Lawbeat: Bar associations seek revival

ALBANY – For generations of attorneys, joining a bar association was just something a lawyer did.That changed when the Internet and social media provided new avenues for lawyers to network for business and social reasons. Fewer attorneys joined bar associations, including the New York State Bar Association, which saw its New York membership percentage plummet from 55.2 percent in 2001 to 38.6 percent in 2017.And the trend impacted smaller bar associations across the state, much like it did