The Causeway
The monthly newsletter for the Franklin County Bar Association
"The law is a causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a citizen may walk safely" Robert Bolt, playwright
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FCBA Annual Member Meeting materials - December 3rd |
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2021 Admission Ceremony & Annual Meeting
Friday, December 3rd
Schedule of Events
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8:30 a.m., Breakfast Reception hosted by Young Lawyers Division, 1st floor of the Judicial Center, Jury Assembly Room
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9:00 a.m., Admission Ceremony, New Courtroom One, 2nd Floor, Judicial Center
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11:30 a.m., Luncheon 1st floor of the Judicial Center, Jury Assembly Room
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12 p.m., Annual Meeting in-person, 1st floor of the Judicial Center, Jury Assembly Room -OR- Annual Meeting via Zoom
Admissions Ceremony:
Welcome our newest members in Courtroom One.
Annual Member Meeting:
Materials for the meeting are linked below. You may join us in-person for lunch and the meeting, or you may attend the meeting via Zoom. Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m. and the meeting will start at noon.
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Zoom Information for the Annual Meeting |
Topic: FCBA Annual Meeting
Time: Dec 3, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Courthouse Planter Project - Holiday Decorating on December 3rd |
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The FCBA Women's Club will be decorating the Courthouse Planters for the holidays. Please join us Friday, December 3rd after the Annual Meeting to add fresh ever greens, decorations and lights to the planters.
Barb and Marty will have everything there, we just need people to help. Please bring your garden gloves. Please RSVP to Amelia at director@franklinbar.org.
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FCBA YLD Holiday Party - RSVP by Friday, December 3rd |
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The FCBA Holiday Party is December 16, 2021 at Roy-Pitz. Please RSVP by Friday, December 3rd by emailing Amelia at director@franklinbar.org
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Franklin County legal Services Survey |
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Franklin County Legal Services is conducting a survey to help us best meet needs in our community. Please click on the following link to take the very short survey with just 3 questions: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CHBS9DS Please respond by December 3, 2021. Thank you so much for your assistance!
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CLE Distance Learning Updates for 2022 & 2023 |
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The attached document outlines the updates for distance learning through the 2023 compliance period. The PACLE website has been updated. https://www.pacle.org/ Please click on the link below to read the guidelines provided by the PACLE Board.
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Criminal Law Update 2021
December 7th 9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Elder Law Update 2021
December 8th 9 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
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Essential Ethics 2021
December 17th 9 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
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Law Library of Congress Upcoming Webinars in December |
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Orientation to Legal Research: Tracing Federal Regulations.
Thursday, December 2, 11:00 a.m. Join senior legal reference librarian Elizabeth Osborne for an Orientation to Legal Research Webinar this time focusing on Tracing Federal Regulations. The entry in the series provides participants with information about the notice-and-comment rulemaking process, including the publication and citation of federal regulations as well as exploring how to trace a federal regulation.
Human Rights Day
Thursday, December 9, 3:30 p.m. Each year, the Law Library of Congress celebrates Human Rights Day to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly with an event designed to promote understanding and recognition of human rights around the globe. This year’s event focuses on the intersection of health and human rights, with a panel that will bring together leading health and legal scholars and practitioners, who will discuss the interactions between health and human rights, and how human rights can help to strengthen public health systems across the globe and improve the response to health challenges.
The panel will be moderated by Peter Roudik, the assistant law librarian for legal research at the Law Library of Congress and the director of the Law Library's Global Legal Research Directorate.
The panelists are as follows:
Lucy Mize spent 24 years in the field in Indonesia and West Africa before she joined the USAID Asia Bureau as the health team lead. In that role, she leads eight technical experts providing health programming support to over 20 countries across the region.
Helena Nygren-Krug. Professor Nygren-Krug is a senior advisor on human rights and the law in the executive office of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Judit Sándor. Dr. Sándor is the Central European University (CEU) professor of law and bioethics. She served as the chief of the Bioethics Section at the UNESCO and is the founding director of the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) at CEU.
