The benefits that the FCBA offers to its members are training for communication professionals and new lawyers, opportunities to network with others in the field, and developmental seminars covering such topics as technical issues, regulatory developments and economic analysis of telecommunications and media. They also publish The Federal Communications Law Journal The FCBA consists of over 3,000 members.