About Us:

The Bar Association of Lehigh County is certified by the Continuing Legal Education Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania as a continuing legal education provider and regularly schedules seminars which update lawyers on current developments in varied areas of the law and which provide continuing legal education credit hours to meet Pennsylvania Supreme Court requirements. The Bar Association also is approved as a CE provider for Insurance Continuing Education.

In addition to programs on substantive law, practice and procedures, the seminar schedule includes ethics and professionalism topics. Most BALC programs are videotaped at the time of original presentation. These videotapes are shown at a subsequent date for the benefit of lawyers who may have missed the original presentations and are also available, upon request, for private, non-credit viewing.

As a convenience to attendees, many seminars are presented at the noon hour and include a buffet lunch. Videotape "cafeterias" are presented at the end of each of the three CLE compliance periods to assist attorneys who may need additional education hours by a specified date.

Seminars are held at the Bar Association's "Barristers' Club" headquarters building, located at 114 W. Walnut Street in Allentown, near center city and in easy reach of attorneys located in Lehigh and surrounding counties. In addition to presenting live seminars, the bar association also has the capability of providing a "downlink" for satellite seminars offered by other providers, such as the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the American Bar Association's American Law Network.. Enrollment is available to non-member attorneys, legal support staff and paralegal students as well as to BALC members.

Discounted seminar tuition rates for the bar association's programs are provided as a membership benefit to lawyers who are members of the Bar Association of Lehigh County