I've heard about the B.A.R. but unless it can be verified without a doubt I don't want to go down that road....any other ideas what it could mean?
The "bar" is the wooden railing in the courtroom that separates the spectator section from the section where the lawyers sit. When one is licensed to practice law, they are "admitted to the bar." Associations of lawyers in the United States are therefore called "bar associations." There is nothing sinister about it, honest.