The Virginia Women Attorneys Biennial Conference will be held on October 1 and 2, 2010, at Kingsmill Resort & Spa.  For further information, please click Virginia Women Attorneys Conference

The Virginia Bar Association has developed a Rule of Law Project.  It is a free program for middle school students in Virginia, funded by grants from the Virginia Law Foundation.  This web-based program aspires to inspire students to become active citizens by giving them a better understanding of the rule of law as the basis for the rights we enjoy and responsibilities we share.

For further information, please click Description of VBA Rule of Law Project

and visit the VBA Rule of Law Project website at www.ruleoflaw-vba.org

If there is sufficient interest and volunteers from CABA, Rhonda Quagliana, Jim Cox and Steve Rosenfield contemplate that CABA will participate this coming school year.

To express your interest in participating or to volunteer, please contact Jim Cox at jcox@michiehamlett.com

The Legal Aid Justice Center seeks a creative and highly motivated attorney to drive forward its Virginia Institutionalized Persons (VIP) Project.  For further information, please click Position Announcement - VIP Attorney

A change in Virginia law effective July 1, 2010, mandates the surrender of an out of state driver’s license in DUI cases.

For more information, please click  DMV 2010 Legislative Bulletin

This information is posted at the request of Judge Downer.

Charlottesville Albemarle Bar Association

Recognized for Achievements

The Charlottesville Albemarle Bar Association received an Award of Merit from the Virginia State Bar’s Conference of Local Bar Associations on June 18, 2010, during the bar’s annual meeting in Virginia Beach.

The award recognized a seminar — Senior Law Day: A Toolkit for Surviving Life’s Later Challenges — that the association sponsored in May. Speakers included a legal aid lawyer, a licensed clinical psychologist, a hospice physician, a hospital chaplain, and the director of the local area agency on aging. The bar association solicited sponsors to pay for publicity and a free lunch for attendees, and copies were provided of The Senior Citizens Handbook published by the Virginia State Bar. A local community-access television station broadcast the event live, and the station provided an audio recording for the bar to post on its website.

Awards of Merit recognize excellence in bar projects that serve the bench, the bar, and the people of Virginia.

The Conference of Local Bar Associations encourages cooperation among Virginia’s 155 local and specialty bar associations and acts as a clearinghouse for local bar leaders to share resources, programming ideas and information. It promotes the practice of law and the public’s better understanding of the law and the legal profession.