The Alabama State Bar President’s Council for Unity & Diversity Presents “Update Your Firm’s D&I Strategy: Best Practices for Increased Diversity, Inclusion & Equity in 2021” featuring Marcus Maples, Esq.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a CLE Program on the Evolution of Marriage Law
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Birmingham Bar Association presents a 1-hour virtual CLE featuring Attorney Heather Fann providing a captivating overview of how the law around marriage has evolved over history.
Ms. Fann will discuss the ways in which the law has treated families and has had to evolve to protect the rights of all couples who choose to marry, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and sexual orientation. Thank you to the Chairs of the BBA Diversity and Inclusion Committee: Christen Butler, Angela Kennedy, Sean Pierce and Abby van Alstyne. Register here.
Free Collaborative Law CLE
Join us on March 4, 2021, at noon for “Introduction to Collaborative Law Practice.” This is the first of a four-part series sponsored by the Alabama State Bar Dispute Resolution Section, the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution, the Dispute Resolution Section of the Birmingham Bar, and the Birmingham Collaborative Law Alliance.
This is a FREE live-webinar with Collaborative Law Practitioners Virginia Miller, Brian Turner, Frances Nolan, & Steven Gregory.
This course has been approved by the Alabama State Bar for 60 minutes of MCLE credit. You must register no later than March 3rd for the webinar. After you register you will receive a confirmation email with the log-in instructions. Register in advance here.
Features from the Bar
Featured Member Benefit: Lenovo
Get the most for your Benjamin’s during Lenovo’s President’s Day Sale. Shop deals through Feb. 21, 2021, while supplies last.
The Alabama Legislature will kick off the 2021 session tomorrow. As we did last year, we will share a Legislative Update via email each Friday during the session. We will track pertinent bills for our members, so watch your email for those Friday updates!
License plate pre-commitment forms now available!
Have you filled out your pre-commitment form yet? For the new Lawyers Render Service license plate?! Going on now - get your #licensetoheal today!
We Want to Feature You!
Lawyers are service-minded, and we want to show how you give back to our communities. Email us a photo depicting how you’re #MoreThanALawyer, and include relevant information.
News and Updates
Don't Forget about the Alabama State Bar's Classifieds Section!
The Alabama State Bar’s Classifieds is the hub for all of your classified advertising needs. Whether you’re a member of the bar looking for a fresh start with a new position, a lawyer or firm seeking the perfect person for that hard-to-fill legal or support staff job or someone with space to lease or seeking space to share, then you’ve come to the right place. Do you have old law books you’d like to find a home for or are you a legal vendor with products or services you’d like to market to Alabama State Bar members? Whatever the case, this is the place.
Appellate Court Information
Click here to view the Alabama Supreme Court decisions and opinions from Jan. 29
Click here to view the Criminal Appeals decisions and opinions
from Jan. 29
Click here to view the Civil Appeals decisions and opinions
from Jan. 29
National Black Students Law Association Anti-Racism Initiative 2021
Starting on February 11, 2021, from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. via Zoom, the Mindfulness in Law Society and NBLSA will co-host a series of monthly hour-long conversations where members of the legal community—from the newest law student or paralegal to the most senior practitioner or judge—can come together to break silences and learn from each other. Beginning with the humble act of speaking together, we hope to lift the burdens that our non-white friends and colleagues have been bearing nearly entirely alone.
Register and learn more about other Mindfulness in Law Society events here.
Volunteer Attorneys Needed
Alabama Free Legal Answers is an online portal that lets lawyers answer civil legal questions submitted by low-income Alabama residents. Alabama Free Legal Answers lets you do pro bono anywhere any time you have a few minutes free. Just login, choose any question you want and respond. It’s that easy! Volunteers are anonymous to the site's users and are covered by malpractice insurance.
Clients who register and qualify based on income can ask questions about topics such as consumer debts, housing, employment, inheritances, family law and other issues. We especially need volunteers who can answer family law questions. Administrators monitor questions to make sure they are all civil questions.
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Alabama State Bar
P.O Box 671
415 Dexter Ave.
Montgomery, AL 36111
(334) 269-1515
(800) 354-6154 Toll Free
The Alabama State Bar only sends email to its members on activities or events directly connected to the ASB, ASB's committees or sections, Alabama Supreme Court or Administrative Office of Courts. You can control the types of emails you receive from the ASB by logging onto www.alabar.org and changing your preferences.
