By promoting continuing legal education and collegiality within the desert legal community, the Desert Bar Association offers its members excellent value and opportunities to advance, both in their own practices and as a united body of legal professionals. Our programs include outreach to the entire community, including high school students and mature adults, to educate local residents about legal rights, issues and processes.
The Desert Bar Association is also fully inclusive of non-legal professionals who desire to network with legal professionals. We have a long and wonderful history of welcoming professionals into our community who are only tangentially related to the legal profession, such as money management and banking professionals, as well as other vendors.
WHAT WE DO
Professional Development & Networking
The primary function of the Desert Bar Association is to build strong connections among, and support, members of the legal profession in the Coachella Valley: Attorneys, Judges, and other professionals such as paralegals and law librarians, who are integral parts of the legal system and community.
By promoting continuing legal education and collegiality within the desert legal community, the Desert Bar Association offers its members excellent value and opportunities to advance, both in their own practices and as a united body of legal professionals. Our programs include outreach to the entire community, including high school students and mature adults, to educate local residents about legal rights, issues and processes.
The Desert Bar Association is also fully inclusive of non-legal professionals who desire to network with legal professionals. We have a long and wonderful history of welcoming professionals into our community who are only tangentially related to the legal profession, such as money management and banking professionals, as well as other vendors.
Testimonial
Brian Harnik
The Coachella Valley is one of the best places to practice law. The Desert Bar Association is a huge part of the reason we have a collegial, professional and respectful legal community. Through the DBA, our lawyers interact with each other, with members of the bench, with staff and others. As our profession continues to lose the in person connections with fewer in person hearings, trials and proceedings, the DBA remains one of the cornerstones to preserving the interpersonal relationships that is so critical to maintaining integrity and the highest standards in our profession. I am a proud past president of the DBA, and have been a member for more than thirty years. I encourage you to join if not yet a member, and actively participate if you are.
PREMIUM MEMBERS
Business Law, Real Estate Law, Civil Litigation, Common Interest Development Law,Expert Witness, General Law, HOA Law, Litigation, Mediator, Property Law
G & G Plaza Building
40-004 Cook Street Ste # 3
Palm Desert, CA 92211
760.340.1515
Premium Members
Premium Membership includes increased visibility on the DBA website and upgraded benefits, including a photo of the attorney in the membership directory and a dedicated page on the DBA website, with expanded bio and contact information.
Regular Members
This level of membership is for members admitted to the practice of law for more than five (5) years.
Other Membership Types
Other membership types include new attorney, public law attorney, affiliate member, law student, and ex-officio.
Apply for Membership
The Desert Bar Association currently offers several levels of membership for attorneys who are admitted to practice law, in addition to memberships for judges, law students currently attending law school, and Affiliate memberships for those who are neither admitted to practice law, nor law students, but whose professions place them in close association with the legal community. These Affiliate members include professions like paralegals and law librarians, court reporters, money managers, bankers, economists and other researchers in fields affected by the legal system, and vendors who provide relevant products and services.
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Keeping Members in the Loop
One important aspect of the Desert Bar Association’s mission is to help its member attorneys stay current on issues like proposed changes to court rules and processes, issues that call for comment from the public or from interested parties, updates to fees, and new programs that may impact our members’ practices. By bringing such time-sensitive matters directly to our members’ attention, we offer them the opportunity to play a key role in the ongoing evolution of legal practice, and help ensure that they’ll always be armed with the latest information on relevant issues.