The NCBA Family Law, Estate Planning, and Military & Veterans Law Sections invite you to a joint networking happy hour in Fayetteville.
Date and Time: 5 – 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 28
Location: The Mash House, 4150 Sycamore Dairy Road, Fayetteville
RSVP online by Tuesday, Feb. 26
Free for all Section Members. Invite someone who could be a member.
One of the benefits of NCBA membership is access to BarCARES, a confidential, free service that provides referrals for counseling services. Members of local bars that subscribe to the program are also eligible. BarCARES offers participants up to three, no-cost sessions with counselors per year. If a participant wishes to have more counseling beyond that, a client can generally continue working with the same counselor using insurance benefits or other resources.
Studies have consistently shown that over the years that legal professionals have a high risk of substance abuse, depression, and suicide. BarCARES offers help with:
You can find BarCARES online at www.ncbar.org/members/barcares/. Or call with questions about BarCARES or access your free counseling sessions by calling the confidential assistance line, 800-640-0735, during normal business hours. You will either speak to the program coordinator or have the option to leave a confidential voicemail. After your initial phone call, the BarCARES Program Coordinator will arrange an initial session between you and a BarCARES provider.
Remember: The BarCARES program is completely confidential.
Happy New Year!
It is hard to believe that I am halfway into my tenure as chair. Earlier this month I checked off one of my goals as chair – to diversify the location of our section council meetings. As the results of our survey illustrate, one of the greatest values of membership in the Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Section is networking, and it is important to bring the fun to our members who live outside of the Triangle. It was great to see so many of our Charlotte area members at Blackfinn Ameripub for our social event, and again at lunch to hear former Section Chair Rick Gaskins and Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation Director Emilee Syrewicze regale us with coal ash stories. Thank you to Robinson Bradshaw for hosting!
Catherine Sanders Reach, NCBA Center For Practice Management Director
CATHERINE’S CALL
Folders are the typical way Outlook users organize emails, but sometimes you may want other intelligence about an email (or task, contact, calendar event) for organizational purposes. While you can put copies of a single email into multiple folders, or rely on search, another option is to apply categories. The way lawyers can use categories is particularly useful, as we will illustrate.
Food banks across North Carolina are welcoming volunteers from the legal community this January and February, and you should be one of them. Choose from among 11 dates and locations for the one (or more) that works best for you. To learn more or sign up, contact [email protected].
These events are gearing up the NCBA for its annual food-and-fund-raising contest, the Legal Feeding Frenzy or “LFF.” The LFF is brought to you by the NCBA’s Young Lawyers Division, but the contest and volunteer events are not just for the “young” and are not just for lawyers. Attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, practice administrators, law professors, law students, and even their families are invited (note that most events are limited to ages 12, 13, or 16 and up). While you’re there, sign up your law firm, law school, government/non-profit corporate counsel/in-house team (all sizes, from 1 to 100+) for the LFF contest and earn special contest bonuses.
The Legal Feeding Frenzy Food-and-Fund-Raising Contest runs March 1 – 30.
Volunteer Event Dates
See the table below this list and the LFF flyer here for more details on the upcoming volunteer events.
January 4, 2019 | Southern Pines – Sandhills | 9am – 12pm
January 5, 2019 | Durham | 9am – 12pm
January 5, 2019 | Raleigh | 1pm – 4pm
January 18, 2019 | Wilmington | 9am – 12pm
January 21, 2019 | Elizabeth City | 9am – 12pm
January 26, 2019 | Greenville – New Bern | 9am – 12pm
February 2, 2019 | Charlotte | 9am – 12pm
February 9, 2019 | Winston-Salem | 9am – 12pm
February 9, 2019 | Fayetteville | 9am – 12pm
February 16, 2019 | Durham | 9am – 11am
February 23, 2019 | Asheville | 9 am – 12pm
By Joe Murray
Charlotte is a banking town, and in banking towns, everyone’s a vice president. If you work for a bank, brokerage firm, or other financial institution for a couple of years, you’ll make VP, even if your duties, management responsibilities, and pay don’t change. Dunn, Andrew, Your Charlotte bank VP title doesn’t really mean much, Charlotte Agenda, Nov. 19, 2015. This VP title creep has moved into other industries, devaluing what it means to be VP. Schumpeter, Too many chiefs, The Economist, Jun. 24, 2010.
Many of us are familiar with the famous, albeit purportedly apocryphal, quote by former president Andrew Jackson, who, upon hearing of the Court’s decision in Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515 (1832), is supposed to have famously declared of Chief Justice John Marshall: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!” See, e.g., Edwin A. Miles, After John Marshall’s Decision: Worcester v. Georgia and the Nullification Crisis, 39 J. Southern Hist. 519, 519 (1973). But See Paul F. Boller, Jr. & John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions 53 (1989).
Regardless of whether these words were ever uttered, the sentiment is clear: absent cooperation from the coordinate branches of the federal government, even the U.S. Supreme Court would be forced to rely on its contempt powers to enforce its rulings. What is perhaps less well-known about Andrew Jackson is that he was, at one time, on the receiving end of a federal court’s civil contempt power, a mark on his record he regretted until his dying days. Eberhard P. Deutsch, The United States Versus Major General Andrew Jackson, 46 A.B.A. J. 966, 971–72 (1960).
The Local Bar Outreach Committee is soliciting nominations for the 2019 Citizen Lawyer Awards for NCBA members who have distinguished themselves in their volunteer service to community and civic causes. Since 2007, the NCBA has recognized lawyers who provide exemplary public service with its Citizen Lawyer Awards. Since 2016, I have had the pleasure of serving as a chair of this Committee. We have the privilege of reviewing information about dedicated lawyers across our state who give back to their communities and awarding them recognition for that service. A list of past recipients can be found here with descriptions of the great work they have performed for their local communities or in state-wide organizations. We encourage you to identify and nominate deserving lawyers in your community so that we may honor them at the NCBA annual meeting in June. Our hope is to get a pool of applicants who are diverse in many respects: geographically; the type of volunteer work performed; age, race and gender.
It’s hard to believe that this 2018-19 bar year is already halfway over. We are so proud of what the NCBA YLD has accomplished in the first half of this year and what is in the works for the rest of the year. We are also beginning the process of planning for the 2019-20 bar year and we need your input. Please respond to this survey regarding your interests and thoughts for the 2019-20 bar year by 5 pm on Friday, February 8, 2019.
Your responses are critical to helping us plan for the best 2019-20 YLD bar year possible!
Also, please mark your calendars: our annual planning meeting will be in Charlotte on Saturday, March 30, 2018 from 9am-2pm. Details will follow soon. We hope to see you there.
This just in: The Privacy and Data Security Committee is on its way to becoming a new North Carolina Bar Association Section. With growing interest in the Privacy and Data Security arena, the North Carolina Bar Association formed a Privacy and Data Security Committee in June 2017. NCBA members from various practice areas joined the Committee to discuss privacy and data security matters that impact the general public and the legal profession at large. On Jan. 17, 2019 the NCBA’s Board of Governors approved the Committee’s application to become a full-fledged NCBA Section. As you can see, the Privacy and Data Security Section is on the move.
Whether your practice area focuses on privacy and data security, or just want to stay informed the latest topics and trends, you will find great benefit in joining the new Section, which will officially commence at the start of the new NCBA’s 2019-2020 fiscal year in July. Below is a list of membership benefits:
The new Section is now open for registration. To join the Privacy and Data Security Section, please go to the following: https://www.ncbar.org/members/sections/privacy-data-security/.
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