The
Christian Legal Society is a non-profit, non-denominational organization of
Christian lawyers,
judges, law professors, and law students whose members profess to follow the commandment of
Jesus to "do
justice with the love of
God." (
Luke 11:42;
Matthew 23:23.) The organization, which is based in the
United States, was founded in
Chicago, Illinois in
1961 by four lawyers who had met at a convention of the
American Bar Association[?] in
1959 to
pray together. It has since grown to include 90 attorney chapters, 165 law school chapters, and four unincorporated ministry divisions.