Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers is an organization exclusively dedicated to helping lawyers, judges, law students and their family members who are at risk as a result of drug use, gambling, depression and other serious mental illnesses. LCL help is available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Services include counseling, rehabilitation services and more. For more info, click the link below.

If you’re considering a job change this year, the Pittsburgh Legal Community’s top resource for legal job postings is the ACBA Job Board. Firms, corporate legal departments and legal services departments post positions frequently, including those directly targeting the Pittsburgh Legal Community. For more information, contact Jennifer Pulice, the ACBA’s Director of Legal Employment Services, at jpulice@acba.org.

The Pittsburgh Legal Journal – the official legal journal of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas containing trial lists, legal notices, sheriff sales and more – is published five days per week and is available only to subscribers. It is delivered via email as an easy-to-print, 8.5x11-inch pdf. For an informational video on the PLJ, click here.

ACBA members and their guests are invited to join the Arts and the Law Committee for a night at the Opera on Tuesday, March 25 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Benedum Center. Thanks to the sponsorship of the Pittsburgh Opera and Fort Pitt Capital, tickets are just $25 (regular price $93) and that includes food and beverages in a private networking space prior to the show.

The performance is “Madama Butterfly” a groundbreaking new production created by an all-Japanese and Japanese American creative team, that transports the audience to a fantastical realm where reality and dreams intersect. Click here for more on the show. (If you can’t make it to ACBA Night, check out LGBTQ+/Ally Night on Saturday, March 22; click here for more.)

It’s important for lawyers to spend as much time as possible practicing law. But those management and administrative tasks that come with running a practice can drain a lot of time. The ACBA’s Practice Management Center can help. Available at the button below, the Practice Management Center contains articles, tips and other resources to help you manage your practice efficiently.

The March 7 edition of Pittsburgh Legal Journal Opinions is available online. The Pittsburgh Legal Journal publishes timely, precedent-setting, full-text opinions from various divisions of the Court of Common Pleas. Opinions that appeared in past editions are available in a searchable database here; members must be logged in to the ACBA website to access this database.

The ACBA is re-launching its participation in the American Bar Association’s “Books for Bars” program. Through this partnership, ACBA members can enjoy an exclusive 15 percent discount on book purchases through the ABA’s online store. At checkout, enter the promo code ACBARI to receive 15 percent off the purchase.

Every dollar spent benefits the ACBA, as through this program, the ACBA receives a royalty payment from the ABA, helping to support member services and keep dues low.

The ACBA launched a new membership software platform, “MemberCentral” last year, which has enhanced the ACBA experience for members.

As the ACBA’s technology progresses, so do email “spam filters.” At times, emails from the ACBA never get to certain members, because they are getting caught in these spam filters. When this happens, members miss out on information regarding upcoming CLEs, networking events, member benefits and more.

The ACBA is asking members to work with their firms’ IT departments to help ensure attorneys are receiving these important emails. The simplest way is for your IT department to add the following domains “as trusted domains.”

• @acba.org
• @communications.acba.org
• @elist.acba.org
• @finance.acba.org

Additionally, IT teams should add the following MemberCentral servers:

• cliff.membercentral.org – 207.200.8.49
• rita.membercentral.org – 207.200.8.79
• albert.membercentral.org – 207.200.8.111
• kevin.membercentral.org – 207.200.8.143
• joe.membercentral.org – 207.200.8.33
• mary.membercentral.org – 207.200.8.175
• shane.membercentral.org – 207.200.8.207
• olive.membercentral.org – 207.200.8.32

In addition to the hard copy edition that is sent to members through the mail, the March 7 edition of the Lawyers Journal — the ACBA’s flagship publication featuring substantive legal articles and stories of interest to the legal community — is available digitally on the ACBA website and at the button below.

ACBA President Regina Wilson recaps the March 4 ACBA Board of Governors meeting in the below video. She discusses Judiciary Committee candidate ratings, a Family Law Section request to submit comments to the Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee and more.