The Bar Association is a self-goveming and autonomous professional organization of lawyers. Its beginnings can be traced back to 1868 when it started out as the Carniolan Bar Association in Ljubljana, then continued its mission after the World War I as the Bar Association in Ljubljana, and was later re-named into the Advocates' Chamber in Ljubljana. After the World War II, it re-assumed the name of the Bar Association in Ljubljana, and finally entered the newly established state of Slovenia as the Slovene Bar Association. Throughout the different stages of the Slovene history and spanning over a period of more than a century, the association as a whole as well as its individual members have more or less been linked with politics, thus leaving the associations archive abundant in documents which are of infinite value for the Slovene identity and which deserve our utmost attention in the struggle to preserve them.