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Affiliate Outreach Committee

AOC will take place this year at the Vinoy in St. Petersburg on January 12-13, 2018.

1. Agenda.a. Thursday

i. YLD Board Receptionii. Board Dinner

iii. Board Optional Night on the Townb. Friday

i. Board Breakfastii. Board Meeting

iii. Affiliate/LSD Check-iniv. Welcome Speaker

1. Our Committee has some great ideas, so stay tuned!v. Get to Know the YLD and President's Roundtable

vi. Gala at Museum of Fine Arts1. Dinner, Drinks, and Dancing

c. Saturdayi. Fun run

ii. Conference Breakfastiii. Affiliate Grant Presentations/LSD Meetingiv. Lunch and Awards Presentationv. Scavenger hunt at some of downtown St. Pete's finest

establishments

2. Goal. The goal this year is to encourage networking so every affiliate inattendance leaves feeling like he or she really gained a lot from AOC, whether itis bringing back new ideas and resources to a local bar or meeting new friends.Hopefully it's both.

3. Theme. To be decided.

4. Fun Events:a. Gala at MOFA. We want this to be a fun night! The Museum of Fine

Arts is an incredible venue with amazing food. The museum will even beopen for us to browse during the night. Picture a gorgeous party with akick butt band. Get ready to dance and have a blast!

b. Scavenger Hunt in Downtown St. Pete. St. Pete is famous for its barsand breweries. To encourage networking and camaraderie while enjoyingthese establishments, we would like to bring back the scavenger hunttradition in some form. Governor Paul Sylvestri has already started doing"research."

5. Grant Presentations. We are considering asking affiliates to submit videoapplications this way in an attempt to make the presentations for engaging and

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quite frankly, fun. We hope this will be a fun and innovative way to present the grant applications so others can stick around and pick up some new ideas. Let us know your thoughts!

6. Community Service Project. Last year's "Suits for Soldiers" clothing drive was

incredibly successful. This year, we will host another community service-related event to be decided by the committee. Stay tuned!

7. Health and Wellness Component. Health and wellness is very important to the YLD’s overall message for AOC. To this end, we will be hosting a fun run similar to the last couple of years. Governors Margaret Rowell Good and John Miller have done an incredible job heading this up in the past and we are excited to continue the tradition. There may be tank tops. You never know, so you should definitely participate.

8. Keynote Speaker. Having a keynote speaker in years past has been a big success

and we will be including one again this year. We are currently considering options as a committee and will make a selection soon. Stay tuned!

9. President Elect Boot Camp. Last year, we implemented a presentation to help educate our affiliates about what the YLD does and all of the incredible YLD resources available to them. We will continue this boot camp and seque it into a roundtable for the Presidents and President-Elects of local affiliates, to educate them on the YLD’s programing and resources to help their affiliates and allow them to take full advantage of all the YLD has to offer during their presidencies.

American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Committee Report SPONSORING A PROPOSAL TO THE ABA YLD TO ADOPT THE PARENTAL LEAVE RULE AS AN ABA MODEL RULE

Background

Our YLD Board unanimously supported the Parental Leave Rule, as did the “big” Board. The Miami-Dade Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers also adopted a resolution encouraging the Florida Bar Board of Governors to adopt the Rule.

Ingrid P. Benson-Villegas (11th Circuit, Miami-Dade) recently reached out to Zack, Lara Bach, and others, explaining that she had attended an ABA YLD Conference and discussed putting forth a resolution to add a Parental Leave Rule, modelled after Florida’s, to the ABA Model Rules. Ingrid stated that those she spoke with were very interested in the idea of adopting the Rule at the national level. She asked us if we would sponsor a proposal for a resolution to the ABA YLD.

Ingrid copied Craig Leen (11th Circuit, Coral Gables; City Attorney), Deborah Baker-Egozi (11th Circuit, Miami-Dade; Greenspoon Marder), and Miriam Ramos (11th Circuit, Coral Gables; Deputy City Attorney/City Prosecutor), whom she credited with spearheading the Rule. Leen and Ramos were on The Florida Bar Special Committee on Parental Leave in Court Actions, and Baker-Egozi is on the Board of Governors. Leen emailed us to note his support of an ABA Model Rule, and offered his assistance going forward.1 Baker-Egozi also expressed support and explained that a male friend of hers is filing a motion for continuance due to his wife’s due date and that he would be citing the proposed rule and its unanimous support by both Boards, while noting that it is now before the Florida Supreme Court.

Austin Thacker has also previously discussed the Rule with Casey Kannenberg, who heads up resolutions for the ABA YLD as the ABA YLD Assembly Speaker. Casey is personally supportive. I reached out to Cabell Clay, the ABA YLD Administrative Director, for additional input on next steps. She is also supportive. Based upon their input, we have identified the next steps listed below should our Board desire to submit an ABA YLD resolution to seek an ABA Model Rule.

1 Leen stated:

This is exactly something that the ABA should be supporting as the logic and principles behind it apply nationwide. This will allow attorneys, both women and men, the dignity and joy of being able to spend time with their newborns or newly adopted children without having to give up their cases in the process. In addition, and this is a key point to emphasize, it is also supportive of clients, who will be able to continue with their attorneys of choice and not lose them because of a failure to be granted a continuance. The rule is also a fair one as it allows for judicial discretion to deny or reduce a continuance where there would be substantial prejudice such as a need for time sensitive relief.

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Next Steps for Submitting an ABA YLD Resolution (deadlines below assume submission at Midyear Meeting on Feb. 1-3)

Florida Bar YLD BOG to discuss whether to put forth a resolution2 (July 20)

o If we elect to do so, we should begin broaching the issue with the “big” Board to start garnering their support.

Expand the scope of The Florida Bar Special Committee on Parental Leave in Court Actions’ Committee Analysis and Action Report to cover other states

o Out-of-state members will be needed to coordinate with their respective states’ YLDs to try to get them on board and to include an analysis of their state.

o Submit with final resolution, but the earlier we complete, the better.

o Approach other YLD affiliates, sections, & committees to co-sponsors, support

Submit a resolutions idea form (deadline: Sept. 15)

o Casey Kannenberg selects ideas that fit best with ABA YLD’s goals and then pairs those selected with a member of the resolution team who helps draft the resolution.

Submit a final resolution (deadline: Dec. 1)

Continue to build support/momentum for resolution with other YLD affiliates, sections, & committees in advance of vote at YLD Assembly (vote: Feb. 3)

“Politic” with the ABA House of Delegates (i.e., grown-ups) for support at ABA level

o Hilarie Bass (11th Circuit, Miami-Dade; President-Elect of ABA; Co-President of Greenberg Traurig)

o Suzanne Gilbert (9th Circuit, Orlando; ABA House of Delegates – Drafting Committee; Holland & Knight’s practice group leader for Central Florida Litigation)

o Any other ABA House of Delegates members that we have relationship with? (https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/leadership/aba-

2 “Resolutions are sometimes called reports with recommendations. The ABA House of Delegates considers resolutions that, after adoption by the House, become Association policies. A YL Resolution is one written by a Young Lawyer. Those that pass the Assembly are brought to the house on the ABA YLD's behalf.”

» Resolution Idea Form (docx)

» Drafting Guide

» Resolution Example

» ABA YLD Bylaws

For more info, see: www.americanbar.org/groups/young_lawyers/about_us/assembly.html.

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leadership-directory-redbook-website.authcheckdam.pdf, needs updating, but see pp. 13-23)

AJP can reach out to Suzanne Gilbert, Min Cho, Leonard Gilbert, Bill Shepherd, Martha Barnett, Bill Schifino, & Mark Nichols

o Also, we will need to approach other sections & committees to co-sponsor it with us at the House of Delegates level.

If you’d like to help out, please shoot me an email: anthony.palermo@hklaw.com. Thanks!

July 13, 2017

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VIRGIN ISLANDS BAR ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

Trudy Fenster President

Anthony M. Ciolli President-Elect

Nycole A. Thompson Secretary

Ernest E. Morris, Jr. Treasurer

Adriane Dudley ABA Delegate

J. Russell B. Pate Immediate-Past President

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Andrew L. Capdeville

Nesha Christian-Hendrickson

Charlotte K. Perrell

Chivonne Thomas

Julia Baldini Executive Director

Re: ABA Board of Governors Election (Young Lawyer At-Large)

Dear President Zuroweste and Members of The Florida Bar YLD Board of Governors:

I hope this letter finds each of you well. It has been a pleasure to get to know many of you over the past several years, both at ABA meetings as well as the Florida and Virgin Islands regional summit in St. Thomas last year. As you may know, I am currently seeking the ABA Young Lawyers Division’s nomination to the ABA Board of Governors. This is a contested election, and another young lawyer, Sheena Hamilton, is also seeking the nomination. I write to you in the hope that the Florida Bar YLD will consider supporting me in this campaign.

The Board of Governors oversees the general operations and strategic direction of the ABA. This includes setting the annual budget for the ABA and its divisions, such as the ABA YLD. Because only two young lawyers serve on the 44-member Board at any given time, it is critically important that the candidate has the experience necessary to work with senior ABA leadership to ensure that the interests of young lawyers are not just presented, but adopted.

Like many of you, I began my bar involvement with my local affiliate, eventually becoming Chair of the Virgin Islands Bar Association Young Lawyers Committee in 2013. Since then, I ran for election to senior bar leadership, and just last year was elected President-Elect of the Virgin Islands Bar Association. In addition, I have worn many hats in the ABA YLD, including serving as Assembly Parliamentarian and a member of the Resolutions Team, National Conferences Team, the Membership Board, and as a Diversity Scholar. I have also held several senior leadership positions in the ABA, including as a member of the ABA House of Delegates and as a State Captain for ABA Day in Washington.

It is this unique experience—a young lawyer leader who has also ascended to the highest levels of senior bar leadership—that makes me particularly suited to serve on the ABA Board of Governors. Since I declared my candidacy, I have reached out to young lawyer and senior bar leaders across the country, and spoken with them about what they would like to see from the ABA. Simply put, I believe that the ABA must (1) adequately fund the ABA YLD; (2) provide young lawyers with greater representation in senior ABA leadership, including at the officer level; and (3) improve the quality of services the ABA provides to its members, so that the ABA provides real value to its members that attorneys of all levels of experience and areas of practice will have no qualms paying for. As both a young lawyer Chair and senior bar President, I have dealt with these issues locally, and know that we can accomplish these goals through relationship-building, planning, and hard work.

As of this writing, I am proud to have earned the personal support of more than 160 young lawyer and senior bar leaders nationwide—including many from Florida—as well as the endorsement of diverse senior bar and young lawyer groups, including the Connecticut Bar Association Young Lawyers Section, the Denver Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, and the State Bar of Hawai’i Young Lawyers Division. I encourage you to review my website, www.anthonyforyld.com, to find out more about me, read my full policy platform, and view my most up to date endorsement list.

Thank you so much for this opportunity to introduce myself and to hopefully earn your support in this campaign. Being able to connect with and discuss my ideas is very important to me, and I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to read this letter. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any questions, comments, or concerns; I can be best reached at aciolli@gmail.com. I look forward to working with you in the coming months and years, and hope to see many of you at the ABA Annual Meeting this August!

Sincerely,

Anthony M. Ciolli President-Elect, Virgin Islands Bar Association

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Dear Fellow Young Lawyers: Welcome to Montreal! The ABA YLD Spring Conference is my favorite meeting of the year because it focuses on one of the most important services our Division has to offer: affiliate leadership training and networking.

Like many of you, I got involved in the ABA after becoming a leader in my local affiliate. The training provided at prior ABA YLD Spring Conferences was truly invaluable in preparing me to serve as Chair of the Virgin Islands Bar Association Young Lawyers. In fact, I continue to use many of those lessons

in my senior bar leadership positions in both the ABA and the Virgin Islands Bar, where I currently serve as its President-Elect.

I chose to seek election to the ABA Board of Governors for the same reason I ran for President of the Virgin Islands Bar: to ensure that the same opportunities that benefited me do not become the victim of impending budget cuts, but remain available to future young lawyers. I am confident that - with your help – we can get the job done!

I believe young lawyer dues should stay with the YLD, and not be sent elsewhere. A professional organization's budget should be equitable and reasonable. This means that dues-paying members should get value from the organization that is roughly equal to the money they pay in dues. If that does not happen, then membership drops, and the whole ABA suffers.

Young lawyer members brought in between $10,103,240.00 and $15,589,004.00 in ABA membership dues in FY2013. Young lawyers’ dues thus accounted for 14% to 21% of the $72,700,000.00 in dues revenue the ABA collected in FY 2013. But the ABA YLD only got about $1,762,489.00 back in FY2014. This is unsustainable, and has to change.

