What is The Mississippi Bar?
{{Infobox Organization |name = The Mississippi Bar |type = Legal Society |headquarters = [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]], [[Mississippi|MS]] |location = United States |membership = 10,000 in 2012 (3,000 out of state)<ref name=martindale>{{Citation |url=http://www.martindale.com/Professional_Development/Bar_Associations/US_State/Mississippi.aspx|title=Mississippi Bar Overview |publisher=Martindale Hubbell |access-date=2012-08-30}}</ref> |website = http://www.msbar.org/ }} The '''Mississippi Bar''' is the required group that attorneys in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Mississippi]] must join. ==History == The Mississippi Bar was first a voluntary membership organization formed in 1821. However, this association ended four years later. It was restarted in 1886 but ended six years after that.<ref name=background>{{cite web| url=https://www.msbar.org/history.php| title=MS Bar History| publisher=The Mississippi Bar| access-date=2012-09-08| archive-date=2012-05-16| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516123537/https://www.msbar.org/history.php| url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1905 it was started again. During the [[Great Depression]], membership declined because the public did not thing that the lawyers were ethical. So, the main lawyers in Mississippi got the state to pass its Unified Bar Act in 1932, which led to the current required Bar assocation. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mississippi Bar}} [[Category:1932 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:20th-century establishments in Mississippi]]