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Welcome to the Polk County Bar Association's web site.
We are continually building our web site and appreciate your feedback on how to make the site most valuable to our members and the community.
Polk County is home of Des Moines, the state capitol and our Association is the largest local bar association in the state of Iowa. The Association provides continuing legal education, social and professional opportunities to our members and a number of services to the community including running the Mediation Project at the Polk County Courthouse and through a separate charitable organization, the Polk County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project.
The Association's speaker's bureau is pleased to provide speakers without charge on a wide variety of legal topics. You may telephone or email us through this web site to set up a time for one of our speakers to address your group. The Association has also prepared a number of brochures on legal topics of interest to members of the community which may be accessed and downloaded from this web site.
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Nationally, May 1 is celebrated as Law Day. The Association annually sponsors a Law Day contest for area middle and high school students. This year's contest highlights 50th Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision - Brown v. Board of Education - the important decision that struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine to end segregation in public schools. At Law Day are the rules, prizes, and deadline for entries for this year's contest and a Power Point presentation of last year's Law Day contest winners.
The Association has produced videotapes approximately 60 minutes in length on various aspects of the law, including Workers Compensation/Employers Rights, The Courts/Lawyer-Client Relations, Business Formation/Debtor-Creditor, City-Citizen Relations/Landlord-Tenant, Elder Law, and Family Law. Copies of those videotapes have been supplied to public libraries in Polk County and are available for check out in accordance with policies established by the libraries.
The Polk County Bar Association strives to serve its members, the courts, and the public and appreciates your interest in us. I encourage you to contact me personally if you have any suggestions on how the Association can better achieve those goals. Your Bar Association staff can be reached at (515) 243-3904.
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