I believe young lawyers should be heard, from the ABA House to the State House. From testifying before the Connecticut General Assembly in favor of Civil Gideon to amending the ABA Constitution, I have never hesitated to ensure that young lawyers make an impact.

I believe the ABA needs to provide real, tangible value to all its members. As the Executive Director stated in a recent report, “the ABA's membership pressures are significant,” with “[a] key reason former ABA members leave” being that “[m]ore than 60 percent say they did not find value for their dues payments.” The ABA must focus on improving the quality of its member services, so that all attorneys will have no qualms paying for an ABA membership.

I believe that while the ABA has made great strides to meet Goal III of its mission statement, more can be done. Although ABA leadership is diverse, the rank-and-file membership does not look like the legal profession. I believe we should increase collaboration with affinity bars, such as joint membership discounts, so that young lawyers need not choose between the ABA and other bars for financial reasons.

Let’s roll out the red carpet for second-career lawyers, and lawyers returning from family leave by extending ABA YLD eligibility and waiving CLE registration and other fees.

I am an unabashed dog and cat dad! The Zoo, From The Far Left to The Far Right:

Sophie (9 year old Peekapoo), Neptune (23 month old tuxedo cat rescued from St. Thomas, USVI while four weeks old), Ladybug (10 month old calico kitten originally from Staten Island but found in Hartford), and Bella (12 year old Yorkiepoo, but still acts like she is just 12 months old).

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Senior ABA & ABF Positions ABA House of Delegates, 2014-Present ABF Fellows State Chair (U.S. Virgin Islands), 2017-2020 ABA Day in Washington State Captain, 2016 & 2017 Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 2015-Present

ABA Young Lawyers Division Positions ABA YLD Assembly Parliamentarian, 2015-16 ABA YLD Assembly Delegate, 2014-Present ABA YLD Resolutions Team, 2014-Present ABA YLD Truth in Law School Education Committee, 2014-16 ABA YLD Membership Board, 2015-Present ABA YLD Redistricting Task Force, 2016-Present ABA YLD Credentials Board, 2015-Present ABA YLD National Conferences Team, 2016-Present ABA YLD Diversity Scholar Mentor, 2016-Present ABA YLD Diversity Scholar, 2014-15 ABA YLD Liaison, Forum on Air & Space, 2014-15 Vice-Chair, ABA YLD Air & Space Committee, 2015-16 Vice-Chair, ABA YLD Intellectual Property Committee, 2014-15 Proxy, #2 District Representative (CT/RI), Spring 2016 & Midyear 2017

President-Elect, Virgin Islands Bar Ass’n, 2016-Present Virgin Islands Bar Board of Governors, 2014-Present ABA Delegate, Virgin Islands Bar Association, 2014-16 Chair, Virgin Islands Bar Young Lawyers, 2013-Present Chair, Virgin Islands Bar CLE Committee, 2014-Present Chair, Virgin Islands Bar Journal, 2015-Present Chair, Finance Committee, 2016-Present Chair, Bylaws Revision Committee, 2016-Present Member, Bylaws Revision Committee, 2014-16 Law School Exploratory Committee, 2014-16 Southern Conf. of Bar Presidents Host Cmte., 2013-14

Diversity & Inclusion Co-Director, 2016-Pres. Executive Committee, 2015-Present Chair, Prof'l Resp. Committee, 2016-Present Reporter, Bylaws Committee, 2016-Present Co-Chair, Litigation Committee, 2015-16 Long-Range Planning Committee, 2015-16

Virgin Islands Judicial Council, 2016-Present Judicial Branch Unification Task Force, 2016-Present Chair, UTF Policy Review Committee, 2016-Present

Chair, UTF Case Processing Sub-Cmte., 2016-Present Counsel, Advisory Committee on Rules, 2016-Present

National Conference of Bar Presidents, 2016-Present Southern Conference of Bar Presidents, 2016-Present

National Caucus of State Bar Associations, 2016-Present

ABA Rosner & Rosner Young Lawyer Professionalism Award ABA Young Lawyers Division Diversity Scholar

Virgin Islands Bar Association President's Award Government of the Virgin Islands Employee of the Year

American Bar Foundation Fellow Paul Neurath Graduate Scholarship Henry Shereff Memorial Scholarship

Record for Fastest Graduation from Cornell University

HOD 10A (Midyear 2017) PASSED Urges the U.S. Supreme Court to consider diversity in amicus curiae and special master appointments.

APPROVED BY ABA YLD Assembly (2017 Midyear)

ABA House of Delegates (2017 Midyear)

C-2017-4 (Midyear 2017) PASSED Amend the ABA YLD Bylaws to provide that all ABA YLD Emerging Leaders are automatic delegates to the ABA YLD Assembly.

APPROVED BY

ABA YLD Council (2017 Midyear)

HOD 11-4 (Annual 2016) PASSED Amended the ABA Constitution to provide the U.S. Virgin Islands with a young lawyer delegate to the ABA House of Delegates.

APPROVED BY ABA YLD Council (Spring 2016)

ABA YLD Assembly (2016 Annual) ABA House of Delegates (2016 Annual)

4YL (Annual 2016) PASSED Amended the ABA YLD Bylaws to provide that all ABA YLD Diversity Scholars are automatic delegates to the ABA YLD Assembly.

APPROVED BY

ABA YLD Assembly (2016 Annual) ABA Board of Governors (Fall 2016)

5YL (Annual 2016) PASSED Amended the ABA YLD Bylaws to confer states and territories with more than 500, but less than 1,000, ABA YLD members with a third delegate to the YLD Assembly.

APPROVED BY

ABA YLD Assembly (2016 Annual) ABA Board of Governors (Fall 2016)

4YL (Midyear 2016) PASSED Urges the ABA Section of Legal Education to amend its bylaws to provide for two young lawyer voting members on its Council.

APPROVED BY

ABA YLD Assembly (2016 Midyear)

7YL (Annual 2015) PASSED Urges the ABA to provide equal representation to ABA members residing in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.

APPROVED BY

ABA YLD Assembly (2015 Annual)

Council Res. (Spring 2015) PASSED Amended the ABA YLD Assembly Standing Rules to mandate 14-days advance notice of resolutions.

APPROVED BY

ABA YLD Council (Spring 2015)

HOD 10A (Annual 2014) PASSED Urges Congress to amend 28 U.S.C. § 44(c) to provide representation to United States territories on the federal courts of appeals.

APPROVED BY

ABA YLD Assembly (2014 Annual) ABA House of Delegates (2014 Annual)

LL.M. in Taxation, New York University School of Law A.L.M., Harvard University Extension School J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School

M.B.E., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine M.A. in Sociology, CUNY Queens College

B.S. in Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University

U.S. Virgin Islands New York

Supreme Court of the United States U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

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The below supporter list is accurate as of May 1, 2017. All titles of supporters are used for identification purposes only. This is a contested

election, and Sheena Hamilton has also filed a declaration of candidacy.

Since I declared my candidacy on August 6, 2016, I have taken every opportunity to speak to as many lawyers as possible about my vision for the ABA. I am honored and humbled by the outpouring of support for my candidacy, and am proud to count nearly 160 individuals and seven entities as among my public supporters.

Abiola Afolayan (DC) [Sch.] Adam Ansari (IL) Dwyer Arce (NE) Kareem Aref (CA)

ABA Law Student Division Chair Micah Ascano (GA)

Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#3 Dist.)

Molly Aspan (OK) [HOD]

Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#24 Dist.) Fmr. Oklahoma YLD Chair

Jenny Baker (MS) Mississippi YLD Chair

Michael Barrett (MO) Emerson Beishline (MN)

Ryan Blay (WI) Fmr. Wisconsin YLD President

Peter Bodri (DC) Tom Bolt (VI) [HOD]

ABA Board of Governors Nominee Fmr. ABA Law Practice Division Chair

Trejur P. Bordenave (HI) Hawaii YLD President

Danielle L. Borel (LA) Jacob R. Brennan (WA) [Sch.]

Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#29 Dist.) Fmr. Spokane County (WA) YLD President

Matthew Broderick (CO) Shane Brooks (TX)

Amarillo Area (TX) YLD President

Brad Brown (OK) Sidney Butcher (MD) [HOD] [Sch.]

Fmr. Maryland State Bar Ass’n Treasurer

Vanessa Candelaria (CA) Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#31 Dist.)

Fmr. Filipino Bar Ass’n of North’rn CA President

Claudia E. Castro (IL) Hispanic Lawyers Ass’n of Illinois President

Fmr. ABA YLD Nat’l Rep. (Hisp. Nat’l Bar Ass’n) Fmr. Hispanic Nat’l Bar Ass’n YLD President

Nesha Christian-Hendrickson (VI) Jeffrey Connor (NV)

Nevada YLS Chair

Kate Conyers (UT) Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#27 Dist.)

Fmr. Utah YLD President

Taylor Cope (NY) Kristen Corpion (FL)

Shari Cuomo-Shore (CT) Jordan A. Davis (NV)

Nevada YLS Chair-Elect Federal Bar Ass’n (Nevada) President-Elect

Philippine C. Dumoulin (DC) Courtenay Dunn (VA)

ABA SOGI Commission

Adriane J. Dudley (VI) [HOD] Fmr. ABA Board of Governors

Fmr. ABA Section of State & Local Law Chair

Julia Durbin (NJ) Samuel Edmunds (MN) [HOD]

Fmr. Minnesota NLS Chair

Jeremy T. England (MS) Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#13 Dist.)

Fmr. Jackson County (MS) YLD President

Joseph Feldstein Del-Valle (PR) Fmr. Puerto Rico FBA YLD Chair

Jaimie A. Fender (OR) Alfredo Fernandez (CT)

Connecticut Hispanic Bar Ass’n President

Brittany Fortier (VA) Chris Fortier (VA)

Virginia State Bar YLC President-Elect Catherine Freeman (ID)

Idaho YLS Chair

Matthew Fryar (AR) [HOD] Fmr. Arkansas YLS Chair

Joshua Garber (CA) Tomas Garcia (NM) [Sch.]

New Mexico YLD Chair

Joseph T. Gasper II (VI) Fmr. National LGBT Bar Association Treasurer

Christian George (FL) Florida YLD President-Elect

Aviva Gilbert (CA) Gordon J. Glover (FL) Fmr. Florida YLD President

Reed Grantham (CA) Alexander F. Guminski (PA)

ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#5 Dist.)

Ashley Hallene (TX) Steven K. Hardy (VI)

Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#10 Dist.)

AnnMichelle G. Hart (WA) [Sch.] Jordan Haygood (OK)

ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#24 Dist.)

Ryan K. Hew (HI) Fmr. Hawaii YLD President

Jason Hirshon (OR) Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#29 Dist.)

Fmr. Oregon NLD Chair

Dayan Hochman (NM) [Sch.] Fmr. New Mexico Women's Bar Ass’n President

Hayley Hoffman (DC) Miriah Holden (HI)

Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#33 Dist.) Fmr. Hawaii YLD President

Mummi Ibrahim (LA) Joy L. Isaacs (AZ)

Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#23 Dist.)

Luke Jenson (IA) Austin B. Johns (CT) [HOD]

Brian M. Karpf (FL) Gregory Kau (CT)

Mathew Kerbis (IL) [EL] Fmr. ABA Law Student Division Chair

Thomas K. Kim (AZ) ABA Law Student Division Chair-Elect

Bobbie King Jr. (FL) Donnie King (FL) Jin-Ho King (MA) Justin King (VI)

Blake A. Klinkner (WY) ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#28 Dist.) Fmr. Wyoming YLS President

Jeff Kogan (NJ) Joanna Kornafel (CT) ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#2 Dist.)

Anthony Kuchulis (OR) Alexis Liistro (WA)

Laura Liss (CO) Peggy Liu (IL) [HOD] [EL] Kahlida Lloyd (DC) [Sch.]

Ryan Loeffers (HI) ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#33 Dist.)

Rachel Lowes (FL)

Morgan Macdonald (DC) Perry MacLennan (SC) Scott MacMullan (MD)

Jim Manning (NY) [HOD] [EL] Fmr. ABA Board of Governors

Eric Marks (AR) Arkansas YLS Chair-Elect

Stefan K. McBride (AR) Matthew McCann (NY) James McEleney (NY)

Kyle McEntee (NC) David McGrath (CT) Connecticut YLS Secretary

David McGuire (CT)

S. Leslie McIntosh (SC) Anderson County Bar Ass’n Treasurer-Secretary

Kyle Meehan (PA)

Joshua N. Miller (MN)

Michael M. Miller (MN) [HOD]

Leland Moore (CT)

Michael J. Mouridy (NJ)

Jonathan Myhre (RI) Stephanie Myron (FL)

Lane Neal (OK) Oklahoma YLD Chair

Matthew S. Necci (CT) Fmr. Connecticut YLS Chair

Victoria Nedospasova (AL) David H.K. Nguyen (ND) [Sch.]

