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YLD Comedy Night May 10 Join the YLD for a night of laughs on Saturday, May 10 featuring comedians Lynne Koplitz, and Doug Benson of VH1's "Best Week Ever," at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Tickets are available at the door for $70, and include open bar, heavy hors d'oeuvres, a silent auction and a DJ. For sponsorship information, please contact Brian Chacker. To donate items to the silent auction, please contact Abbie DuFrayne. All proceeds benefit the Philadelphia Bar Foundation. | read more Bar Association Seeking Staff Attorney for Policy and PlanningThe Philadelphia Bar Association is seeking a Staff Attorney for Policy and Planning. This individual is responsible for providing professional substantive support to all those Committees and Sections of the Association that are not otherwise presently staffed. The individual will also serve as the individual responsible for coordinating the monthly Cabinet and Board of Governors meetings. | read moreTwo New Video Podcasts Added to Bar Association Leadership Series A pair of new video podcasts have been added to the Bar Association's Leadership Video Series. The Leadership Video Series features prominent Philadelphians discussing their roles as leaders, revealing who inspired them as leaders, and outlining what kind of leadership the city needs right now. The new interviews feature Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey and Councilwoman Maria D. Quiñones-Sánchez. Both newcomers to the their roles — Ramsey recently took the reins of the city's police department following a six-year stint as head of the Washington, D.C. police, and Quinones began her first term as the 7th District Councilwoman in January — they spoke to the Bar Association about their leadership styles and about leaders who have inspired them. | read more On Your Marks: Association's Annual 5K Run/Walk Set for May 18 More than 700 runners and walkers will make their way along Martin Luther King Drive on Sunday, May 18 at 8:30 a.m. for the Association's 29th Annual 5K Run/Walk. The event will include both a 5-kilometer (3.1 miles) run and a 5-kilometer walk, both of which can be entered by individuals. Legal and company teams can enter the team competition in the run. Legal and company teams can enter the team competition in the run. For Association members who sign up as members of the Bar, your finishing time will be recorded in both the open competition and the Bar competition. This will allow you the chance to win a medal in your age group in both competitions. | read more Pratt to Be Honored at Black Tie and Sneaker Gala May 22 Chancellor A. Michael Pratt and the Philadelphia Bar Association will be honored for community contributions at the Dawn Staley Foundation Seventh Annual Black Tie and Sneaker Gala on Thursday, May 22. Individual tickets are $200 and two tickets are $300. All proceeds benefit the After School Program of the Dawn Staley Foundation. The gala (dress shoes optional) will be held at Cescaphe Ballroom, 923 N. 2nd St., from 7 to 10 p.m. For ticket and sponsorship information, call (215) 457-1270. Association Backs Justice Castille on Interim Appellate Court AppointmentsIn a letter sent to Pennsylvania Senate Republican leaders, Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor A. Michael Pratt expressed the 13,000-member Association's strong endorsement of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille's call for action on interim appointments to the Pennsylvania appellate courts. | read moreRegister Online for Bar Association and School District A.C.E. Program Advancing Civics Education (A.C.E.) is a program launched by the Philadelphia Bar Association in partnership with public schools in Philadelphia to provide supplemental civics education — in areas such as fundamental principles of citizenship, democracy and dispute resolution — to ninth-grade public school students. An understanding of civics, legal systems and civic participation is vital to the success of future generations. A.C.E. brings civics to life for Attorneys can now register online for this program here. | read more Notice to Philadelphia Bar Association MembersPursuant to Section 1100 of the Philadelphia Bar Association bylaws, notice is hereby given to all members of the Philadelphia Bar Association that the following amendments to the bylaws of the Philadelphia Bar Association were considered at the March 27, 2008 Board of Governors meeting and was approved for submission to the members at the June Quarterly meeting to take place on Monday, June 30, 2008 at Noon at the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue. | read moreOrder The Legal Directory 2008 now! The Legal Directory 2008 and The Legal Directory Online are now available. We've added hundreds of new attorneys, making this edition the most comprehensive ever produced. As in past years, each copy of The Legal Directory 2008 comes with a free subscription to The Legal Directory Online! Online listings for both attorneys and law firms are updated year-round, making this an ever-changing, useful resource. The Legal Directory Online also features links to court rules, area bar associations and more! All are only a mouse-click away. | read more Women in the Profession Summit at CLE Conference Center June 18The Women in the Profession Committee will hold its first Women in the Profession Summit at The CLE Conference Center on Wednesday, June 18. The summit will focus, in part, on the best practices for the retention and promotion of women lawyers and feature a keynote address by Charisse Lillie, vice president of human resources for Comcast Corporation and senior vice president of human resources for Comcast Cable. Summit attendees will receive two substantive and two ethics CLE credits. | read moreUrban League's Morial to Address Bar June 30 Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans, will deliver the Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Public Interest Lecture at the Association's Monday,June 30 Quarterly Meeting and Luncheon. A lifelong champion of individual rights, Judge Higginbotham had a legal career that spanned nearly half a century. Since Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, delivered the first Higginbotham lecture in 1999, notables such as Juan Williams, Charles J. Ogletree, Chaka Fattah, Cornel West, Kweisi Mfume and Gwen Ifill have filled the role. New members of the Association's 50-, 60-, 65- and 70-Year Clubs will also be honored at the event. The Year Clubs recognize attorneys who have been practicing law for 50 years or more. | read more Bench-Bar Annual Conference Registration Open Registration is now open for the Association's 2008 Bench-Bar and Annual Conference on Sept. 19-21 at Bally's Atlantic City. This year's conference is expected to bring together more than 500 lawyers and judges from the Philadelphia area for three days of CLE programming that lets practitioners and the judiciary share ideas and best practices. The theme of this year's conference is "The Sound of Philadelphia." | read more
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