Program areas at AAJ
Public affairs - advocate on behalf of the trial lawyer profession and the right to trial by jury on federal legislative and regulatory level and monitor the same on the state legislative level.
National campaign support - the national campaign support represents the aaj pac, which is a nonprofit, unincorporated multi-candidate political action committee that is not affiliated with any political party or candidate. The aaj pac solicits, accepts, and receives voluntary and personal political contributions and makes distributions to support candidacies of selected individuals for federal elective public office, as well as authorized political committees. The aaj pac is a separate segregated fund exempt from tax on contributions under section 527, but subject to income tax on its investment income.
Membership services - offered to further the mission of the American Association for Justice, include the following:--conventions - information exchange through meetings and education held twice a year for members; more than 1,700 lawyers attend conventions--legal research - gathering case materials and decisions, verdicts and settlements, and state and federal legislative and regulatory activities affecting the trial law profession and sharing materials and knowledge among members--member groups and associated list servers - information exchange and sharing knowledge about the trial law profession through caucuses, 20 sections, and more than 100 litigation groups.--publications - trial magazine, which provides timely, relevant, and practical news and information that our members can apply in their trial law profession, sent to all members as well as some judges and law libraries, published in print monthly; trial news, the magazine's twice-monthly e-newsletter, goes to all aaj members; practice-specific law reporters, which provide case facts, decisions, settlements and verdicts, and experts, published in print bimonthly and online monthly; and, member group newsletters, covering legislative issues, case developments, practice tips, and trial techniques, delivered online two to four times a year.