Legal Specialization Websites in All 50 States

Links To Websites For State Sponsored Legal Certification Organizations

Boards of Legal Specialization (the first of which was created in 1983 - in North Carolina), serve to establish programs by which qualified lawyers can become certified as specialists in a particular area of the law. This designation helps identify to the public lawyers who have demonstrated special knowledge, skill, and proficiency in a specific field.

State sanctioned certification programs currently exist in only 17 US states. And only 9 of those states offer a specialization program in the area of family law. Below is a list of each Legal Specialization programs in the United States, and a link to each program's website. The list is in the following format:

• [State Name] - [Legal Specialization Website] - [Family Law Specialists (if Available)]

State Legal Specialization and Family Law Specialization Websites

• Alabama - None - None
• Alaska - None - None
• Arizona - Legal Specialization - Family Law Specialists
• Arkansas - None - None
• California -  Legal Specialization - Family Law Specialists
• Colorado - None - None
• Connecticut - Legal Specialization - None 
• Delaware - None - None
• Florida - Legal Specialization - None
• Georgia - None - None
• Hawali - None - None
• Idaho - None - None
• Illinois - None - None
• Indiana - None - None
• Iowa - None - None
• Kansas - None - None
• Kentucky - None - None
• Lousiana - Legal Specialization - Family Law Specialists 
• Maine - None - None
• Maryland - None - None
• Massachusetts - Legal Specialization - None
• Michigan - None - None
• Minnesota - Legal Specialization - None 
• Mississippi - None - None
• Missouri - None - None
• Montana - None - None
• Nebraska - None - None
• Nevada - Legal Specialization - None  
• New Hampshire - None - None 
• New Jersey - Legal Specialization - None
• New Mexico - Legal Speicalization - Family Law Specialists 
• New York -  Legal Specialization - None
• North Carolina - Legal Specialization - Family Law Specialists 
• North Dakota - None - None
• Ohio - Legal Specialization - Family Law Specialists
• Oklahoma - None - None
• Oregon - None - None
• Pennsylvania - None - None
• Rhode Island - None - None
• South Carolina - Legal Specialization - Family Law Specialists
• South Dakota - None - None
• Tennessee - Legal Specialization - Family Law Specialists
• Texas - Legal Specialization - Family Law Specialists 
• Utah - None - None
• Vermont - None - None
• Virginia - None - None
• Washington - None - None
• Washington D.C. - None - None
• West Virginia - None - None
• Wisconsin - Legal Specialization - None
• Wyoming - None - None