About Us

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About Us: Mission

Our mission is to promote excellence in the legal profession and to facilitate equal access to justice.

About Us: What is the Alameda County Bar Association?

The Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA) is a professional membership association for lawyers and other members of the legal profession. The ACBA provides access to ongoing legal education, and promotes diversity and civil rights in the Alameda County legal community.

About Us: Public Services

We also provide access to legal services for residents of Alameda County.  Our Lawyer Referral Service connects members of the community with a pre-screened qualified Alameda County lawyer. The Volunteer Legal Services Corporation, a 501.c.3 nonprofit, provides more than 3,000 hours of free legal services to low-income residents of Alameda County each year. 

About Us: Leadership Firms

The Alameda County Bar Association is proud of the relationships it has built with law firms throughout the county. Working together, we have the opportunity to enhance the practice of law and the administration of justice in Alameda County. ACBA Leadership Firms is a program that recognizes and rewards those law firms of ten or more attorneys that have 100% membership in the ACBA (i.e., every one of the firm’s Alameda County attorneys is a member of the ACBA).

Being a Leadership Firm means:

• The firm’s name and logo appear on the ACBA website with live links to the firm’s website. The ACBA website has recently seen as many as 1,200 unique visitors in a single day; this is a great way for your firm to stand out in the crowded legal field;
• A substantive profile of each of the Leadership Firms will be featured on the ACBA blog throughout the year—another way to raise your firm’s visibility in the legal community;
• An annual Managing Partners Forum will give firm leaders an opportunity to gather and share the unique issues that face them; and
• The ACBA is exploring additional benefits to reward and recognize the Leadership Firms.

Bennett, Samuelsen, Reynolds, Allard, Cowperthwaite & Gelini in Alameda has the experience to handle municipal construction, civil litigation and insurance law matters.

Boornazian Jensen & Garthe was established in Oakland more than 35 years ago and provides high-quality legal representation throughout California in the areas of litigation, insurance counseling, and alternative dispute resolution.

Boxer Gerson Attorneys at Law LLP is an Oakland-based law firm nationally recognized for its trial work. Founded in 1977, the firm is dedicated to protecting the rights of Bay Area workers, elders, and families in the areas of personal injury, social security disability, and workers’ compensation.

Burnham Brown is one of Northern California’s pre-eminent business counseling and litigation firms, offering clients leading-edge expertise and strategic guidance. Click here for the profile of Burnham Brown that was published in the summer 2009 issue ofThe Bulletin.

Clapp Moroney | Bellagamba Vucinich | Beeman Scheley is an energetic civil litigation firm with 31 lawyers who practice throughout the greater Northern and Central California counties, providing clients with a wide array of expertise, advice and vast trial experience. Clapp Moroney enjoys its well-earned reputationfor aggressive, efficient, and result-driven case handling. It is the goal of all our attorneys to provide our clients with cost effective legal representation and superlative results, whether by settlement or trial.

Donahue Fitzgerald LLP conducts a highly diversified civil practice, providing a full range of litigation, business counseling, transactional, and alternative dispute resolution services. Click here for the profile of Donahue Fitzgerald LLP that was published in the spring 2009 issue of The Bulletin.

Gillin, Jacobson, Ellis, Larsen, and Lucey handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. The personal injury lawyers of GJEL Accident Attorneys are consistently rated among Northern California’s top attorneys by Martindale-Hubbell, Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers in America.

Kazan McClain Satterley & Greenwood has represented victims of asbestos exposure since 1974. The firm has been instrumental in shaping the law to ensure that asbestos victims have the opportunity to seek justice in the court system, including playing a crucial role in the development of trust funds to pay claims for bankrupt asbestos companies. All of the principals, and many of the associates, have extensive trial experience.

The law firm of Lombardi Loper & Conant, LLP located in Oakland, California practicing in employment law, insurance coverage, product liability, professional liability, construction, general litigation, and mediation services.

Clients come to Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP from a broad spectrum of industries, including small startups, major corporations, and public entities. They work hard to maintain the trust and personalized attention that their clients have come to expect. While Wendel, Rosen et al. has a strong regional name, they serve clients nationwide in many types of transactional and litigation matters.

Whiting, Fallon, Ross & Abel, LLP, devotes its practice exclusively to matrimonial matters, providing representation in all aspects of sophisticated and complex CA family law and domestic conflicts.

Join Us!

All firms of ten or more attorneys that enroll all of their Alameda County attorneys will enjoy the distinction of being a Leadership Firm. To get your firm on board or find out more, please contact the ACBA Membership & Education Manager Hadassah Hayashi at (510) 302-2200.