Celebrating a successful 2025

The year 2025 came to a close for the Birmingham Bar Association, Birmingham Bar Foundation, Volunteer Lawyers Birmingham, and the Legal Aid Society of Birmingham with their joint annual Membership Meeting (please review the BBA's 2025 Annual Report below). The event showcased several notable highlights, which include:

• The Birmingham Bar Association honored Leslie Barineau with the Lifetime Achievement Award and Nicole E. King with the L. Burton Barnes III Public Service Award.
• The Legal Aid Society’s Flame of Justice Award was bestowed upon to Alice Westery, Executive Director and Founder of Youth Towers.
• Andrew Nix, the Bar Association’s Election Official, revealed the winners of the Executive Committee election.
• We honored the memories of those Birmingham Bar Association members who passed in 2025.
• We celebrated the attorneys who have been Birmingham Bar Association members for 50 years.
• Fred Helmsing, Alabama State Bar President, delivered remarks about the initiatives that ASB has implemented.
• We heard a recap of 2025 from Outgoing President Bob Battle and a preview of 2026 from Incoming President Rebecca Beers.
• The presidents of the Birmingham Bar Association, the Birmingham Bar Foundation, and Volunteer Lawyers Birmingham each passed the gavel to their incoming presidents.

Please plan to join us on Friday, December 11, 2026, to celebrate what we promise will be a great 2026!

2025 Birmingham Bar Association's Annual Report: view document