History
The organization, which is based in the United States, was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1961 by four lawyers (Paul Bernard, Gerrit P. Groen, Henry Luke Banks, and Elmer Johnson) who had met at a convention of the American Bar Association in 1959 to pray together.
Since its founding, it has grown to include 90 attorney chapters, 165 law school chapters, and four unincorporated ministry divisions.
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