[Seaplaner]

I'm not an attorney, however I do wonder should not the New Yorkian Bar Assn inquire and opine on this?

Maybe American Bar Association?

Dunno, maybe some legal minds hereabouts can clear this up for me.

[rodguy911]

https://www.law.com/2019/04/30/amid-shrinking-membership-aba-president-touts-new-dues-structure-and-focus/?slreturn=20240421070756

From what I hear many attorneys don't join the bar any more. Appears its been compromised as well.

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From the link:

ABA leadership signed off on the overhaul last August amid mounting challenges. It has lost about 56,000 dues-paying members in the past 10 years and fewer than 200,000 of its approximately 424,000 members pay dues.

Less than 13 percent of the nation’s lawyers are dues-paying members.

The associations’ general budget declined by 22 percent between 2014 and 2018, and last year it projected an additional $15 million annual loss in dues revenue without making changes. The changes are expected to result in short-term financial losses that will recover in time with membership gains.