State Bar & Bar Associations
Aug. 6, 2026
Laura Farber will be the ABA's first Latina president. For now, she's listening.
The Pasadena employment lawyer declined to talk about criticisms of the ABA but said she hoped to spend time listening to the needs of America's lawyers
Laura Farber will inherit leadership of the American Bar Association at a pivotal moment.
The Pasadena employment lawyer was sworn in Tuesday as president-elect of the nation's largest voluntary bar organization just as it finds itself embroiled in fights over law school accreditation, diversity initiatives, judicial independence and the legal profession's response to President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting major law firms.
Farber, however, said sh...
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