Who We Are

The Missouri Bar is the statewide organization to which all Missouri attorneys must belong. Currently, about 28,000 lawyers are members of The Missouri Bar.

Created in 1944 by order of the Supreme Court of Missouri, The Missouri Bar is an instrumentality of the state, not a private association. Its mission is to improve the legal profession, the administration of justice and the law on behalf of the public.

All policies and programs of The Missouri Bar are either developed or overseen by the bar’s Board of Governors, a 42-member group of elected lawyers who represent the members in their districts.

Lawyers participate in the bar in a variety of ways. They may seek to serve as members of the Board of Governors or the Young Lawyers’ Section Council; take part in the more than 50 substantive law committees; volunteer for service projects; choose to attend any of the hundreds of Continuing Legal Education programs produced by the bar each year; attend events, such as the Annual Meeting or Solo and Small Firm Conference; or volunteer to write articles for bar publications.