Alicia Ely Yamin. Dr. Yamin is currently a lecturer on law and the senior fellow on Global Health and Rights at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; and adjunct senior lecturer on Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Law Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20540-3000
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WIN - Midnight at the Masquerade fundraising event |
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Join us Saturday, January 15th 2022 for a lively and engaging murder mystery dinner theater event to benefit Women In Need of Chambersburg.
Theme: Midnight at the Masquerade. Attendees encouraged to dress costume for the event/ theme but NOT mandatory.
Ticket price is $60 per person
This is limited to ages 18 and older
Doors open 4:00 pm With Social Hour
Dinner 5:30 pm
Show 7:30 pm
Tables will seat 8. Whole table reservations must be paid in full at time of reservation. VIP seating available with sponsorship. Admission will include buffet dinner and delicious desserts, as well as a cash bar for guests over the age of 21.
When you arrive you are settled in for the event the actors will be freely mingling with the guests. At this time the actors will explain the rules of the murder mystery to you. The party guest will cooperate to investigate the murder to uncover key clues as it guess you will have a chance to purchase clues. The Schell the murder mystery performance is about two hours long and will take place after the meal.
Hosted by Knights of Columbus Chambersburg
336 East Garfield Street, Chambersburg PA 17201
The caterers for this event are Chameleon 1648 and The Art of Pie. Hann’s On Portrait will be providing photo opportunities.
Proceeds benefit Women In Need of Chambersburg.
Tickets will be available for purchase December 6th
Tickets may be purchased at Knights of Columbus - Chambersburg, CrossCountry Mortgage - Chambersburg or Doddie @717-404-4222
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Press Releases, Memos and Important Notices |
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The Disciplinary Board
of the Supreme Court of PA
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Read the latest news and statistics from the Supreme Court of PA.
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Guardianship Tracking System Online Workshops offered by AOPC - October, November & December |
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Please see below for a brochure regarding the next round of GTS Guardian Workshops for court-appointed guardians. This series offers sessions in January, February and March.
Guardians who participated in any of the prior workshop/webinar sessions will not need to attend since the material being presented is essentially the same. This series is again being offered exclusively as ‘Online Workshops’. The online webinars have been very successful and convenient for the guardians since various dates and times are being offered to accommodate their schedules, and also travel is not required.
The guardians will need to register online so that the trainers can appropriately plan and staff the sessions based on the number expected to participate.
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The PA Bar Foundation invites you to join a special Virtual Holiday Celebration to recognize President Judge Emerita Mary Hannah Leavitt on December 8, at 6 p.m. Please see more details in the flyer. We look forward to your virtual presence for this event.
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Do you have a updated FCBA member list? |
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The complete member list is updated quarterly and available to you and your staff two ways.
You may download and print a PDF from the members' section of our website (log in required). Or you may email Amelia at director@franklinbar.org to receive a PDF or excel document anytime.
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Coffee Corner
"Coffee Corner" is a periodic column in The Causeway by Bar members Annie Gómez Shockey, Brandon Copeland, and Victoria Beard.
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We’re finally here. The holidays are upon us. If nothing else the holidays give us an excuse to find a moment, however brief, to forget about the pandemic, inflation, politics, climate change, and whatever else has been thrown at us. It’s the time of year that we get to welcome new faces to our Bar Association and gather with familiar faces at our annual meeting.
In the spirit of taking a break from the stressors around us and using that moment to have a quick laugh, I thought all of you might enjoy the Christmas card I came across earlier today online.
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Unfortunately, I can’t give credit to the attorney who sent this card because none was noted in the article. If I could, I would congratulate him or her for sending one of the funniest Christmas cards I’ve read in a long time. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year to all of you!
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Franklin County Bar Association
100 Lincoln Way East, Suite E, Chambersburg, PA 17201
717-267-2032
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