e-bar (Volume 9, No. 1)
Article Date: Tuesday, January 06, 2009
E-BAR BEGINS NINTH YEAR WITH NEW LOOK, FAMILIAR FORMAT
Please do not adjust your set, or better yet, your computer monitor. This is indeed e-bar, the electronic weekly newsletter of the North Carolina Bar Association. Welcome to Volume 9, signifying the start of e-bar’s ninth year and the incorporation of the first significant template redesign since its inception in 2001. We hope you will enjoy the new look as much as you have indicated you enjoy the electronic delivery of news and information that you can review in 60 seconds, a feature of e-bar that has not changed.
http://www.ncbar.org/news/1/3544/index.aspx
INCOMING GOVERNOR, LT. GOV. APPOINT NCBA MEMBERS
Gov.-Elect Beverly Perdue’s cabinet will include NCBA member Reuben Young who will serve Secretary of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. Linda Wheeler Hayes, the wife of NCBA member and Dunn attorney Gerald Wilton Hayes Jr., will serve as Secretary of the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Access the link below for details and updates leading up to Saturday’s inauguration. Incoming Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton has appointed fellow NCBA member Cynthia O’Neal to serve as his director of external affairs.
http://www.bevperdue.com/
IN MEMORIAM
Katherine Virginia Settle Wright died Dec. 21 in Salem, Va. A 1949 graduate of the UNC School of Law and longtime Chapel Hill attorney, she is remembered as a pioneer of the women’s bar in Orange County and prominent participant in the civil rights movement in New Orleans. Access the link below for additional information.
http://www.ncbar.org/membership/memoriam/index.aspx
NOMINATE DESERVING COLLEAGUES FOR 2009 PRO BONO AWARDS
The floor is open for nominations for the 2009 Pro Bono Awards, presented annually by the NCBA in conjunction with the Pro Bono Project. Recipients will be honored at the NCBA Annual Meeting, scheduled June 25-28 in Asheville. Please take time to access the link below and consider placing nominations for William L. Thorp Pro Bono Attorney (of the Year) Award, the Deborah Greenblatt Outstanding Legal Services Attorney Award, the Chief Justice Award, the Large and Smaller Law Firm awards and the Law Student Group Project Award. Nominations for the YLD Younger Lawyer Pro Bono Award are also facilitated through this form. The deadline is Jan. 30.
http://www.ncbar.org/public/proBonoPublicService/proBonoNomination.pdf
ETHICS CLE PROMISES TO HAVE LAWYERS SINGING, ROCKING, ROLLING
Ethics Rock!: A CLE that will have lawyers singing! The live four-hour Ethics program will be presented in Charlotte on Wednesday, Jan. 14, and in Cary on Thursday, Jan. 15. This tuneful and nostalgic legal ethics seminar presents complex legal ethics scenarios as expertly performed parodies of some of the great rock-and-roll hits. Don’t miss this stellar production provided by your NCBA Foundation CLE Department.
https://www.ncbar.org/cle/programs/index.aspx?id=522ETC
WEB SITE OF THE WEEK
Lawyers Insurance, a subsidiary of Lawyers Mutual, is the official agency of the North Carolina Bar Association. Did you know that Lawyers Insurance also provides an extensive menu of Court and Probate Bonds? Applications are readily accessible; simply download or complete the application online. Access the link below for details.
http://www.lawyersinsuranceagency.com/inner.asp?category=3