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Bar or BAR may refer to: Food and drink * Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages * Candy bar * Chocolate bar Science and technology * Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment * Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of cloud * Bar (unit), a unit of pressure * BAR domain, a protein domain * Bar stock, of metal * Sandbar Computing * Bar (computer science), a placeholder * Base Address Register in PCI * Bar, a mobile phone form factor#Bar, mobile phone form factor * Bar, a type of graphical control element Law * Bar (law), the legal profession * Bar association * Bar examination Media and entertainment * Bar (Croatian TV series), ''Bar'' (Croatian TV series) * Bar (Czech TV series) * Bar (dance), Turkey * Bar (music), a segment * Bar (Polish TV series) * Bar (Slovenian TV series) * ''Bay Area Reporter'', a newspaper * ''Biblical Archaeology Review'', a magazine Places * Bar (Martian crater) * Bar, Rutog County, Tibet, China * Bar (river), France * Bar, Corrèze, France ...
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Bar Association
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing to separate the area in which court business is done from the viewing area for the general public. Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members; in many cases, they are both. In many Commonwealth jurisdictions, the bar association comprises lawyers who are qualified as barristers or advocates in particular, versus solicitors (see '' bar council''). Membership in bar associations may be mandatory or optional for practicing attorneys, depending on jurisdiction. Etymology The use of the term '' bar'' to mean "the whole body of lawyers, the legal profession" comes ultimately from English custom. In the early 16th ...
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