Christopher Niro (IL) Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#15 Dist.)

Fmr. Illinois YLD Chair

Brandi Nowakowski (OK) Oklahoma YLD Treasurer

Paul Ochmanek Jr. (IL) Fmr. Chicago YLS Chair

Patrick O’Laughlin (MD) J. Russell B. Pate (VI) Travis Patterson (TX)

Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#26 Dist.) Casey Payton (VI) [Sch.]

ABA YLD Dist. Rep.-Elect (#10 Dist.) Fmr. National LGBT Bar Student Co-Chair

Donika Pentcheva (MN) Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#17 Dist.)

Brian E. Peterson (NY) Suphi A. Philip (CT)

Connecticut YLS Vice-Chair

Cristen Raucci (RI) Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#2 Dist.)

Fmr. Rhode Island NLC Chair

Muthuramanan Rameswaran (PA) Traci Ray (OR)

Michael Redondo (FL) [Sch.] Christina Reichert (NC)

Bryce Rhoades (KY) Fmr. Northern Kentucky YLS Chair

John Rice (TN) Lenehn Ricks (MD)

Heather H. Riggs (GA) Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#12 Dist.)

Jess P. Rinehart (NV) [HOD] Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#27 Dist.)

David Rivera (PR) [HOD]

Tracie C. Robinson (NY) Joshua Roman (NY)

Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#34 Dist.) Katherine Russo (CT) Connecticut YLS Treasurer

Sonia Russo (NM) [Sch.] New Mexico YLD Vice-Chair

Graham Ryan (LA) ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#14 DR)

Ezra Salami (NY) Marie Sarantakis (IL)

Daniel Schwartz (CT) [HOD] ABA Nominating Committee

Emily Graner Sexton (CT) Connecticut Bar Ass’n Asst. Secretary-Treasurer

Fmr. Connecticut YLS Chair

Swetal Shah (AZ) Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#4 Dist.)

Alena Shautsova (NY) [HOD] Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#4 Dist.)

John Shaw (TX) Texas Young Lawyers Association Chair-Elect

Courtney C. Shea (MA) Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#1 Dist.)

Fmr. Massachusetts YLD Chair

Gwendolyn L. Smith (NC) Jasmine D. Smith (SC) [Sch.]

Aaron Sohaski (MI) Fmr. ABA Law Student Division Chair

Andrew Stebbins (IN) Charles M. Stertz (WI)

Fmr. ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#17 Dist.) Fmr. Wisconsin YLD President

Wing-Sze Sun (MN) Fmr. Hennepin County (MN) YLD Vice-President

Austin D. Thacker (FL) ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#11 Dist.)

Daniel R. Thies (IL) C. Barrett Thomas (TX)

Fmr. Texas Young Lawyers Association President

Chivonne Thomas (VI) Deena Tvinnereim (ID)

Daniela R. Alves Valdez (UK) European Young Bar Association President

Andrew VanSingel (IL) Tanner Watkins (KY)

ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#16 Dist.)

John Weber (KY) [HOD] Jonathan Weiner (CT) Fmr. Connecticut YLS Chair

Holli Welch (WY) Wyoming YLS President-Elect

Aidan R. Welsh (CT) Connecticut YLS Chair-Elect

Dave P. Whisenand (MT) ABA YLD Dist. Rep. (#30 Dist.)

Brandon Wolff (NJ) Edwin Wu (VA) [Sch.]

Senior Bar & Other Entity Supporters

Law School Transparency Northern Mariana Islands Bar Association

Virgin Islands Bar Association

Young Lawyer Bar Entity Supporters

Connecticut Bar Ass’n Young Lawyers Section Denver Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Hawaii State Bar Ass’n Young Lawyers Division Virgin Islands Bar Ass’n Young Lawyers Cmte.

Annual Committee Report. The new format for Annual 2017 was a great success. So much so that we’ve decided to keep it and expand on that success for Annual in June 2018 in Orlando. Please contact either of our committee chairs with any ideas, comments, or ways you think we can improve this event next year.

Awards Committee

Past chair Lara Bach has given the committee a great foundation and we hope to build upon the successes of last year. Currently, we are developing a calendar for all the awards. Please look out for our calendar before the next meeting. We will be communicating to our affiliates and seeking nominations through our Local Affiliates Committee. We are currently brainstorming ways to keep the awards (especially the ones that received few applications in past years) fresh in the minds of affiliates and encourage applications. In addition, we hope to get more involvement from YLD board members to encourage nominations. Applications and Information about the YLD Awards can be found here: https://flayld.org/get-involved/awards/. We are asking that you personally reach out to your local affiliates to inform them about awards as deadlines approach. The first award on our calendar will be the YLD Pro Bono Service award. Applications will be due on August 31, 2017. Please encourage your affiliates to nominate a recipient. We hope to get our form letter out to affiliates next week, so please be on the lookout for those.

The Florida Bar YLD Pro Bono Service Award The completed application is due by Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. All completed application packets should be emailed to Joe Joyce (jjj@rkkattorneys.com) and Annika Ashton (aashton@broward.org) with copy to Tom Miller (tmiller@flabar.org) This award recognizes the public service or legal aid performed by a young lawyer (under the age of 36 or one who has not practiced for more than five years in any jurisdiction) who provides outstanding contributions to those in need of legal services. A nominee must be admitted to practice in Florida.

The term Pro Bono is derived from the phrase pro bono publico meaning “for the good of the public.” The purpose of this award is to encourage more Florida young lawyers to freely contribute their time and expertise in providing legal services to people in their community who cannot otherwise afford those services. In some instances, this will include legal services to charitable organizations which serve the poor. The emphasis of this award is on legal service to the poor.

Communications Committee

2017-2018 Communication Committee Goals/Priorities

• Re-design of E-Newsletter • Promotion of Inclusion and Equality initiatives • Welcome letter to all new YLD members • YLD articles in local bar association publications • Collaboration with BOG Communications Committee

E-Newsletter

• One of our main priorities this year is redesigning the YLD E-Newsletter. We have hired Holly Clark to assist with this project. Holly has already provided us with a couple of samples. A key component of the re-design is making sure that the Newsletter promotes the YLD’s key resources and initiatives (i.e. online resources, basic CLE’s, PWP, AOC, inclusion and equality, etc.). Other features might include links to our online resources, a substantive section such as civil/criminal law updates, a “top story”, a member benefit highlight, upcoming events, and a “did you know” section.

• Our goal is to complete the re-design and first edition of the new E-Newsletter by the end of July.

Promotion of Inclusion and Equality

• One of the YLD’s main initiatives this year is inclusion and equality. We will be working closely with the I&E committee to promote their various initiatives/projects. Our major focus will be educating our members and the profession on the benefits of inclusion.

Welcome Letter

• We will be creating a welcome letter from Zack that will be sent to all new YLD members. The letter will welcome new members to the YLD and promote all of our resources. The letters will be mailed to new members after the July and February bar exams. Our goal is to complete the letter and have all of the logistics worked out by the end of August 2017. Michael Lockamy will be leading this project.

Local Bar Articles

• We would like governors to write bar articles for local bar association publications that promote the YLD (i.e. explains who we are and what we do). We will be creating a template for governors to use and asking that they submit articles in their local bar publications. Our goal is to have the template completed by September 2017.

Collaboration with BOG Communications Committee

• This year we will be working closely with the BOG Communications Committee to promote joint BOG and YLD projects. The main areas of collaboration include: YLD webinars for the CRC BOG Committee, Health and Wellness initiatives, and implementation of recommendations from the gender bias survey.

CLE Committee Report

The CLE Committee is gearing up for a successful 2016-2017. As you know, we are now offering Basic CLEs as a bundle and as individual segments. This is a great opportunity to let the viewer know what the YLD does, so we are planning to produce a short YLD commercial that we can attach to each segment. We are also going to revise the script so there is an introduction before each hour. That way, when someone buys it as a segment, it will feel more like a stand-alone CLE.

We are working with Adam White to develop a promotional plan to increase in-person

and online attendance. We are going to increase social media marketing, begin marketing father out, and streamline the marketing process. We are also going to look into outsourcing our CLE marketing. Since these CLEs are the way the YLD funds itself, we want to ensure our efforts are maximizing our revenue stream.

We will be hosting the following Basic CLEs: Basic Family Law (TVM) (2564) (Denise Mutamba & Chrystal Thornton) Program Type: Joint Sponsored Program October 20 Tampa** Tampa Airport Marriott Basic Evidence (TVM) (2565) (Travis Mydock & Joe Joyce) Program Type: Joint Sponsored Program December 08 Tampa** Tampa Airport Marriott Basic Business Litigation (TVM) (2566) (Dwayne Robinson & Cullan Jones) Program Type: Joint Sponsored Program February 23 Tampa** Tampa Airport Marriott Basic Transactional Law (TVM) (2567) (Denise Beamer & Paul Silvestri) Program Type: Joint Sponsored Program March 30 Tampa** Tampa Airport Marriott Basic Personal Injury Law (TVM) (2568) (Andrew Pickett & Michael Levine) Program Type: Joint Sponsored Program April 27 Tampa** TENTATIVE – Location still being secure Basic Estate Planning & Probate (TVM) (2569) (Ciara Willis & Brittany Fraser) Program Type: Joint Sponsored Program May 18 Tampa** TENTATIVE – Location still being secure

Florida Association of Women Lawyers YLD Report

July 2017 During Annual Convention the following members of the 2017-2018 Board of Directors was sworn-in: President: Jen Sullivan (Tallahassee) President-Elect: Jenny Richardson (Jacksonville) Treasurer: Jenny Sieg (New Port Richey) Secretary: Laurie Ann Thompson (West Palm Beach) Membership Director: Jennifer Erdelyi (Sunrise) Journal Editor: Julie Nelson (Miami) Legislative Director: Kimberly Hosley (Orlando) Development Director: Jamie Moses (Orlando) Public Relations Director: Kyleen Hinkle (Terra Ceia) Immediate Past President: Leora Freire (West Palm Beach) Young Lawyers Section Chair: Iris Elijah (Tallahassee) Registration for FAWL’s Annual Summit in Destin on September 14 – 16, 2017, will open soon! A limited number of rooms for $199/night at Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort and Spa are available at fawl.org until August 15th. More information regarding the Summit agenda is forthcoming, but you can expect a welcome and networking reception, CLEs, luncheons, yoga on the beach (thanks to the YLD Health and Wellness grant!), a dinner cruise, and the Board of Directors meeting. If you have any questions about the Annual Summit, partnering with FAWL or a local FAWL affiliate, or how to get more involved with FAWL, please do not hesitate to ask! Iris A. Elijah FAWL Young Lawyers Chair fawlyounglawyers@gmail.com

Quality of Life Committee Report Friday, July 21, 2017

Co-Chairs: Ben Gibson BenGibson01@gmail.com Natasha Dorsey Natasha.Dorsey@rimonlaw.com Committee Members: Allie Menegakis AMenegakis@pd15.org Ashlea Edwards Ashlea.Edwards@gray-robinson.com Brian Karpf bkarpf@ybkglaw.com Eric Everson ericeverson@hotmail.com Ethan Wall ethan@thesocialmedialawfirm.com Kevin Barr kbarr@bryanthigby.com Melanie Chung-Tims chungtims@bicecolelaw.com Nikki Fried nikki@ignitingflorida.com Richard McChesney richard@spottswoodlaw.com Sue-Ann Robinson Sueann@robinsoncaddylaw.com Committee Goals

• Brand around a Mind, Body, Spirit holistic approach to health and wellness. • Launch a year-round Health & Wellness Initiative as opposed to just one month.

(May will continue to be Health & Wellness Month). • Integrate Health & Wellness message and programming into law student division • Partner with Board of Governors to promote awareness with mental health and

substance abuse. • Create a one-stop, resource center for health & wellness resources.

Committee Activities

• “Good stuff” at beginning of every meeting (e.g. video of Benjamin Irving, Law Student Pro Bono Award)

o At the start of each meeting, the Health & Wellness Committee will do a one- to three-minute “Good Stuff” presentation to orient the board to our purpose and goals for the YLD. These segments will focus on things our board has recently accomplished, and if possible, include a testimonial showing how our actions have personally impacted a young lawyer.

