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The purpose of the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) as a mandatory and integrated bar shall be to promote and assist the regulation of the practice of law, improve the quality of legal services, advance the science of jurisprudence, promote the administration of justice, uphold the honor of the Courts and of the profession of law including Louisiana's civil law system, and, generally, to promote the welfare of the profession in the State. The LSBA shall limit its activities to those that are constitutionally germane to its purposes, and shall limit its legislative activities to issues involving practice and procedure, the judicial system, access to the courts, the compensation of judges or lawyers, or the legal profession, and to responding to any requests for information received from the legislature. Any legislative positions on issues within the scope of this rule shall be voted upon and approved in advance by the LSBA's Board of Governors and thereafter published to members of the LSBA.
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