Message from the Chair of the NCBA Business Law Section

By Ben Baldwin

Dear Members of the Business Law Section:

I am honored to serve as the chair of the Business Law Section for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 bar years. The section’s leadership (consisting of officers, council members and committee chairs who can be found here) is looking forward to a busy and productive year.

A few things to note before the current bar year gets up and running:

●  The 2020 Business Section Annual Meeting and CLE will be held at the Pinehurst Resort on Friday, February 14 (preceded by the annual Business Law Institute CLE on Thursday, February 13). The planning committee is already working hard on the program, so be sure to mark your calendars!

●  If you haven’t done so already, please renew your NCBA membership as soon as possible.

●  Speaking of membership, as you may already be aware, the NCBA has revamped its dues structure, which is summarized here and which generally includes in the base price one section membership and 12 hours of on demand CLE. If you have the opportunity, please invite those who may not be members of our section to use the included section membership to join us.

One of my goals for the section will be the use of your membership dollars to enhance the connections amongst section members, with networking events and the like. The section council will be discussing this soon, so please stay tuned.  

Finally, I’d like to encourage each member, if not already involved with a section committee, to take a look at the list of committees (found here), consider which ones might be of interest to you, and then join one (which you can do on this page under “Committee Sign-Up”).

In particular, we need to identify a Co-Chair for our Communications Committee. This person would be responsible, among other things, for posting articles to the section’s blog (and so some facility with the computer, or willingness to learn, would be required). Please sign up if interested!

Please do not hesitate to call on me if you have any questions or suggestions for the section.

Ben Baldwin
NCBA Business Law Section 2019-2020