The Madras Advocates' Association has a hoary tradition. Started in 1889, a hundred years ago "for the purpose of mutual cooperation and a better safeguarding of the interests of the profession", the association has well and truly fulfilled its objectives. It always strives to maintain the high traditions of the Bar and a very high standard of professional conduct. The cordial relation between the Bench and the Bar in this state is in no small measure due to collective wisdom of the Advocates' Association of which the judges themselves were members