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JUNE 2015 Presidents’ Columns Inside By Amanda Green Alexander By Mike Malouf, Jr. CABA Professionalism Award Past President President 4 William Wright, 2015 Recipient A View of our YEAR!! I am honored to This year’s theme serve as the President ABA President-Elect, was Leading and Inspir- of the Capital Area Paulette Brown Featured at Evening Honoring the Judiciary ing Positive Change Bar Association for 5 in Our Community the 2015-2016 year. and Our Profession. We have a great Board Evening Honoring the Judiciary Gandhi once wrote, “Be in place, and we are 6 View photos from this CABA event the change you want to eagerly seeking ways to see in the world.” This improve our profession Deciding King v. Burwell; year, CABA and its members inspired great in the Jackson, Madison, and Rankin area. Herein of the Proverbial Rose By Any Other Name things in our community and our profession. I want to thank Amanda Green Alexander 10 As I reflect on the importance of CABA, I am for her outstanding service as President of our reminded often that our organization is the association. During her tenure, CABA offered Roy Campbell to Serve As largest local bar association in the state and as outstanding services to our members and 16 President of the Mississippi Bar a profession and an association, we have both to the community, including the Chamber a tremendous influence and an enormous Chats from the Bench & Bar committee, more responsibility to lead. This year we reactivated opportunities for CLEs, a solo and small firm and re-engaged our members to work together breakfast seminar, women’s initiative events, Upcoming Events towards a common goal. We partnered with golf and tennis tournaments, and the launch August 18 great bar associations that are doing great work, of the new Food from the Bar campaign. One-Hour CLE • 11:30 am, Capital Club such as the Magnolia Bar Association, the MS There is no doubt Amanda exceeded her goals October 20 Association for Justice and the MS Women of Leading and Inspiring Positive Change in Membership Meeting • Noon, Capital Club Lawyers Association. We exceeded our mem- Our Community and Our Profession. bership projections this year. We welcomed During this next year, CABA will continue December 3 new faces and treasured our regulars. We truly to emphasize civility, cooperation and high Christmas Social • 5:30 pm, Old Capitol Inn moved from the Bench, The Bar & Beyond. standards of professionalism towards clients The views expressed in the articles published are Continued on Next Page … solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of CABA, its officers, directors, or staff. CABA Luncheon & CLE Meeting August 18, 2015 for members & law clerks 11:30 am at the Capital Club $18 for guests Presidents’ Columns continued from page 1 Amanda Green Alexander Mike Malouf, Jr. Please take a moment to review Our Year board meetings, etc. and to Amari Elizabeth, an and fellow attorneys. This has always been at a Glance that outlines some of our great honorary member of CABA, who has attended a mission statement of CABA, and we look projects. To say we’ve been busy this year… more golf tournaments, newsletter meetings forward to strengthening the relationship well is a major understatement. I’m personally and listened to far too many conference calls among our members with social events, glad to have had a great board of directors about CABA events than an eight year old community projects and membership meetings. who said sure we will jump in and sign off should have to bear!! We also look forward to providing more on MOST of the ideas. Thank you for the When asked what it is required of us…it community service projects. In addition to our opportunity to serve this great organization. is to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly! annual projects, we will have several additional I anticipate that the upcoming year will be as My kindest regard and thank you for the opportunities for you to get involved. These exciting and I’m very excited to hand off the awesome privilege of serving as your President! community service projects are invaluable to baton to Mike Malouf, Jr. who will continue our community and to our association, so get to push CABA forward!! High Hopes and Great Expectations, involved! We look forward to a great year and Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank Amanda Green Alexander, we welcome your participation. members of my firm who have experienced Past President 2015-16 me running down the hall dashing off to CLE, Thank you, Mike Malouf, Jr. OUR YEAR AT A GLANCE By Amanda Green Alexander chats” which allowed us to visit with the federal Our