Member Benefits

OVERVIEW

Lawyer Referral and Information Service:

The BABC's Lawyer Referral and Information Service is the only ABA Certified Lawyer Referral and Information Service in Maryland and one of few Certified across the country. The LRIS receives over 20,000 inquiries each year.

Publications:

The BABC, and its Young Lawyers' Division, produce several publications, videos, legal handbooks, and CLE materials, including:

  • The City Bar Report (The BABC's Newsletter published in The Daily Record on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month)
  • The Bar Association of Baltimore City E-News (monthly publications emailed to BABC members)
  • Elderly Legal Rights Handbook
  • Taking Control: A Legal Guide to Health Care and Related Services for Individuals Living with HIV Disease in Maryland (Copies of the Elderly Legal Rights and HIV Handbooks are available free of charge (pick-up or postage required)

Programs/Social Events:

The BABC affords all practitioners the ability to involve themselves on a professional and personal level with other attorneys and members of the bench by sponsoring many events throughout the year, including:

  • Annual Meeting
  • Past Presidents’ Lunch
  • Holiday Party
  • Annual Memorial Services
  • Golf Outing Fundraiser sponsored by the Baltimore Bar Foundation, Inc.
  • Bull Roasts and Crab Feasts
  • Ethics Hotline
  • Fee Arbitration Program
  • Low cost continuing legal education and free monthly Milton Talkin Lecture Series
  • YLD Breakfast with the Bench Series
  • Review and recommendation of judicial candidates
  • Judicial Administration/Bench Bar Relations
  • Circuit Court Pre-trial Settlement Program
  • Positions on legislation affecting the practice of law
  • Lawyer Referral and Information Service
  • Group Insurance Programs

Public Service:

  • Lawyer Referral and Information Service
  • Legal Services to the Elderly
  • Access to Justice Program (reduced fee legal services)
  • Lawyer/Doctor/Teacher Partnership Against Drugs
  • Law Links Program
  • Holiday Party for Children Living in Shelters
  • Community fair information booths
  • Law Week activities
  • Law Day Program for Seniors