• Health & Wellness activity or exercise at every meeting (e.g. gratitude

exercise) o For each meeting, we will develop a creative wellness exercise focused

on the mind, body, or spirit such as stretching, eating a peppermint, for attention, meditating, etc. These exercises should be supported by science so we can educate the group with a quick presentation prior to partaking in them. We plan to practice gratitude for the first meeting by having the BOGs each think of three things they are grateful for during the meeting, then share one during the Good of the Order at the end of the meeting. Studies support this practice as increasing positivity,

happiness and overall well-being http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15358593.2017.1293836. We would like the committee’s help thinking of other things for future meetings.

• Law Student Health & Wellness Day

o We are partnering with the YLD Law Student Division to launch a Law Student Health & Wellness Day. This would help the YLD to expand its Health & Wellness Initiative further into the law schools where it is likely to have a large impact.

• Year-long Health & Wellness Initiative o We want to expand the YLD’s health & wellness month to a year-long

initiative. We believe now is the right time to do this. o This will involve a year-long focus on Health & Wellness and

programming to support. o Monthly Health & Wellness CLEs o Regular content going out on social media.

• Resources & Benefits

o We will create a QOL website for the YLD where we host things like our wellness tips, CLE programs, wellness profiles, wellness-related member benefits and discounts.

• Strategic Partnerships o We will partner with the Board of Governors in their focus on mental

health. o We will work with the Florida Lawyers Assistance Program to present to

our board, possibly at AOC. Two ideas for presentations are 5 Myths About FLA or 5 Tips For Helping Your Lawyer Friend In Need Who Doesn’t Know They Need Help. These could also be CLEs.

Sub-Committees will work closely with Ben & Natasha to achieve their objectives.

• Meetings Subcommittee o Responsible for putting a health & wellness emphasis and focus into

every meeting o Responsible for organizing “Good stuff” message o Responsible for planning one health and wellness activity at every

meeting o Responsible for disseminating information to Board on health & wellness

opportunities at each resort (e.g. gym hours, fitness classes, local healthy eating options, etc.).

• Health & Wellness Month Subcommittee

o Responsible for organizing all events- CLEs, daily social media challenges, Affiliate involvement, promotional articles, etc.

o We will continue hosting YLD Health and Wellness Month in May and will assign committee members to work on collecting law firm, attorney and judge profiles at the Joint Meeting. We also need a volunteer or

volunteers to write an article(s) promoting Health and Wellness Month for publication in the Florida Bar News, the YLD Newsletter, the ABA’s CoLAP blog, the Out of State Division’s Newsletter, and other publications.

• Law Student Outreach Subcommittee o Responsible for creating programming ideas for Law Student Health &

Wellness Day. o Works directly with the Law Student Division Health & Wellness liaison. o Responsible for organizing events at law schools for health & wellness

presentations by Committee members. o Responsible for assisting in promotion of health & wellness materials and

resources to law student division and Deans of law schools.

• Benefits Subcommittee o Responsible for arranging a health & wellness benefit package for YLD

members and possibly all Florida Bar members. o We are seeking fitness, nutrition, and other companies that offer wellness

related items (masseuses, acupuncturists, etc.) who would like to provide Florida Bar member discounts and/or sponsor our law student event or another wellness event we might host.

o Possibly something to work with the Board of Governors on.

• Promotion/Resource Subcommittee o Responsible for organizing health & wellness resources in a one-stop

online presence. o Work with Transition to Practice Committee o Responsible for funneling resources, tips, articles, and challenges to

Danny Aller to post on Bar social media platforms o Responsible for getting articles published in the Florida Bar News focused

on lawyer well-being o We will develop, in partnership with the Local Bar Affiliates Committee, a

list of Quality of Life team builders for young lawyer affiliates, push it out to affiliates, and promote grants for those activities.

• CLE Subcommittee o Responsible for helping to plan one hour-long lunchtime health &

wellness CLE per month for Florida Bar members.

#LiveWell

Law Student Division Committee Report

1. Elections/Appointments: Calling all liaisons!! We will be asking the students to contact their liaisons to coordinate interviews for new 1L governors. Each class gets 2 governors so some schools may be interviewing 2Ls and/or 3Ls as well if students have chosen not return, graduated early, or some schools provide accelerated tracks that have made things a little more difficult with how we count our governors. We are asking that our liaisons do their best to attend the interviews in person and engage with the students. Sometimes they don’t know what questions to ask and you can really help shape the incoming crop of Governors. This process was a HUGE success last year so we really want to keep that going!

2. New Programming: The LSD is doing a lot to reshape its relationship with the Center for Professionalism and update its programming this year. The LSD President, Amanda Decker, has done an awesome job getting the ball rolling on our new “Workshop Series.” We are working to design programming to give students tangible training for their transition to the work force. Our liaisons will play a huge part in this process. If you can attend no other program this year, please try to attend the new Workshop and get other lawyers and judges to attend as well!! If any YLD Board members have materials, ideas or are willing to assist in this undertaking, please reach out to Paige Gillman or Iris Elijah for more information.

3. Pro Bono Award: The LSD just awarded its first ever Pro Bono Award! Barbri

was kind enough to donate a free bar study course to the recipient with the most pro bono hours. This year the award went to Benjamin Irving, an amazing and very deserving FAMU graduate and hopefully a new lawyer come this fall! Look for his photo and an article in the upcoming Florida Bar News. We would like to start publicizing this award MUCH earlier (like at the membership drives on campus this fall) so that we can get more students to apply. Please let us know if you have any ideas about how we can further publicize this opportunity.

4. Proposed Bylaws Revisions: Proposed changes to the Law Student Division Bylaws can be found in the business agenda. The LSD Bylaws require the YLD to vote on any changes to the LSD bylaws. The most notable proposed changes are the following:

a. Section 1- This clarifies how the appointment and election process of the law student governors will work. One is elected by the students, the other is appointed by the school/LSD President and both seats always have the final approval of the YLD President

b. Section 4- Board Member Retention- Because these Governors are chosen within the first month of their 1L year some get too busy and others just fail to engage, although that’s happening less and less. This provision allows the liaison for that school to recommend the student continue on as a governor

c. Article XV- Removal- The LSD Chair can remove any governor at any time for cause (which is outlined in the bylaws and includes a substantial failure to participate)- that removal may be appealed in writing to the YLD President within 14 days

Legislative Affairs Committee Report Florida’s Constitution Revision Commission meets every twenty years. It is now in full swing, for the third time in history. Among other initiatives, the YLD will be supporting the CRC this year, producing a series of 16 one-hour seminars about the Florida Constitution. Initially, the target audience is the commission itself, but we will eventually repurpose the seminars for our own members, law students, and the general public. The other exciting project on the horizon is an optional Tallahassee board meeting for anyone interested in state government, on January 25-26, 2018. We are hoping to build on the success of our 2016 meeting. We are planning to do it in connection with the big board’s meeting, to leverage some of their resources and programming. We will have meetings with legislators, a few tours, a reception with legislators and judges, and a dinner for our people. It will be open to our board, of course, but also affiliate members who are interested in the process. And this year, we hope to host a government Boot Camp (training young lawyers how to get involved in politics and government). If you are interested, please mark your calendars and reach out to Nikki and John.

Local Bar Affiliates The Local Bar Affiliates Committee’s goals for the year essentially fall into three categories:

1. Develop an FAQ/Tips page for the YLD website 2. Communicate regularly and effectively with LBAs 3. Create new LBAs

Below are some of the tasks we think we will need to work on to accomplish those goals: Develop and FAQ/Tips page for the YLD website

- Consult with successful/active LBAs and gather best practices/tips to share (these can go on the website and can be part of a regular (maybe bi-monthly) email update to LBAs)

o Potential topics include fund raising, increasing attendance/participation, programming, networking, etc…

o We should have a mix of tips from both small and large LBAs - Assemble the information/documentation regarding the various resources the YLD

provides to LBAs (grants, using the new tech roadshows as CLE fundraisers, etc…) - Assemble the documentation needed for an LBA to register/start (most of this is already

there, but having some sample bylaws would be helpful) Communicate regularly and effectively with LBAs

- Gather updated email addresses for LBA leadership (this process has already started) - Gather email addresses for executive directors/leaders of main bar associations for LBAs

as a backup means of communication Create new LBAs

- Put together a letter to bar associations without a YLD explaining the ease and benefits of creating a YLD

We are fortunate in that our committee members cover nearly the entire state, but we may periodically reach out to our entire Board for help in reaching local bar leaders for input on some of these initiatives.

Moot Court Committee The 2017 Robert Orseck Memorial Moot Court Competition was a huge success. All twelve of Florida’s law schools participated in the competition. All seven Justices of the Florida Supreme Court, the first for Justice Alan Lawson, judged the final round and declared the Stetson University College of Law’s moot court team the victors. Stetson’s Kris Galloway won best oralist in the final round. Florida State University College of Law’s moot court team finished as the runner-up, with FSU’s Mallory Neumann winning best oralist in the preliminary rounds. The St. Thomas University School of Law’s moot court team received the best brief distinction. This year’s competition problem was based on a criminal-law fact pattern, regarding the admissibility of a partial iPhone video recording of a surveillance tape and the constitutionality of a shaming sentence. In addition to the Florida Supreme Court, judges from all five District Courts of Appeal as well as numerous judges from Florida’s circuit and county courts judged the preliminary, quarterfinal, and semi-final rounds. On behalf of the 2016-2017 Chair and Co-Chair of the Moot Court Committee, Andrew Manko and Jason Lambert, we wanted to send a special thanks to the YLD Board of Governors and the Moot Court Committee for their support and countless volunteer hours drafting the problem, preparing the bench brief, securing judges, as well as judging and facilitating the competition, among other things. We extend a special thanks to Kristina Feher, Sarah Young, Anthony Constantini, and Kyle Sill for drafting this year’s problem and to Caitlein Jammo for drafting the bench brief. This year’s problem featured a iPhone video of an actual burglary as well as an expanded written record on appeal containing transcripts from a suppression and a sentencing hearing. This year, we incorporated the expanded record following a request from Florida Supreme Court justices at the conclusion of last year’s competition. It was a brilliant idea that we intend to carry forward for future competitions. This year, we were able to purchase lunch for all competitors during the first day of the competition. Our preliminary plans are to do the same next year for competitors and possibly the judges, although the previous cost estimates at Bonnet Creek in Orlando were prohibitive. The Moot Court Committee is already planning for next year’s competition, which will be a civil law problem. Please share with us any ideas you may have from your practices or otherwise.

Online Resources Committee Report for July 2017 YLD Meeting CHAIR: Travis Mydock CO-CHAIR: Schuyler Smith MEMBERS: Bert Wohn, Dwayne Robinson, Ethan Wall, GC Murray,

Nick Zbreznje, Paige Gillman, and Sue-Ann Robinson We are continuing to develop the FLA YLD online brand This will include a complete review and update to all our YLD online resources before 2018 We plan to revise the layout and update the content on our main page www.flayld.org We want to improve the search capability and ADA accessibility of our webpages We are going to discontinue the blog and replace it will an announcements page Each committee will have a page on www.flayld.org Some committees already have webpages that need to be updated Each committee should review their webpage for updates and additional content Each committee chair should notify the Online Resources Committee of the proposed changes Thank you to the chairs who have already responded Each governor needs to review their individual profile for any changes Please have all updates to the Online Resources Committee before our August meeting We will be adding additional content to www.startmyfloridalawfirm.com We will be researching possible ways to generate revenue from www.startmyfloridalawfirm.com Please sign up for Lawyers Advising Lawyers if you have 5 years’ experience We will improve the automated referral process for www.lawyersadvisinglawyers.com We will improve the CLE application process for LAL advisors We will have a booth at AOC and Annual again to promote our services and resources Law School Division webpage will be updated under direction of the LSD committee chairs Holly Clark – our web developer will be at the July meeting

Our committee will have a conference call in early August Please let us know if you have any suggestions

PRACTICING WITH PROFESSIONALISM COMMITTEE BY ELECTRONIC MAIL

To: Zackary T. Zuroweste

From: Cherine Smith Valbrun, Chair Jen Smith, Co-Chair Members:

Anthony Palermo Dane Heptner Eric Elms Jay Korch Stephanie Myron

Date: July 17, 2017

Re: Committee Report

UPCOMING LIVE PWP

1. On August 4, 2016, Anthony Palermo will moderate a PWP seminar at the Airport Marriott in Tampa. For a number of reasons, mostly due to the new CLE registration system, registration for this CLE opened later than scheduled raising concerns regarding whether we will secure an adequate number of attendees. The committee has opted to blast the members in Tampa and surrounding areas about the upcoming CLE. If we do not get enough registrants, we will consider moving the CLE to either November or December. However, we remain hopeful that the following impressive lineup of speakers secured by Governor Anthony will attract registrants: • Opening Remarks: Joseph H. Varner, III (Holland & Knight) • Young Lawyers Professionalism Panel:

Erica Bartimmo (Corporate Counsel II; Jabil, Inc.) Jason Whittemore (Wagner McLaughlin, plaintiff’s lawyer at small firm) Thomas Palermo (US Attorney’s Office)

• The Florida Bar YLD/Local Bar Associations: Melissa Mora– president of Hillsborough County Bar Association’s YLD

• Judicial Panel (will be moderated by Joe Varner, see above) Hon. Charles R. Wilson (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit) Hon. Catherine Peek McEwen (U.S. Bankr. Crt. for the Middle Dist. of Fl.) Pending invitation out to Hon. Steven D. Merryday

2. On October 06, 2016, Jay Korch will moderate a PWP seminar at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Miami.

