To foster, maintain, promote, improve, or facilitate the provision of legal services for sick, aged, helpless or needy individuals or for other entities, and to study, promote, improve or facilitate the administration of justice.             

Tax Seminar

Each year, the Foundation of LAKC co-sponsors "Recent Developments in Federal Taxes" with the UMKC School of Law. This half-day CLE seminar is held each January and features a variety of national and regional speakers.

Whittaker Award

The Charles Evans Whittaker Award was established by the Lawyers Association in 1976 to honor Justice Whittaker who was a founder of the Association and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. This award is presented to those persons who, on a national and local basis, have promoted the welfare of the public and the bar, encouraged cordial relations among the members of the bar, advanced the science of jurisprudence, supported the administration of justice and aided and supported the courts in the administration of their rules governing the practice of law.



2009 Whittaker Award Honorees

Morris D. Davis
Former Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor
and
Alvin Sykes
Emmett Till Justice Campaign