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  The Lycoming Law Association was formed in 1870. 

   In 1961, Marshall R. Anspach, a member of the Lycoming County Bar, edited and compiled, Historical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; 1795-1960.  This volume was updated and reprinted by the Bar History Committee of the Lycoming Law Association in 1989.  The LLA has digitalized this volume.  Go to the Table of Contents to read the scanned text.

   History of Lycoming County Bench and Bar from History of Lycoming County Pennsylvania, edited by John F. Meginness; 1892. 

   Biographies of prominent Lycoming County attorneys, extracted from Genealogical and Personal History of Lycoming County, edited by John W. Jordan; 1906.

  On December 1, 1869, a group of Lycoming County attorneys petitioned Judge Gamble of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming County to incorporate the Lycoming Law Association.  The petition was granted on January 25, 1870.  Read the original document, as recorded in Deed Book 62, page 73.

  The original charter was amended by decree entered December 26, 1951, by Judge D. M. Larrabee, which is recorded in the Charter Book 4, pages 373-75.  Read the amendments.

  Officers and Members.   The first president of the Lycoming Law Association was Robert Fleming, in 1870.  The oldest living former LLA president is Robert C. Wise, who served in 1969.

  Lycoming Law Association Presidents from 1870 to the present.

  Search for Lycoming Law Association Officers by year of service or by name.

  List of the current membership, from the earliest to the most recent members.

  Resolutions memorializing the lives of departed members.