3. On February 08, 2016, Eric Elms will moderate a PWP seminar at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando.

4. On April 06, 2016, Dane Heptner will moderate a PWP seminar at St. Pete Marriott Clearwater in St. Petersburg.

5. On May 04, 2016, Stephanie Myron will moderate a PWP seminar at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Miami.

ONLINE PWP UPDATE

The online PWP program rolled out and the committee is in the process of reviewing the attendees’ responses to the surveys along with evaluation summaries of the surveys. Many of the early evaluations mention technical issues which were resolved. After our review, we will propose recommendations to the Board. We will also be reviewing the PWP video footage and create a list/log of sections that will likely require updates.

Pro Bono Committee

We have two separate pro bono events that we are promoting for the Joint BOG meeting. The first event is an “Ask a Lawyer” pro bono project that we will be participating in

with the OLD. On the Friday of Joint (7/21), we will have the ability to log into a system through the ABA and answer questions on specific topics. We are currently working on a way to log the questions so that we can tell how many were completed through the YLD and through the OLD and compete to have the most participation and questions answered. We would then award an additional point during “Battle of the Boards” for whoever had the most participation. We will provide additional information on this project in the next few weeks.

The second event is supporting Lotus House, a woman’s shelter in Miami. They are

hosting an event in Miami on July 22nd. We would like to encourage members to participate in the event, but we will also be collecting items to donate to Lotus House for those who do not wish to attend in person. I will be collecting the items during our meeting and will then drop off the items during the event on July 22nd. We will be reaching out the OLD to dominate items as well.

The items we will be collecting for Lotus House are as follows: MOST URGENT NEEDS • Diapers in size 4, 5, and 6 • Toilet Paper • NEW Children's Underwear: all sizes • NEW Children's Socks: all sizes • NEW Women's Bras: Small, Medium & Large • Baby Lotion • Baby Wash • Children's School Uniforms: White & Hunter Green Polos, Khaki bottoms, all sizes • Kids tooth brushes • Kids toothpaste • 2-in-1 Shampoo • Razors • Soap Bars (Dove or Dial) • Garbage Bags • NEW Bath Towels • NEW Face Towels • NEW Pillows • NEW Twin Size Bed in a Bag • Deodorant • Bleach • Mops • Brooms • Car Seats • Strollers

• Cribs • Toddler Beds FOR WOMEN • Pads: Regular or Super in original packaging • Toiletries: We use these items for supply bags so prefer regular size, not travel • + 2 in 1 Shampoo: 8 oz + • + Bars of Soap • + Deodorant • Disposable Razors • Underwear (all sizes panties and bras) • Socks (all sizes) • Flat, walking shoes (all sizes, no flip flops please) • Bathrobes, nightwear (all sizes) • Throw blankets; shawls • Pocket size calendars/agendas • Pill boxes YOUTH • Notebooks, pens, pencils, markers, school supplies • School backpacks • School uniforms • Socks (all sizes) • Laptops • Toiletries (ex. wash, shampoo, conditioner, lotion and powder) • Underwear (all sizes panties and bras) • Gym shoes (all sizes) ARTS & CRAFTS • Construction paper – all colors • Child safe colored markers; crayons • Paint (watercolor, school paint, and finger paint, all colors and sizes); paintbrushes • Craft supplies (craft sticks, glue bottles, cookie cutters, stencils, wiggle eyes, colored

pipe cleaners, and stickers) • Child safe scissors (round edge, plastic) • Tape (masking, colored, scotch) • Dry erase markers; erasers • Sidewalk chalk • Poster boards; felt boards and story pieces; magnetic boards and letters • Easels; chalk boards BABY • Diapers 4, 5 & 6 • Hypoallergenic baby toiletries for Supply Bags • Full Size Bottles of Baby Wash • Full Size Bottles of Baby Lotion

• Bottles, bottle warmers, teething rings • Newborn, infant and toddler clothing (to age 3) • Crib sized and floor quilts for babies • Baby blankets • Bassinets; cribs; mobiles • Stroller/car seat combinations; double strollers • Car seats (new or less than 2 years old) **Please NO Baby Powder and Baby Wipes SUPPLIES • Bleach, dish soap, cleaning supplies, and sponges • Mops, brooms, trash containers • Plastic bins with lids, all sizes (ex., container store stacking drawers) • Twin size sheet and comforter sets • Alarm clocks, watches • Fans • Irons; ironing boards • Dish sets and pot sets • Silverware; serve ware; knife sets • Reams of white copy paper • Pens, pencils, sharpeners, erasers, paper clips, large clips, whiteout • USB flash drives • Batteries – AA, C, D • Plastic storage bins with covers – large • Paper/plastic goods and supplies: plates; bowls; plastic ware; cups; tablecloths • Bacterial hand soap • Basic tools • Garden tools Additional information can be found at: https://lotushouse.org/wishlist/ For the remainder of the year, we would like to promote the new Florida Bar Foundation

Pro Bono Website. We are reaching out to Erica Garcia to determine the best way to promote the website. It is a new tool to connect attorneys throughout Florida with pro bono cases. We will be creating a short (1 minute) video to explain how to use the website and encourage others to use the website to take on pro bono cases. We will then promote the website through the video on all social media outlets. We need to have the video finalized before pro bono month in October. Please let me know if you are interested in working with this project.

This year we will also revamp the pro bono webpage on the YLD website. We want to

combine the page with the community service page. We would like to feature pro bono and community service projects from the AOC grants. We would also like to change the webpage format to make it more user friendly.

We are trying to have pro bono projects during the remaining YLD meetings:

We would like to reach out to JALA (Jacksonville Area Legal Aid) to have a project during our meeting in Amelia Island in August. Please let me know if you would like to take the lead to reach out to JALA and get ideas for a pro bono project during that meeting. We could also do a drive like we are doing for Lotus House.

During the JW board meeting in September, we are going to have either Paige or Jewel

speak to the board about becoming a Florida Bar Foundation Fellow. Our goal is to have every board member become a Fellow by the end of that meeting. It is important that our board lead by example and support the Foundation and then we can promote the Foundation to our local constituents and encourage them to become Fellows as well. We could try to do a social media competition and have our affiliates compete to see who can get the most young lawyer members to commit to be Fellows. I am open to any ideas you may have for how we can make this work.

For our project in January for AOC in St. Pete, I would like to find a way to get the

affiliates to join in a project. Maybe we could have the affiliates report their results for the Fl Bar Foundation pro bono cases during AOC and we can announce the winner during AOC.

In May we have our meeting in Hawks Kay. We can try to find a local organization in the

keys to support. We are open to any suggestions on a collection/project for this meeting. Please let me know if any of you are interested in taking the lead on this.

We are looking forward to a great year!

PR Director Report

• The Real Book of Faces is now available via drop box on the YLD Website. Zack sent out a link, along with a password to access the Board Profiles. Please download a copy and share it with your significant other. If you discovery any errors, please let me know.

• Significant dates of YLD events have been placed on the calendar on the YLD Website. If there is a significant date that you know of that is not on there, please let me know. The current version of the calendar is not the best, so we are currently working on a better version.

• If you are a committee chair and you have events that we need to promote, please get with me so that we can develop a schedule/strategy.

• I have begun the process of drafting a 3 minute speech for our Board to give to their local affiliates. The speech has been passed on to various committees for comment and we are now ready to share it with you. Below is the current version. If you have any suggests/comments, please let me know.

YLD – Elevator Speech 2017-2018

My name is [_________] and represent the [______]Judicial Circuit on the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors. I am one of approximately 60 representatives of the Florida Bar YLD. You are automatically a member of the YLD if you have practiced for less than 5 years or are under the age of 36. I am often asked, what does the YLD do? Simply put, we are the “work horse” of The Florida Bar, and we work hardest for you, our members. We do this by advocating for, educating, and serving Florida young lawyers. Some examples include:

• Producing all of the Basic CLEs that young lawyers are required to take in their first 3 years of practice including Practicing with Professionalism. Through our efforts, those are now offered online, without the mandatory in-person attendance requirement. We also create and host webinars with free CLEs.

• We have created a website, startmyfloridalawfirm.com to help young lawyers learn the tools they need to start their own law firm. This website includes information on everything from choosing a corporate structure to how to comply with trust accounting rules. This website also has how-to videos on topics such as handling an initial client meeting, initiating a personal injury suit, and preparing for mediation.

• We host a yearly Affiliate Outreach Conference where our affiliates, which are local young lawyer bar associations and sections (like yourselves [if applicable]) and other volunteer bar associations (like yourselves [if

applicable]), share ideas on community outreach programs and we award approximately $50,000.00 in grants to those affiliates to continue their important programs. This year’s conference will take place January 12-13, 2018 at the beautiful Vinoy in St. Petersburg, Florida.

That is only a small fraction of the work that we do for you. Some of the most important work that we do is to advocate for young lawyers. Just recently, we impressed upon the The Florida Bar Board of Governors the importance of the proposed Parental Leave Continuance Rule for all young lawyers. With our assistance, that groundbreaking rule was passed by the Board of Governors with unanimous support. We are your voice within The Florida Bar, so please make sure to share your ideas and opinions on topics important to you with your local YLD representative. If you want to know what the YLD can do for you contact me anytime, or visit our website at Flayld.org. We are here to work for you.

Technology Committee Report

The Technology Committee is looking forward to a great year, and will work on accomplishing the following initiatives.

1. Assembling and Hosting “Technology Roadshows” with Adriana Linares, The Florida Bar’s legal technology consultant. We have actively reached out to start the initial engagement for the Technology Roadshows; at this time we are exploring details around the CLE approval status and to confirm the site of the first event. These course will be offered in conjunction with local bar associations, and focus on practical, relevant technology issues. Local bars will keep the money generated from registrations and the local YLD governor will handle introductions to the CLE and use the first few minutes to play our Who We Are Video and pre-packaged elevator pitch on benefits offered by the YLD, helping brand the YLD and promoting the connection between the YLD and local affiliates.

2. Tech Tips. We will work with the Communications Team to include in the YLD eNewsletter a “Trending in Tech” section where the we will share a few recent developments from new practice resources to developments in technology related case law.

3. Digital Accessibility Handbook. The Tech Team is also starting the initial research for the development of a Digital Accessibility handbook that is to include AG WG (Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) best practices for ensuring websites meet ADA online accessibility standards. This is intended to be a handbook of best practices that will provide guidance for those with public facing websites such as affiliate bars or even law offices. Additional work is being aligned to support the technology initiatives of The Big Board.

4. Updating the Technology Page on the YLD Website. We will be reviewing the content of our current Technology Page to review content for relevancy and accuracy and to give suggestions for improving the Technology Page.

5. Research the Viability of an Online Forum/Messaging Board. We will be reviewing whether the YLD should develop a website or messaging board to connect young lawyers to communicate on topics like sharing of office space, staff, etc.

