The Jacksonville Bar Association serves as the forum for our profession - willing to take action and try innovative ways to better serve our membership and the public in facing law-related community issues. Association membership is all inclusive, inspiring members to participate regularly in Bar activities. Activities are designed to promote the highest professionalism, unselfish service to the community, positive relations between the bench and the bar, and camaraderie among the members - ultimately, so that we all live up to the highest ideals of the profession at work and in the community. Organized on February 4, 1897 with 38 members, The Jacksonville Bar Association published its objectives in its original constitution, to maintain the honor and dignity of the profession; to regulate the practice and promote improvements in the law and methods of its administration; to cultivate professional ethics among its members; and to discuss legal topics of general interest. The Jacksonville Bar Association members enjoy continuing legal education seminars and lawyer referral services, the basic mission of the Jacksonville Bar Association remains to enhance the administration of law as well as the professional and social lives of its members. Now in its second century, The Jacksonville Bar Association continues its commitment to professionalism and service to the community