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JEN COATSWORTH FOR VICE CHANCELLOR communication using social media and other community centers to attract high school a large firm, I recognize that the needs and relevant platforms. students into the program and partner them concerns of our thousands of members who I also recently learned from a more with committees and sections within the practice as solo or small firms are different seasoned lawyer about a program that existed Association to increase their exposure to the and I will be reaching out to get your insights decades ago called Law Explorers Post. This profession. The best way to increase diversity as well. I want your input as to what our program originated and was sponsored by in our profession is by reaching out to young Association is doing well and how we can the Boy Scouts of America. Business and people to attract them to the profession. better serve you and your practice. However, professional groups throughout the country, These are just a few of the ideas that I please also don’t hesitate to reach out to such as bar associations, would sponsor have been developing, but I would like to me with your ideas and opinions. I can be a local “Explorers Post” for high school hear from you about what you’d like to see reached at jcoatsworth@margolisedelstein. students. The Post would have periodic from our Association. Over the course of com. meetings, provide opportunities for the Post this summer, I will be conducting a “listening If I have the privilege to serve as your 97th to network with people in the profession tour.” I will be reaching out to various leaders Chancellor, I promise to build on the rich or business, and take trips, among other in the large firms and to the executive traditions of our Association, and incorporate activities. Our Bar Association hosted an directors of each of the public interest both my ideas and yours into our future. I Explorers Post and as Chancellor, I would organizations in the City to schedule Zoom have boundless energy and enthusiasm, and a I am immensely humbled for the reinvigorate and expand this program. For calls with various members of the firms and deep love of the Association, which I will use outpouring of overwhelming support and instance, I would partner with the school organizations to hear from you. Although to move our Association forward. I humbly enthusiasm that I’ve received over the past district, local boys and girls clubs and I have spent the majority of my practice in ask for your vote. two months for the announcement of my Candidacy for Vice Chancellor. It is very gratifying to know that my work on behalf PHILADELPHIA BAR ASSOCIATION • Regional dinner co-chair, 2016-2019, of the Association for the past fifteen years LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE: • Membership Initiative, Chair, 2016-2019, is recognized and appreciated. I am so excited • Bylaws Committee, Member, 2015-2017 for the opportunity to work even harder for Board of Governors • Retreat Planning Committee, Chair 2017-2019, Member, 2011-present. the Association and for our legal community • Cabinet, 2015-present • Executive Council 2011–present and the community at large when elected. • Assistant Treasurer, 2021 • Pennsylvania Bar Association Zone 1 (Philadelphia) Governor, Judicial Evaluation Commission, 2017-present, Investigative division, Over the course of the past several 2020-present 2016-2017 years, I have developed a number of ideas • Secretary, 2019-2020 Civil and Equal Rights Committee, Member, 2016-present for programs and initiatives that I’d like • Assistant Secretary, 2016-2018 Nominating Committee, Member, 2016-present to implement as Chancellor. For instance, • Parliamentarian, 2015 Investment committee, Member, 2020-present I recognize that we lack significant • Elected Member, 2012-2014 Large firm committee, Board Liaison, 2020-present Young Lawyers Division Minority Bar Committee, Member, 2019-present participation from the in-house counsel • Executive Committee, 2007-2011 Quality of Life Committee, Member, 2018-present community. These lawyers play an important • Vice Chair, 2009 Member Events and Engagement Task Force, Member, 2019-2020 role within the City and many of our • Secretary, 2008 Planning Committee, Member, 2017-2020 large firm and corporate attorneys could • Hamilton Benefit Auction Committee, 2011 benefit from closer relationships with this • Hamilton Benefit Planning Committee, 2009, 2010 LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE population of lawyers. Therefore, I’d like • Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel Liaison, 2010 • Law School Outreach Coordinator, 2007- 2009 IN OTHER PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: to partner with the Greater Philadelphia • Bar Enhancement Committee Chair, 2008 Association of Corporate Counsel to host • Social Committee Chair, 2009 Brandeis Law Society: a