Transition to Practice (T2P) Committee Report – July 2017 YLD BOG Meeting Santo DiGangi Andrew Pickett The Transition to Practice Committee’s main objective this year is to create a website which we are currently calling a “Legal Accelerator.” This website will serve as a one stop hub for Florida’s young lawyers to get answers to common questions they may have as they transition to the practice of law. The YLD currently has a large number of resources available to young lawyers including how-to videos, webinars, basic CLEs, blogs, and much more, but they are scattered across multiple websites making them hard to find. This website, which is housed behind The Florida Bar’s member portal and is only accessible by Florida Bar members, will serve as a repository for these resources. Similar to Google, the site will be easily searchable and will be organized in a way to make it as user friendly as possible to find answers to common young lawyer questions. Our goal is to create hundreds, and one-day thousands, of 3-minute videos by experienced practitioners that will answer questions regarding professional development, ethics, The Florida Bar, and even substantive legal matters. We want to make this website, the only of its kind in the country, the first stop for Florida young lawyers on their search for a solution to whatever issue they are facing. Our committee has already been hard at work coming up with close to 200 hundred questions for experienced practitioners to record video answers. Our pilot program for recording answers is occurring at this joint meeting with the Board of Governors (we even made the attached flyer). We have provided the approximately 200 questions to the BOG members in advance of this meeting and will have a room set up all day Thursday near the BOG meeting room for BOG members to come by and record answers to a few of the questions of their choosing. We will have multiple iPads to record their answers so feel free to stop by the room and thank the BOG members for their time. We are hoping to get at least 100-125 videos recorded on Thursday! The committee will be working closely with Holly Clark on creating the website. We are in the final stages of finalizing a site map for the website and once that is done, Holly will begin designing the site. We will need the entire Board’s assistance in coming up with questions and utilizing the Board’s contacts for experienced practitioners who are willing to record answers to our questions for the website. Additionally, the T2P committee will continue to create how-to videos, and our goal is to record videos for a family law case and a commercial case. We are excited to premiere this new website at AOC. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to contact Santo or Andrew.

YLD LEGAL ACCELERATOR QUESTIONS

Calling all BOG Members!

The YLD Transition to Practice Committee is cordially inviting all BOG members to participate in the creation

of its Legal Accelerator website.

The committee is kindly requesting BOG members record 3 short videos that will answer common

questions being faced by young lawyers.

Each video will be between 2 – 4 minutes

WHEN: July 20, 2017 BOG/YLD Joint Meeting 9:00AM – 3:30PM

WHERE: Near the BOG Meeting Room

Questions for Legal Accelerator Professional Development

1. Do you recommend taking another bar exam(s)? 2. What are the benefits to being admitted in multiple state bars as a Florida

attorney? 3. Should I become admitted to the Federal bar? And if so, how do I do that? 4. How important is it for lawyers to specialize? 5. How many organizations should I be involved in this year? It depends I am sure,

but what is average? 6. What type of leadership roles should I be seeking in my first few years? 7. How important are bar organizations v. non-bar/local organizations? 8. How important is it to get involved with national organizations? 9. Differences and pros/cons of being involved in practice sections v. YLD boards? 10. Is it appropriate to introduce yourself to another attorney via LinkedIn, and if so,

what advice do you have for the message contained in the body and subject line of the LinkedIn message?

11. What are the best uses of my business cards? 12. What are your suggested best practices for utilizing social media to enhance my

professional profile in the community? 13. The extent I should get involved in voluntary bar associations during first year of

practice and still be able to handle a work load. 14. Do/should I join an Inn of Court? 15. How do I ask for an additional assistant? 16. How do I ask for a raise? 17. How do I discuss a bonus? 18. Should I switch jobs? 19. How do I speak with my boss about taking a new practice area? 20. Should I hang my own shingle? 21. When/how do I bring up partnership at my firm? 22. How do I bring in more business? 23. How do I discuss joining more organizations with my firm as a way to bring in

more business? 24. What can be considered a business expense with my firm? How do I discuss

what can be expensed with my firm? 25. Best practices when working with co-counsel from another firm. 26. How to assert yourself when asked to communicate with more experienced

opposing counsel. 27. How I deal with underperforming staff? 28. How do I approach my boss about an issue with staff? 29. What should I include in an engagement letter? 30. How do you best deal with a client who doesn’t pay? 31. Can I apply for the Florida Bar’s Leadership Academy if I am an out of state

attorney?

32. I work for a partner who does not always answer my emails and ignores the questions within them, which I often need the answers to before I take further action. How should I handle this?

33. My firm assigns me a great deal of non-billable work and I am worried I won’t make my annual billable hours or get a raise because of it. What should I do?

34. When the boss usually assigns you everything you work on, how can one start generating business as an associate at a small firm?

35. How can someone transition from working solo or in a small firm to a large law firm? What are things to watch out for?

36. How did you learn to discern the advice of senior attorneys? a. How did you know their advice is sound? b. How do you politely and professionally decline their advice?

37. Technology plays a major role in today’s society, have you used social media to build your network? If so, how beneficial has it been for you?

38. How do you build a client base while working in a firm environment? 39. When is a good time to move laterally between firms if you do not want to hurt

your chances of making partner? 40. How much work should I be generating on my own as a mid-level associate? 41. Case intake: how do I bring in a new client and open a matter? 42. I feel like I come from a generation who is unsure of how to best use support staff

and most of the time feel like I can do things just as quickly but have to remember that is not efficient or cost-effective. How should I be asking my assistant and paralegal to assist my practice?

43. How do I find out about in-house jobs? 44. What types of organizations should I join for business development that are not

completely made up of attorneys? 45. Should I round up or down when billing my hours? 46. My friend has a legal issue and I believe the firm can help – should I speak with a

partner on how to develop this business? Or, should I go at it alone? 47. In a big firm environment, how do I seek out work from a new practice group? 48. What is the best way to show that I am working hard – being an early bird or

burning the midnight oil? 49. How do I balance maintaining my practice while trying to network and originate

business? a. How do I approach this with partners who only think of billable hours? b. How do I approach this with my spouse/family?

50. How do I balance maintaining my practice while becoming active in professional organizations requiring travel?

a. How do I approach this with partners who only think of billable hours? b. How do I approach this with my spouse/family?

51. When a partner/other attorney calls me in to work on a project, what are the important questions I should ask to make the project/assignment go smoothly?

52. What are some general tips on fielding referral calls with prospective clients? 53. How to handle the partner who gives assignments but doesn’t fully explain what

he/she wants. 54. Do I need to be concerned about bringing clients into my firm as an associate?

55. I don’t know what is expected of me to become partner, other than a vague idea that I have to be at the firm a long time. How do I learn what is really required from me so that I know the goals I should meet?

56. Do I have to “buy in” to become a partner at my firm? 57. Will I be expected to generate a certain number of new clients as a partner? 58. How do I know that I want to stay at the firm and work hard to become partner,

when I don’t really even know what it means once I get there? 59. I am a new attorney, and I already made a mistake on my work. Am I going to

get fired? How do I address mistakes with my boss? 60. I am a senior associate and have realized that my firm is “outdated” when it

comes to their website, marketing, software, or some other aspect of their practice. I have some great ideas on how we can bring the firm into the modern era, but I’m not sure how to get the partners to listen to a mere associate. Is there any way I can get my voice heard, or should I stay quiet until I eventually have a seat at the table?

61. What is the best way to utilize my assistant? 62. What should I have my assistant be doing for me? 63. What is the best way to utilize my paralegal? 64. What should I have my paralegal be doing on files? 65. What to do when a shareholder gives you an assignment you don’t have time

for? 66. Is Avvo rating important to your practice in general? What do you do to get high

rating with Avvo? 67. Where to find affordable and competent accountant for first year solo

practitioners? 68. Best practices on cross-selling? For example, bringing a client in to your firm but

who will be working with another attorney. Like litigation attorney bringing in client for estate planning. What are the best practices and tips for doing this?

69. Best practices in managing emails/inbox. 70. Benefits of getting involved in the ABA v. Florida Bar v. Local Bar v. Federal Bar. 71. What types of things should I focus on/highlight during my annual review with my

firm? Ethics and Professionalism

1. My friends are asking for free legal advice, how do I respond? 2. Who handles paying for meals? As a student, while I offered, no one usually let

me pick up the tab. How much do I insist now on paying? 3. Can you email or message an in-house counsel attorney, or is that considered a

prohibited solicitation under Florida professional responsibility rules? 4. How do you report another attorney? 5. What is the difference between a local bar grievance, reporting to the Florida Bar,

and a malpractice claim? 6. What are some best practices for avoiding ethics and professional responsibility

violations when communicating with a client/opposing parties? 7. Discussing cases/clients with friends and family. 8. Best practices for documenting decision-making in a file.

9. How to document decision-making in a file when client does not want to pay for the additional communications/status reports?

10. What decisions do I make and what decisions does my client make? 11. Isn’t there a hotline to ask ethics questions anonymously? 12. Best practices in communicating with clients. 13. Best practices when dealing with a pro se party. 14. My opposing counsel told me over the phone he would grant an extension for

discovery. Should I trust him, or is there something else I should do to be safe? 15. How have you handled a situation where opposing counsel, a senior attorney,

recommends a solution that conflicts with a court order? 16. How do you disconnect or prevent engaging in relationships with other attorneys

that may damage your professional reputation? 17. What is the best way to handle a person represented by counsel who continues

to contact you after you have informed them that you cannot speak to them about their case?

18. How have you corrected intentional misrepresentations filed by a previous attorney?

19. What should I do if the partner I work for asks me to do something which I believe is unethical?

20. What should I do if the partner I work for asks me to do something which I believe is unprofessional?

21. Am I responsible for running a conflicts check? 22. If a client asks if I recommend he go to the press with his case, how should I

answer? 23. If a client insists on secretly recording phone conversations with the other party in

the lawsuit, what should my advice be? 24. If my client, while testifying in court, lies, and I know she has lied, what should I

do? 25. If an opposing party calls me and asks if they should retain an attorney, what

should I do? 26. If a partner in my firm requests that I advocate a position that is not supported by

controlling case law, what should I do? 27. If a juror contacts me during trial, what should I do? 28. If a juror sends me a friend request on Facebook what should I do? 29. If a juror writes a Facebook post about me/opposing party or counsel/the case,

what should I do? 30. If a represented party contacts me directly during litigation, what should I do? 31. If opposing counsel inadvertently sends me privileged documents during

discovery what should I do? 32. Best practices to minimize my security risk as a firm employee, especially with

regard to hacking threats and information breaches (e.g. does plugging my personal phone into my work computer to charge via USB present a concern?)

33. What do you do when your opposing counsel is irresponsive? 34. What do you do if your boss is acting unethically?

Substantive and Procedural Legal Questions 1. What resources are there for administrative law cases (may be too broad of a

question). 2. What is lawyers advising lawyers? 3. Help for transactional v. litigation associate. 4. General rules/laws/tips on mediations. Example, the confidentiality rules that you

need to know (though I guess a mediator typically goes over that). 5. General rules/laws/tips on depositions. Example, objections should they be

specific or just “object to the form”? Can you ask leading questions of your own client? Speaking objections?

6. Pleading differences in Federal and State court. Ex. Can’t re-plead all the above paragraphs for each count, must be specific for Federal Court (though good practice to not re-plead everything anyways).

7. Local rules for practicing in state v. federal court. 8. Locating Judge’s preferences. 9. Under Florida law and Federal law, what are the limits on number of

interrogatories you can ask, request to produce, and request to admit? 10. What is the difference between local counsel and pro hac vice 11. Good faith conferences for motion practice. 12. How do you withdraw as counsel? 13. What do you need to do once a case is closed? 14. How do you check the docket in different state courts? Or federal court? 15. When you file something via JAWs or other online portal, do you need to mail in

hard copies/envelopes for other parties who do not receive the e-mail/electronic copies? This might very too much from court to court.

16. How do I get the Court to enter an order after a ruling? 17. What information do you need to redact during document production during

discovery? 18. When you respond to discovery requests, what do you file with the court?

Example Requests to Produce you file the response but the documents only go to the other parties and not the court.

19. Subpoenas for non-parties (trial, depositions, and document production) 20. When you count days for court deadlines, what do you count and when do you

start counting? a. Federal v. State court.

21. Rules of Judicial Administration – consideration of public holidays/weekends? 22. What is eCourtesy? 23. How do I notice a hearing? 24. What is the difference between a Clerk's default and a judicial default? 25. How many days do you have to respond to discovery when served via email in a

Florida state court? 26. What is Court Call? 27. How do I domesticate a foreign judgment? 28. How do I find the registered agent for a business? 29. Do I need to e-file discovery requests? 30. How do I complete service by publication?

31. If I am litigating in a new court, what rules should I check? 32. What is a “rogg”? 33. What is a “dep”? 34. How do I draft a settlement agreement and ensure my client is protected from all

future liabilities related to the matter? 35. What are best practices for large document productions? How do I find out about

document production platforms? 36. I have been out of law school for too long and could greatly benefit from a review

of most effective use of Boolean terms. 37. Resources to help non-tech savvy young lawyers comprehend modern practice

issues (e.g. cloud practice management software, SAAS agreements vs. UELAs, due diligence in e-discovery)

38. What iphone/android apps are safe to use with firm information (i.e. dropbox for storage, scanner apps for document upload and sending, Outlook applications for work email, Evernote for productivity on the go, etc..)

