A crisis for a Bar Association can take a very wide variety of forms. A voluntary-membership bar can start to haemorrhage members, for many different reasons, with financial and credibility risks to its very survival unless the causes of the crisis are effectively addressed. A regulatory bar can face a crisis of public confidence and consequent Government proposals to remove its regulatory powers. A bar can be subjected to a successful cyber-attack or a serious fire at its headquarters. A reputational crisis can engulf a bar or its members with deeply damaging effects in terms of public esteem. A bar can find itself on collision course with government if it publicly opposes ‘reforms’ that may undermine the incomes of lawyers, the rights of citizens or the rule of law itself. A crisis may be minor or major, but when one arrives it is likely to test the skill and resilience of a bar leader like nothing else. How you handle a crisis can define you and your organisation. Are there common themes and lessons to be learned from the variety of crisis experiences that bars have endured over recent years? A distinguished panel of speakers from a variety of bars will share their crisis experiences and what they have learned.