Welcome to the Polk County Bar Association's website. We
are continually building our website 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 website
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
website.
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
PowerPoint 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) 280-9571 or
by e-mail.
Sincerely,
Susan A. Low