39. Low cost or free legal research resources to minimize overhead with new solo practice

40. How trusting should I be of secondary sources? 41. Issues related to BYOD (bring your own device)? 42. Does the firm use WestLaw or Lexis and if not familiar with it, is there a crash

course to learn? 43. When conducting legal research, how do you know when you’ve found all you’re

going to find on an issue? – In other words, how do you know when to call it quits, write your memo, and present your findings?

44. How does one properly begin a complaint/answer/any drafting assignment that you may not have done before?

45. When filing something with page limits on it, does the certificate of service and attachments count towards that page limit?

The Florida Bar – Requirements and Governance

1. What basic CLE’s do I need to take my first year and which ones can I do online? 2. Are there any FL Bar requirements regarding pro bono hours or monetary

donations? 3. Is it better to donate money or volunteer my time for pro bono? 4. Can first year associates really be of assistance in a pro bono case? What if the

areas for volunteering are not in your practice area? 5. What organizations can I volunteer with? 6. Do I have to handle a case alone if I volunteer? 7. What are the differences between the Florida Bar, which is a mandatory bar, and

other state's voluntary bar associations? 8. How is The Florida Bar governed? 9. How many members are on the Board of Governors for The Florida Bar? 10. What districts do the Board of Governors represent and what are their terms? 11. Are there out of state members on the Board of Governors? 12. How many governors are in the Young Lawyers Division?

13. What districts do the YLD Board of Governors represent and what are their terms?

14. What is the technology CLE requirement? 15. If I live out of state, do I need to attend the Practicing with Professionalism class? 16. If I perform pro bono work within the state where I live, does that count toward

my Florida Bar pro bono reporting requirements? 17. Where can I find information on reciprocity with Florida? 18. How can I get a Certificate of Good Standing so I might be admitted to other

courts pro hac vice? 19. How can I find out more about Florida Bar events in my area? 20. How can I connect with other Florida attorneys who live in my state? 21. Where can I find free resources to help me fulfill my CLE requirements? 22. Do I need to sit for another state’s bar exam if I plan to work in house? 23. Can I litigate in Florida courts as lead counsel if I am licensed in Florida but

reside out of state? 24. Can I get Florida credit for the CLEs I take for my out of state bar? 25. What type of misconduct would you report to the Florida Bar? 26. What is Board Certification? 27. How do I know if I qualify for Board Certification? 28. Should I become Board Certified? 29. How do I manage my practice and caseload while studying for Board

Certification? 30. What if Board Certification is not available in my specific field of law? 31. Does the bar automatically track your pro-bono hours? If not, how do you submit

hours? Lawyer Well-Being

1. What are some of the best tips for making your billable hour requirements? 2. How do you manage to take vacations? 3. How many hours a day should I be working? 4. How do I bill appropriately and efficiently?

o Descriptions/detail. o Methods/software to calculate/record time.

5. What are hotline numbers available to attorneys who need to talk? (suicide/addictions/mental health etc.)

6. If I am not getting enough work, how do you ask for more work to do? 7. How do I communicate that I have too much work? 8. I am struggling with some anxiety as a young attorney, does the Florida Bar have

any resources to help me with this? 9. I have a colleague who seems to be drinking often and I am worried about him, is

there someone I can contact anonymously to get him help without getting him in trouble?

10. I am pregnant and do not want to tell anyone until I am at least past the three months’ point. Is this too long to wait to tell my boss and the court?

11. I work at a small firm and just found out I am pregnant. What should I expect when I tell my employer and do I have any protected rights?

12. I work at a firm in an office with at least 50 people and just found out I am pregnant. What should I expect when I tell my employer, and do I have any protected rights?

13. My wife is pregnant and our firm has a maternity leave policy for new mothers, but does not mention paternity leave. Am I entitled to paternity leave as a new father?

14. For parents, how do you balance working and spending time with kids? This is a loaded question that could be the subject of its own website.

15. How do I ask for vacation time? 16. Should I receive office mail on my personal smart device? If so how “available”

should I be? Am I failing a standard of care if I’m not available at all hours? 17. Can my office require me to use personal devices for work, or are they required

to provide one? 18. I’m really stressed out, and don’t know if I can handle this work anymore. Is this

normal? 19. What is the company culture like? 20. Should I wear a suit every day? Is there a casual Friday? 21. What is your least favorite aspect of the legal profession? 22. What is the most challenging aspects of the legal profession? 23. How long until it is appropriate to take a vacation? 24. How much time should I take off/ask for after the bar before I start working? 25. What is the best retirement plan for a solo practitioner?

Webinars Committee Report The committee is currently planning out our programs for the year. Webinars will take place monthly (or bi-monthly) on the same date and time each month. We intend to contact Florida Bar section leaders to get more involvement from younger lawyers as speakers in our series.

Submission from BOG Member, Jay Cohen, for BLSE review and consideration.

BLSE Policy [BOG Approval Needed]6.03 CARRY OVER OF EXCESS CLE CREDIT PROHIBITEDThe member must complete the required CLE within the member’s current reporting cycle to maintain active membership in the bar. CLE credit may not be counted for morethan 1 reporting cycle, and may not be carried forward to subsequent reporting cycles.and Repeating a course during a member’s CLER reporting cycle, or any subsequentcycle is not a basis for additional credit. If a member completes more than 33 credithours of CLE Credit during their three-year reporting cycle, the excess credit hours maybe carried forward and applied to the education requirement for the succeedingreporting cycle.

RULE 6-10.3 (b) [SUPREME COURT APPROVAL NEEDED]

Minimum Continuing Legal Education Standards

(b) Minimum Hourly Continuing Legal Education Requirements. Each membermust complete a minimum of 33 credit hours of approved continuing legal educationactivity every 3 years. Five of the 33 credit hours must be in approved legal ethics,professionalism, bias elimination, substance abuse, or mental illness awarenessprograms and 3 of the 33 credit hours must be in approved technology programs, whichare included in, not in addition to, the regular 33 credit hour requirement. If a membercompletes more than 33 credit hours during any reporting cycle, the excess creditscannot be carried over to the next reporting cycle.

Comment from Florida Bar Staff: If the BLSE feels this goes too far, maybe the middleground is to permit some number of excess CLE credit hours above the 33 requiredcredit hours to be carried over to the next reporting cycle.

Exhibit E

BLSE Rules & Policies Subcommittee Alternative Proposal

BLSE Policy [BOG Approval Needed]6.03 CARRY OVER OF EXCESS CLE CREDIT PROHIBITEDThe member must complete the required CLE within the member’s current reporting cycle to maintain active membership in the bar. CLE credit may not be counted for morethan 1 reporting cycle, and may not be carried forward to subsequent reporting cycles.and Repeating a course during a member’s CLER reporting cycle, or any subsequentcycle is not a basis for additional credit. If a member completes more than 33 credithours of CLE Credit during their three-year reporting cycle, no more than 12 generalcredit hours, 2 credit hours in ethics, professionalism, bias elimination, substanceabuse, or mental illness awareness programs, and 1 technology credit hour may becarried forward and applied to the education requirement for the succeeding reportingcycle.

RULE 6-10.3 (b) [SUPREME COURT APPROVAL NEEDED]

Minimum Continuing Legal Education Standards

(b) Minimum Hourly Continuing Legal Education Requirements. Each membermust complete a minimum of 33 credit hours of approved continuing legal educationactivity every 3 years. Five of the 33 credit hours must be in approved legal ethics,professionalism, bias elimination, substance abuse, or mental illness awarenessprograms and 3 of the 33 credit hours must be in approved technology programs, whichare included in, not in addition to, the regular 33 credit hour requirement. If a membercompletes more than 33 credit hours during any reporting cycle, the excess creditscannot be carried over to the next reporting cycle. no more than 12 general credit hours,2 credit hours in ethics, professionalism, bias elimination, substance abuse, or mentalillness awareness programs, and 1 technology credit hour may be carried forward andapplied to the education requirement for the succeeding reporting cycle.

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DIVISION BYLAWS

BYLAWS OF THE LAW STUDENT DIVISION OF THE FLORIDA BAR YOUNG LAWYERS DIVISION

ARTICLE I

GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 1. Name. The name of this organization shall be the “Law Student Division,” a division of The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division. Section 2. Purpose. The purpose of the Law Student Division (the “Division”) is to: (1) assist The Florida Bar and The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division (the “YLD”) in their purposes; (2) encourage interest in and participation by Division members in the purposes of The Florida Bar and the YLD; (3) provide a program of activities and projects designed to be of interest and assistance to Division members and which further the best interests of the legal profession; (4) coordinate the activities of the Division members and to serve as a medium for fostering discussion and free interchange of ideas relative to the duties, responsibilities, and problems of Division members; (5) promote professionalism, mentoring, and the image and reputation of the legal profession, The Florida Bar and the YLD; (6) serve the public, particularly those persons outside the legal profession, through statewide and local service projects and activities; (7) encourage and promote diversity in all areas of the study and practice of law; and, (8) act as liaison between Florida law schools, the YLD, and The Florida Bar. Section 3. Status. The Division is a division of the YLD. The YLD’s constitution and bylaws and action taken under its authority supersedes and controls the Division and these Bylaws. Section 4. Authority. These Bylaws and action taken under their authority that is not inconsistent with the YLD’s constitution and bylaws are the basis for the conduct of all business in the Division.

ARTICLE II

DIVISION MEMBERSHIP Section 1. All law students enrolled in Florida law schools and in good standing with their respective schools (“members in good standing”) may join the Division. Section 2. All law students enrolled in any ABA accredited law school and in good standing with their respective schools (“members in good standing”) may join the Division.

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ARTICLE III

PRESIDENT OF THE DIVISION Section 1. President - Generally. There will be a President of the Division who at the time of taking office must be about to begin his or her second or third year of law school and is not graduating early. Early graduation will create a vacancy. Section 2. President Duties and Responsibilities. The President shall preside over all regular meetings of the Division and shall be responsible for maintaining communication between the YLD and the Division. The President shall also perform such other duties as the YLD or The Florida Bar may from time to time prescribe. Unless a secretary is appointed by the President, the President shall keep the records of the proceedings of the Division and of the Board, keep a roll of the board members in attendance, attend to correspondence, and issue notices of meetings.

ARTICLE IV APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENT OF THE DIVISION

Section 1. Appointment. The Division Board of Governors shall vote on the position of President and propose up to three nominees for the position of President to the YLD. The YLD President shall then appoint the Division President, but. The YLD President’s selection of President is not limited to the proposed nominees from the Division Board of Governors. The YLD President may also appoint one or more Law Student Division Chairs (“LSD Chairs”) to facilitate and further the mission of the Law Student Division. In the event LSD Chair(s) are appointed, they shall be members of the YLD Board of Governors. Section 2. Installment of President. The candidate appointed by the YLD President shall be installed in the office of President at the Annual Meeting of The Florida Bar. The President shall serve until a successor is appointed and installed. The same person shall not serve as president for two (2) successive years. Section 3. Vacancy of President’s Office. If the Division President’s office becomes vacant, the YLD President shall appoint a successor. The appointed successor mayshall be in his or her third year of law school.

ARTICLE V BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Section 1. Board Composition. There shall be a board of the Division, to be composed of the President and additional representatives from each and every law school in the State of Florida (“Board,” infra and supra). Each Florida law school shall adopt procedures to fill the Board seats. Each law school shall elect a 3L Board Member, a 2L Board Member and 1L Board Member. The 1L Board Member shall be elected at each law school during their first semester of first year and shall attend the Affiliate Outreach Conference or other such meeting as designated by the President of the Division as their first official meeting. Upon

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Comment [LF1]: Each law school shall have two Governor representatives per class for a total of six Governors per school. For each class there shall be an appointed Governor and an elected Governor. The appointments and elections will be conducted during the first semester of the first year of law school.

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being appointed President, the law school the President represents shall also conduct an election to fill that representative board member vacancy. In addition to the elected Board Members at each law school, the YLD President shall appoint a 3L Appointed Member, 2L Appointed Member, and 1L Appointed Member for each law school. Each law school is appointed a YLD Liaison to provide guidance to the law school chapter of the Division. Every law school shall have two Governor representatives per class. For each class there shall be a Governor appointed by the YLD President, and a Governor elected by his or her respective class. The appointments and elections will be conducted as soon as practicable during the first semester of law school. The Executive Board of the Law Student Division shall recommend procedures for the selection of all LSD Governors at the Annual Meeting of The Florida Bar for review and these procedures shall be approved by the YLD President. Revisions to the Governor election and appointment procedures may also occur as needed at the discretion of the YLD President. Section 2. Purpose. The Board shall provide an opportunity for networking and growth of the law schools in the State of Florida. The Board shall also assist the YLD in its endeavors, including the YLD's aim to provide a more seamless transition between law school and the practice of law. Section 3. Board Member Eligibility. To be eligible to serve on the Board, a member must be enrolled in at least six credit hours per fall and spring semester in a law school in the State of Florida, and be a member in good standing of the Division. Section 4. Board Member Retention. Each Board member in good standing may serve until the end of their 3L year. At the conclusion of each academic year the YLD liaison for each law school shall make a recommendation of retention for the 1L and 2L Governors at his or her assigned law school.

