MBA Services

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  Ethics
  Need help with an ethics issue? Free ethical advice is an invaluable benefit of MBA membership.

  The MBA Committee on Professional Ethics will help you resolve specific ethical concerns that arise in your practice. To take advantage of this service, please email your request, including a brief summary of the facts raising the ethical issue, your interpretation of the issue, and whether the request is urgent in nature to MBA Sections and Ethics Administrator Jean Stevens, or visit the MBA Web site.

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  FAB
  

  The MBA's Fee Arbitration Board (FAB) program provides voluntary binding arbitration to resolve fee disputes between attorneys and their clients and between attorneys. Fee arbitration is an ideal alternative to the Small Claims, District, or Superior Courts. The arbitrators are volunteer attorneys who are members of the MBA or trained arbitration professionals. For more information on this program, visit the MBA Web site or e-mail MBA Senior Programs Manager Marc A. D'Antonio.

• Legislative Advocacy
  

  Would you like to work on crafting positions on legislation, court rules and other policy issues? Join fellow MBA members to develop policy positions that improve the administration of justice in the commonwealth.

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  LRS
  

  The MBA's Lawyer Referral Service is one of the largest referral services of its kind, making more than 25,000 referrals each year to its 1,000 attorney members throughout the state. That makes joining the LRS a sound choice for MBA members. Your membership with LRS not only helps the public, it also offers you the opportunity to expand your client base.

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  MBA Business Center
  

  Away from your office and looking to check your e-mail? Print a document? Check out the MBA's new business center.

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  MBA Classifieds
  

  Looking to share your office space? Need to hire a law clerk? Interested in selling your home? Post a FREE online ad today.

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  MBA Forums
  

  The MBA Forums offer a range of tools for MBA members to more easily communicate with one another, including the ability to post messages for all members to access, create individual profiles, send private messages to other users, subscribe to unique threads and post URL links. Start a conversation today – have your MBA member number available and visit http://www.massbar.org/forums.

• MBA Mentor Program
  Whether you are a seasoned attorney seeking advice on an unfamiliar area of the law or a recent law school graduate with questions about your career path, the MBA Mentor Program is a phone call away.
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  MBA "My Resources" page
  

  Log-in to the MBA Web site and check out the new way to customize and find relevant practice tools and information.

• Room Rentals
  

  MBA members may rent conference rooms at our headquarters in Boston's Downtown Crossing or at the MBA's satellite Western Mass. office in Springfield, located directly across from the Hampden County Courthouse.

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  Sections
  Are you a member of an MBA section or practice group? Join one or more of the MBA’s 16 sections, specialty groups that focus on a unique area of law, and gain many valuable advantages of membership including the opportunity to build a network of contacts with key lawyers and experts in the field, receive reduced rates for section-sponsored, continuing legal education seminars, and seek appointment to leadership roles in the MBA. If you are already a section member then join a practice group. Visit the MBA Web site for a current listing of MBA sections and practice groups.