Legislative Update for the 2015 court and engage in one on one interactions Session was all but calm as we heard from CABA has truly with the workings of the court. panelists Representative David Baria, Andy moved from the Bench, Additionally, we teamed up with the Fifth Taggert, Esq., and Jere Nash. Our panel was The Bar & Beyond Circuit Bar Association to co-sponsor a dinner moderated by Moderator Jennifer Riley Collins, chat with members of the Fifth Circuit and General Counsel/Executive Director of the The Bench other federal judiciary. ACLU of Mississippi. As customary, we sought to honor our We tackled intergenerational issues with How many times judges with our annual Evening Honoring the a program titled “Tackling Intergenerational have you heard the Judiciary. It is our culminating event of the Management (or What to Do with Someone complaint, “We have year to honor our judiciary and members of in Your Office That Has Never Seen Animal no idea what the judge wants.” And how many the Bar who have maintained a commitment House)” by Will Manuel. While the room times have you heard a judge say “You have to the bar, the bench and beyond. There are was filled with baby boomers, Gen Xers and no idea what I need, or what you are doing, more highlights of this great event in this millennials, we all seemed to take away many do you?” Well, hopefully not. issue of our newsletter. of the same thoughts — times are changing But this year, our Bench & Bar Relations and we had better look up from our desks to Committee, led by Judge Linda Anderson and The Bar explore more about each other. Tianna Raby, kicked off a program to help us Our solo and small firm practitioners voiced develop practical tips from the bench to aid CABA offered CLE’s at every meeting their concerns that they were overwhelmed in in our practices. thanks to Jennie Eichelberger and Marlena the practice and wanted resources, so this year, The federal bench invited CABA members Pickering who help pull off the laundry list of we embarked on the first installment of a new to participate in a series of quarterly “chamber CLE programs that mattered to me: series entitled “Getting Help to Move Beyond Continued on next page... CABA NEWSLETTER 2 Administration to Enjoy the Practice.” Led by have been awesome! We also held a Women’s 2014 under the leadership of tennis guru Gerald Mumford and Cody Gibson, the CABA Initiative Social Collaboration with MWLA Venecca Green Mason and her Committee. Solo/Small Firm Committee held a one hour and the MAJ Women’s Caucus in the “Defense Competitors enjoyed three days of fellowship CLE with a great breakfast and vendors to of Soles” Networking Event. and fun on the tennis courts, and the proceeds assist in your practice including accountants, benefitted MVLP. technology, insurance, banks and more. • MWLA Holiday Mix and Mingle Event; CABA members gave back to the Finally we wrapped up the year with a A social promoting female leadership in community through the CABA “Food from dynamic three hour CLE entitled “Shaking the legal profession and a book drive for the Bar” Campaign, a new CABA initiative Things UP: A View from the Bench, the Bar Mississippi Children’s Home Services. to provide food donations and/or fundraising and Beyond.” Of course that title could have • Establishment of a separate listing of campaign for MS Food Network to assist described either a good CLE or a very interesting female CABA members.; This list will be needy families in our communities. Led martini, but it was fantastic CLE. The panelists used to publicize future female member- by Hewitt Jones and Michael Bentley, this challenged us to not only consider our biases only events and solicit additional support initiative allows summer feeding program but to determine that they were both positive for our Women’s Initiatives Committee. where children have an opportunity to have and negative biases that influence our decision at least one meal each day while they are out making in our profession and our community. The Diversity Committee, led by LaVerne from school. Sadly enough this may be their Panelists included members of the federal Edney and Tammy Brown, helped to co-sponsor only meal, and we appreciate your support to and state judiciary, practitioners, and even a much needed CLE on the Role of the Grand help in this effort. Judge Bernice Donald of the Sixth Circuit Jury in the wake of Ferguson. We’ve had great support by our Court of Appeals, all of whom encouraged CABA continued its commitment to Communications Committee Dellwyn Smith us to go beyond our profession and consider minority scholarships at MC Law School and and Tiffany Grove along with rockstars like our impact as servant leaders.