Section 5. Board Vacancies. A Board Vacancy is the result of created by the absence of a boardBoard member of the Division. An absence is defined as any time a boardBoard member is not enrolled in at least six credit hours per semesterfall and spring semesters or is not on campus for more than 4 consecutive weeks during the fall or spring semesters, including but not limited to transfers, study-abroad programs, medical or personal leave, etc. If procedures have not been adopted, the President shall consult with the board members from the subject law school and shall be responsible for filling any and all board vacancies resulting from the absence of any member from his or her law school. The individual appointed to fill the vacancy must be a member in good standing of the Division. If a board member transfers to another Florida law school, the YLD President, LSD Chair(s), and YLD Law School Liaison shall have the ability to determine whether that Board member can continue his or her duties at the new Florida law school. Vacancies created by the election of the LSD President, transferring Governors that are not retained, resignations, or other causes, shall be filled through publication during the 1L application period encouraging any eligible students interested in filling the vacancy to

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Comment [LF2]: We thought that if the vacancy can wait to be filled until the new governor process then the vacancy should be done by election. If not, then perhaps an appointment may be ok. But preferred elections.

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apply in accordance with the Board member election and appointment procedures. Vacancies will only be filled by appointment. The YLD President has the sole discretion to call for applications outside the 1L application period and fill any vacancy in the event the YLD President deems it necessary. Section 56. Board Member Duties and Responsibilities. In addition to the other duties and responsibilities of the board members set forth in these bylaws, boardBoard members shall be responsible for: (1) attending all meetings of the Division; (2) establishing or attempting to establish involvement in The Florida Bar throughout the law schools of the State of Florida; (3) keeping each of the law schools of the State of Florida and their administration advised of the rights, benefits, privileges, opportunities, programs and status of the YLD and The Florida Bar; (4) working with the Law School Liaisons appointed by the YLD to keep the members of the Division involved; (5) assisting the YLD in establishing and administering on campus programming to promote the purposes of the Division, the YLD and The Florida Bar; (6) planning and attending Raising the Bar events; (7) planning, promoting, and attending professionalism events with the Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism, (8) working with the Law School Liaisons and YLD to promote and administer the statewide Mentoring Program, and, (9) representing the Division at law school orientation events. Section 67. General Duty of Professionalism. A boardBoard member shall act with professionalism regarding all activities and responsibilities associated with the Division. A boardBoard member shall also uphold the image and reputation of the legal profession, The Florida Bar, and the YLD. Professionalism includes, but is not limited to, communicating with all boardBoard members and Division affiliates in a respectful manner at all times. Determination of whether an act or conduct fails to adhere to the Division’s standard of professionalism shall be the responsibility of the LSD Chair(s) and/or the YLD President and the Chair of the Law Schools Committee of the YLD.. Section 78. Official Communications. Any and all official communications, as defined by the Chair(s) of the Law SchoolsSchool Divisions Committee of the YLD, sent by or published by the Division shall be subject to approval by the LSD Chair of the Law Schools Committee of(s) and/or the YLD President.

ARTICLE VI MEETINGS

Section 1. Number of Meetings. The Board shall meet not less than four (4) times during each bar year. One (1) such meeting shall be held in conjunction with the Affiliate Outreach Conference of the YLD (or other such meeting designated by the President of the Division)

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and one (1) such meeting shall be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of The Florida Bar. The other two (2) meetings may be held via teleconference pursuant to Section 2 of this Article. Section 2. Teleconference. The Board may satisfy two (2) of the required meetings each year through teleconferencing. Unless the Division is otherwise able, the YLD shall provide the Board the means and opportunity to meet via teleconference. Section 3. Robert’s Rules of Order. Except as provided in these bylaws, the current version of Robert’s Rules of Order shall be the rules that govern the conduct of all meetings of the Division. Section 4. Quorum. A majority of the members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings.

ARTICLE VII COMMITTEES

Section 1. Executive. The President, with the approval and consent of the Board, may appoint an executive committee consisting of the President and at least four (4) and not more than six (6) other members of the Board. The executive committee by two-thirds (2/3) vote may exercise the powers of the Board during any period when the Board is not meeting, subject to such limitations as may be imposed by the Board or the YLD. Section 2. Bylaws Committee. There will be a bylaws committee to be composed of the President, and at least two (2) members of the Board to be named by the President. These members may suggest and submit amendments to these Bylaws to the Board of the Division for approval. The Board by two-third (2/3) vote may approve suggested bylaw amendments. Upon proper approval by the Board, the President or histheir appointee shall present said bylaw amendments to the YLD for approval. The YLD shall have sole and final authority to amend these bylaws. Section 3. Standing and Special Committees. The Board or the President may create such standing committees and such special committees as they may deem advisable and shall define the duties, functions, and scope of such committees thereof. Standing committees shall continue in existence until terminated by the Board; and special committees shall be terminated at the end of each President's term of office.

ARTICLE VIII AMENDMENTS

Section 1. Manner of Amendment. These bylaws may be amended only by approval of the YLD and a vote of the YLD's Board of Governors. A bylaws amendment can be made at any regularly scheduled YLD Board of Governors meeting. The Division may suggest and submit amendments to these bylaws from time to time as provided in Article VII, Section 2.

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Section 2. Vote Necessary for Adoption. A two-thirds (2/3) vote of the YLD Board members present and voting shall be necessary to adopt the proposed bylaw change.

ARTICLE IX BYLAWS INTERPRETATION

If any Board Member requests an interpretation of these Bylaws, or the President, or Chair of the Bylaws Committee deems confusion to exist regarding the Bylaws, then the YLD shall make the final determination as to the disputed interpretation. The determination of the Board of Governors, including the YLD President and YLD President-Elect, shall be deemed final.

ARTICLE X RECORDS

Section 1. Copies to President. It shall be the responsibility of every Board member to, upon request, furnish the President and Chair(s) of the Law Schools CommitteeSchool Division of the YLD a copy of all correspondence or other documents relating to the business of the Division. It shall be the responsibility of every Board member to, upon request, carbon copy the President and LSD Chair of the Law Schools Committee of the YLD(s) on all correspondence relating to the business of the Division. Section 2. Transfer of Files. Immediately following the installation of the President, the retiring president and all committee chairs shall deliver to the succeeding president their complete files relating to the Division activity. Section 3. Transfer of Records of the Division. Within a period of 30 days preceding the installation of a new presidentPresident, the new presidentPresident shall review the records of the Division and transfer to the YLD for storage those records of the Division that are more than 1 year old, and that, in the opinion of the presidentPresident are no longer active. The President shall report to the Board the records thus transferred.

ARTICLE XI GENDER CLAUSE

Unless the context otherwise requires, the singular shall include the plural and consistent with the policies of The Florida Bar, gender specific language shall not be employed.

ARTICLE XII FUNDING

The YLD may fund the Division each year with a portion of its budget or through sponsorships, which is subject to be changed in accordance with decision of the YLD. Each law school and its Division boardBoard members must comply with the provisions of these

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Bylaws and with the directives of the YLD with regard to programming in order to receive said funding.

ARTICLE XIII DIVISION ACTIONS

All acts of The Florida Bar Law Student Division shall be subject to the approval of The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors.

ARTICLE XIV

LAW SCHOOL REGISTRATION Each Division chapter may become a registered student organization of its law school at the sole discretion of, and approval by, the YLD President.

ARTICLE XV REMOVAL

Section 1. Removal of Board Members. The Division shall provide for the removal of any boardBoard member for cause as deemed appropriate by the LSD Chair of the Law Schools Committee of the YLD. Removal shall require a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the YLD Board after at least two (2) weeks' notice to the YLD Board and Chair of the Law Schools Committee of the YLD, and an opportunity for the board member to challenge any evidence against him or her.(s). The YLD Board may also provide for the suspension of any board member against whom a removal proceeding is pending. A removed boardBoard member may appeal his or her removal at the next official YLD Board meetingto the YLD President within fourteen (14) days of receiving notice of the removal. That appeal must be made in writing. Cause for removal may include, but is not limited to:

1. Missing two (2) consecutive mandatory meetings with or without prior approval by the Board Secretary;

2. Consistent failure to respond to communications dealing with Board business; 3. Consistent failure to adhere to Board directives; or 4. Failure to adhere to the general duty of professionalism provided above in Article V

Section 6.; or 5. Failure to substantially participate in Division events at the Board member’s law

school, as determined by the YLD President and/or the LSD Chair(s). Section 2. Removal of the President. The President may be removed by the process provided above in Article XV Section 1, or, at the collective discretion of the Chair of the Law Schools Committee of the YLD, YLD President and YLD President-Elect.

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Division Policies & Procedures

Electronic and Print Communications The Law Student Division requires approval by the YLD for all electronic and printed communications. Please follow the procedures set forth in this manual in order to get approval for said items prior to sending them out. Facebook The Law Student Division is proud to now have its own Facebook Fan Page. This page has been approved by the YLD. Please do not create other Law Student Division pages, groups, events, etc. on Facebook without approval by the YLD. Your Law Student Division President is happy to post any items you would like on our Facebook Page, and from there you may “share” it. Alcohol Law Student Division funds may not be used to purchase alcohol. Division events may have alcohol; however, Division funds cannot be used to pay for alcohol. In addition, please refrain from mentioning alcohol in event advertisements. For example, instead of using the term “Happy Hour” use “Networking Event.” Intellectual Property Please do not use or modify the Law Student Division logo without approval. E-mail your president with questions. Fundraising While the Law Student Division may participate in pre-existing fundraising events (such as Light the Night), the Law Student Division may not hold its own fundraising events, nor can the Law Student Division collect or hold any money. Further, Law Student Division members may not set up bank accounts in the name of the Law Student Division or any of its local affiliates. Finances The YLD provides the financial resources necessary to run the Law Student Division. The YLD plans a per-semester budget for each law school. Governors will be reimbursed for the approved expenses they incur in organizing events for the benefit of the Law Student Division as long as such reimbursement requests are submitted, along with receipts, within 30 days of purchase. Conference Expenses The cost of Law Student Division governors’ attendance at YLD conferences is subsidized by the YLD. Law Student Division governors receive this subsidy in the form of a reimbursement after the conference. No alcohol purchases will be reimbursed. The reimbursement form must be

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filled out properly for each school, and submitted no later than 2 weeks after the date of the conference. Again, receipts must be attached to the reimbursement request, or the reimbursement will not be processed.

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EVENT /COMMUNICATION APPROVAL PROCEDURE All events hosted, co-hosted, or involving The Law Student Division must be pre-approved by the YLD prior to the event taking place. This includes all electronic and printed communications pertaining to the event or leading up to the event. Approval is still required even if LSD funds are not being utilized for the event. Steps to Receive Event/Communication Approval: 1. Fill out the Event Request Form and/or& Communication Request Form located on Google Drive. 2. Email the completed form to yldlsdapprovals@gmail.com at least fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the event or date that the communication is intended to be sent out. 3. Wait to receive approval back from the Events/Logistics Committee Chair. 4. If errors exist, the Event/Logistics Committee Chair will communicate these errors to the governor who submitted the Event and/or Communication Request for revision and then the governor will need to correct and resubmit the form for approval. 5. If no errors exist, the Event/Logistics Committee Chair will let the governor who submitted the Event/Communication request form know that the event has been approved by the YLD. 6. If LSD funds were requested and approved prior to the event-taking place, the governor needs to fill out the Reimbursement Request Form located on Google Drive. 7. The completed Reimbursement Request Form and copies of all receipts must be sent to the Events/Logistics committee Chair no later than (7) days after the date of the event. The completed form can be sent by U.S. mail or may be scanned and e-mailed to yldlsdapprovals@gmail.com. Scanned copies will be accepted only if they are completely legible. 8. The Events/Logistics Committee Chair will submit the reimbursement request, which will be processed by YLD Program Administrator Tom Miller. 9. The Governor that requested the reimbursement will receive the reimbursement in the form of a check mailed to the address indicated on the Reimbursement Request Form.

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