The annual ACBA Golf and Bocce Tournament – one of the Pittsburgh Legal Community’s biggest events of the summer – is scheduled for Monday, July 28 at Westmoreland Country Club. The event, which raises money for the Allegheny County Bar Foundation and Neighborhood Legal Services, will feature an 18-hole championship golf tournament, as well as a bocce competition suitable for players at all skill levels.

Registration for all attendees includes food, beverages, skill contests and access to a silent auction and other exciting prizes. It is a great afternoon of networking and fun while raising money for two great organizations.

Summer is almost here, and the ACBA Softball League will soon begin another season. The regular season begins in late May and runs through August, with playoffs to follow. The league is open to all attorneys, law students, and full-time employees of law firms. Participants can enter a full team or join as an individual. There are no gender restrictions. Those interested in joining the league or learning more about it, contact commissioner Bradley Whitecap at bwhitecap@reedsmith.com.

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.

The May 16 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.

If your firm is looking to hire an attorney of any experience level, or a paralegal or legal secretary, be sure to consider posting the position on the ACBA Job Board. The Pittsburgh Legal Community’s top resource for legal job postings, the ACBA Job Board gets an average of 5,000 views every month from job seekers in the Pittsburgh region. For more information, contact Jennifer Pulice, the ACBA’s Director of Legal Employment Services, at jpulice@acba.org.

ACBA members should be aware that there is a phishing email scam targeting ACBA members going around. The emails come from familiar ACBA member/staff names, but the domain is “@members-acba.org” rather than “@acba.org” which is the actual ACBA domain.

The messages request members to update their member information. Disregard these emails as they are not legitimate. For any questions, reach out to an ACBA staff member directly.

All members are invited to join the ACBA Appellate Practice Committee for an informal, non-CLE discussion with Superior Court Judges Jill Beck and Timika Lane and Commonwealth Court Judge Matthew S. Wolf on Wednesday, May 28 at noon on Zoom.

Attendees will learn about the jurists' paths to the bench and how their experiences have shaped their roles as judges on intermediate appellate courts. This is the chance to interact with the judges in an informal setting decidedly less intimidating than oral argument.

ACBA President Regina Wilson recaps the May 20 Board of Governors meeting. She covers the approval of the 2025-26 ACBA budgets, the association’s sponsorship of the upcoming National Conference of Bar Presidents, the upcoming Bench-Bar Conference and more.

ACBA members can attend the upcoming ABA CLE, “Learning From the Past to Protect the Future: Underscoring the Importance of the Rule of Law in the USA” on Tuesday, May 27 at 9:30 a.m. The program is part of a new ABA CLE Series – “The Rule of Law in America” – a new CLE series that explores the integrity of our legal system and the vital role of an independent judiciary and features expert discussions on safeguarding the rule of law, preserving public trust, and ensuring justice remains free from political influence. View programs in the series. Use the promo code ROLIA5FREE for free access. Note: The ABA CLE offer is free only to ACBA members who are also current members of the ABA. Click here for more.

ACBA Members are encouraged to participate in the annual elections, which opened on Monday and close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 4.

Eligible members can cast ballots to elect the association’s next President-Elect, Secretary, division leaders, and new members of both the Board of Governors and the Judiciary Committee. This year, the ACBA elections will run concurrently with the retention referendum that occurs every two years; ACBA members are asked to vote as to whether or not judges should be retained in their positions. Members in the active and honorary membership classes as of April 1, 2025, are eligible to vote.

As in recent years, voting will be conducted exclusively online. On May 19, eligible members should have received an email containing instructions and unique login credentials. Members who do not receive the voting email should reach out to Jennifer Pulice at jpulice@acba.org.