The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA) was founded in 1976 to provide Asian American attorneys in the San Francisco Bay Area with a vehicle for the unified expression of opinions and positions on matters of concern to all Asian American attorneys. AABA also encourages and promotes the professional growth of its members, serves the Asian American and minority community, and fosters the exchange of ideas and information among its members and the legal community at large.

AABA strives not only to meet the professional needs of our members, but to use our resources and expertise to serve the public interest through legal clinics and other programs. To learn more about AABA, click on About Us and Mission/History. Read about our committees and become a member. One of AABA’s main goals from its inception has been to promote the appointment of more Asian Pacific Americans to the judicial bench. Visit our APAs In The Judiciary Resource Page.

A Message from AABA’s President

As the summer season draws to a close, our committees have been keeping up the pace with an admirable amount of events that have benefited our membership and reinforced ties with our colleagues: - Hats off to the Social Committee for an impressive trio of events in the past few weeks. On June 25, the committee hosted the 2008 Kick-Off Mixer at the Ambassador. On July 31, members of AABA and the Asian Pacific Bar Association of Silicon Valley mingled at an AABA-APBASV mixer at Bistro 142 in Palo Alto. Last, but not least . . . Read More in the AABA Newsletter >>

AABA President Celia Lee

AABA Call to Community Service – 2007-08

By Edwin Prather, AABA Immediate Past President. While AABA, the first and largest local Asian American bar association in the nation, has come to serve thousands of lawyers on a variety of national and local issues, we must always be mindful of our history and our origins as a civil rights organization. We have deep roots in the Asian American community and were founded over three decades ago on Asian lawyers’ commitment to public service.  Read More >>

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