Chancellor’s Panel Series with In-House Committee Leadership and Service • Chancellor, 2018-2019 Counsel on topics that are important to in- • Mentorship and Professional Development Committee, Co-Chair, 2021 • Vice Chancellor, 2016-2017 house lawyers. By providing programming • Bench-Bar, Co-Chair, 2019, planning committee 2011-2012, • Special Events Co-Chair, 2013-2016 • Fellowship Supervisor, 2012-2016 specifically geared to the in-house sponsorships, 2015, 2021 • Bar Leadership Committee Co-Chair, 2016-present, community and the large firm lawyers who • Women in the Profession Committee, Co-Chair, 2016-2017, Member, 2008-present • Executive Committee, 2011-present, they hire, we can foster a closer relationship • Committee on Insurance Practice, Secretary, 2013-2014 • Member, 2003-present and increase membership in both of these • Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, Co-chair, 2012, 2014 Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel: key constituencies. Similarly, I’d like to host Other Association Participation (Selected) • Programs Committee Co-Chair, 2016-present a Secondment Fair, similar to a Career Fair, • Budget/Finance Committee, Member, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2021 • Judicial Relations Co-Chair, 2017-2020 to aid the process of attracting talented and • Elections Committee, Member, 2013, 2019 • Executive Committee 2010-present diverse lawyers into these programs. • Chancellor’s Retreat Planning Committee, Member, 2012, 2014 Barristers Association of Philadelphia, Member, 2020-present • State Civil Litigation Section, Member, 2008-present Community Legal Services, Leadership Council, 2019-present I also recognize that the heart of our • State Civil Litigation Section Arbitration Committee, Member, Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, Advisory Board, 2017-present Association is its sections and committees. 2008-present Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program, Firm Liaison, They plan robust programs and they are truly • State Civil Litigation Section Rules and Procedures Committee, 2009-present the lifeline for most of our members. Our Member, 2008-present Temple Law Alumni Association: community as an Association is constituted • Executive Committee, 2016-present from these mini-communities that represent PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION: • Women’s Leadership Initiative, Member, 2018-present our committees and sections. Although Zone 1 (Philadelphia) Governor, 2020-present • Association Member, 2003-present they do a tremendous job planning subject- House of Delegates, Member, 2013-present American Bar Association: Women in the Profession Commission: • YLD Delegate, 2008 Fall Conference, 2009 Annual Meeting, 2010 matter and interest-related programs and Midyear Meeting, 2011 Annual Meeting events, they could benefit from enhanced • Co-Vice Chair, 2019-2021 • Treasurer, 2018-2019, • YLD Member, 2003-2016 communication strategies. As Chancellor, I • Annual Conference Co-Chair, 2013-2014, would encourage our section and committee • Awards Committee Co-Chair, 2014-2017 OTHER COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: leadership to develop a more robust form of • Fall Retreat Co-chair, 2018-2019, • Commission Member, 2008-present University of Maryland Alumni Association, Philadelphia Area Network Civil Litigation Section: • President, 2003- present • Chair, 2019-2020 • Member, 2000-present • Chair-Elect, 2018-2019 University of Maryland Terrapin Club, Philadelphia Area Liaison, • Vice-Chair, 2017-2018 2006-present • Secretary, 2016-2017 Storybook Musical Theatre, Secretary 2008, 2009, Counsel, • Treasurer, 2015-2016 2008-present. 2 Philadelphia Bar Reporter June 2021 PhiladelphiaBar.org EVENTS – TAKE ACTION PHILLY Take Action Philly Takes on Gerrymandering n By Daniel Parsons through which to draw the boundaries of districts, often of the commission.” for the benefit of their own parties. Although the Commission is meant to be bipartisan, On May 11, Take Action Philly (TAP) — created Ben Geffen of the Public Interest Law Center in issues arise given the deeply purple makeup of our in 2017 through the joint effort of the Philadelphia Philadelphia expanded upon the process through which Commonwealth. In this past legislative cycle, consensus Bar Association, the City of Philadelphia, the ACLU, Pennsylvania draws its state legislative districts and its was not reached on who was to serve as chair, resulting and many other legal nonprofits — hosted a panel on in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court appointing the chair. “Gerrymandering: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” Also covered in the forum was the practice of prison exploring the ways in which partisan gerrymandering “[A]s a result of prison gerrymandering, gerrymandering. Rory Kramer, professor of sociology conflicts with the will of the voters. and criminology