In addition to the hard copy edition that is sent to members through the mail, the Sept. 5 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 members can get a 15 percent discount on books purchased through the American Bar Association's online store, through the "Books for Bars" program. Simply shop online and then use the promo code "ACBARI" to receive the discount. Visit www.ACBA.org/BooksForBars for more.

In the below video, ACBA President Amy Coco recaps the Sept. 2 Board of Governors Meeting. She covers the board filling vacancies on the ACBA Judiciary Committee, donation to the ACBF Pro Bono Rocks event, an update on the ACBA Retention Election Campaign, tonight’s WLD welcome back celebration and more.

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The ACBA is running a Back-to-School CLE Sale through the entire month of September. View cle.acba.org and use promo code SCHOOL25 to save $10 on any of more than 115 of the ACBA’s Previously Recorded CLEs. These distance-learning courses are available for Pennsylvania and West Virginia credit.

ACBA Video offers comprehensive video services designed to meet the needs of attorneys throughout the Pittsburgh Legal Community. Services include: video conferencing, video depositions, legal-use videos, courtroom playback, video editing and production and more. ACBA Video is headed by Marty Barron who has more than 40 years of professional experience in television, award-winning cable and video productions.

ACBA members with law school debt are encouraged to explore the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program. The program is available to help attorneys at IOLTA-funded legal services organizations. The 2025 Loan Repayment Assistance Program application period will open on the WebGrants Portal on Monday, Sept. 1, and  the deadline to apply is Wednesday, Oct. 15.

If back-to-school season makes you interested in exploring opportunities, be sure to check out the ACBA Job Board at jobs.acba.org. The Pittsburgh Legal Community’s top resource for legal job postings, the ACBA Job Board gets more than 5,000 pageviews each month, the vast majority from Pittsburgh-area legal professionals looking for jobs. For more information, contact Jennifer Pulice, the ACBA’s Director of Legal Employment Services, at jpulice@acba.org.

The ACBA is exploring the idea of forming an In-House Counsel Committee and will hold an informational town hall meeting on the topic on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at noon on Zoom. All ACBA members interested in or with thoughts on the ACBA potentially forming an In-House Counsel Committee are invited to attend the meeting. To register or for the Zoom link, click below.

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.