Hosting an event of interest to the Pittsburgh Legal Community? Want to celebrate a new hire or promotion at your firm? Have a legal support service that Pittsburgh attorneys would find valuable? You can promote those opportunities – right here in this very spot – by sponsoring an edition of the Sidebar e-newsletter. Sidebar Sponsorships are currently available at half-price; your content can run in any available edition in the next 12 months, but you have to lock in your agreement by Thursday, April 30 to get the deal. Limited spots are available, so act now. For more, contact Jennifer Pulice at jpulice@acba.org or click below.

Need credits by the end of the month? The ACBA is offering a Live Video Replay CLE sale event on Tuesday, April 28 in the Koppers Building. Save $10 per credit on any 12 previously recorded CLE programs – six substantive and six ethics – as the ACBA shows videos of Previously Recorded CLEs all day. Attend one program or multiple; credits count as live credits, not distance learning. Available programs are below; click here for more.

Substantive Programs

• 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. – Protecting Personal Information in the Digital Age
• 10:05 - 11:05 a.m. – Frightening Legal Issues
• 11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. – Serving Clients at Community Legal Clinics
• 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. – Preparing for Trial as Solo or Small Firm
• 1:20 - 2:20 p.m. – Digital Forensics for Lawyers – What Lies Beneath?
• 2:25 - 3:25 p.m. – Parenting Children with Invisible Disabilities – Educational Accommodations

Ethics Programs

• 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. – Ethics and the Internet
• 10:05 - 11:05 a.m. – Ethical Dilemmas and Impaired Colleagues
• 11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. – My Client Wants Me to Do WHAT!!??
• 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. – Bias, Bots and the Bar – Ethical AI for Attorneys
• 1:20 - 2:20 p.m. – Managing Vicarious Trauma in the Legal Profession
• 2:25 - 3:25 p.m. – Recognizing Ethical Issues and the Limits of Confidentiality

Have you observed or experienced a form of gender bias as an attorney or law student intern? If so, contact the WLD Gender Bias Committee. Duty officers will keep your report confidential and review next step options available. Click the button below for more information.

The Allegheny County Bar Foundation is now accepting applications for loans and scholarships for the 2026-2027 academic year. Eligible students can apply for scholarships through the following funds:

• Environment and Energy Law Section Scholarship Fund
• F.C. Grote Fund
• James I. Smith, III Notre Dame Law School Scholarship Fund
• Hon. Carol Los Mansmann Fund
• ACBA Young Lawyers Division Scholarship Fund
• Daniel B. Dixon Scholarship Fund
• Louis Little Attorneys’ Memorial Fund

To apply online and learn more about each scholarship, click the button below. For questions, please contact Stephanie Selya at 412-402-6674 or sselya@acba.org.

Proactive management of your claim history is crucial in today’s insurance market. Understand the data, protect your record, and know when not to file a claim. The below article covers more. For more on the ACBA Insurance program, visit www.ACBA.org/Insurance.

Wellness is crucial, especially for those battling the stresses and challenges that come with the legal profession. To recognize the importance of mental health and well-being in the legal profession, the ACBA has created “Wellness Circles” for members, a vision of ACBA President and cancer survivor Amy Coco.

Currently there are seven Wellness Circles, which are listed below. Members are welcome to suggest ideas for additional Wellness Circles. For more details, FAQs and other information, click the button below.

• Attorneys who Run
• Cancer Survivors
• Parenting Children with Disabilities
• Pickleball
• Sandwich Generation
• Support for Attorneys Battling Mental Health Issues/Addition
• Support for Attorneys with Loved Ones Battling Mental Health Issues/Addiction

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 ACBA Knowledge Center is the premier resource library for legal professionals. Explore this library of content and resources from the ACBA, as well as experts and providers across the legal industry. These resources include timely, actionable research from the ACBA as well as third-party resources that are designed to be helpful to your organization.

The ACBA is inviting members to a free paper-shredding event in the parking lot at Burns White in Pittsburgh's Strip District on Thursday, April 30 from 2-3:30 p.m. Members can bring up to two boxes of papers to be shredded - right in front of your eyes - by Steel City Shredding's mobile shredding truck. There's a limit of two boxes per person. Thanks to Steel City Shredding and Burns White for sponsoring the event.

All members are invited to join the Hispanic Attorneys Committee at the ACBA Cinco de Mayo Celebration on Tuesday, May 5 from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. at La Palapa Mexican restaurant on Pittsburgh’s South Side. The event will feature food, beverages and celebration of Hispanic culture.