As many people from Allegheny County continue to battle hunger, the ACBF Attorneys Against Hunger program continues to help. Volunteer attorneys are needed to help at the Allies for Health and Wellbeing Food Pantry in East Liberty on Wednesday, Feb. 18 from 9 a.m. to noon. For more info or to register, email Mya Thomasmeyer at the button below.

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.

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 are invited to a free non-CLE webinar – “Designing a Profitable Estate Planning Practice” – on Monday, Feb. 23 at noon on Zoom. Estate planning can be both highly impactful and highly profitable, but only when it is intentionally designed. Tammy Philabaum of T2 Management Solutions will provide a practical, business-focused framework for building and scaling a profitable estate planning practice without burnout or chaos.

ACBA members are invited to attend any of an upcoming series of open houses, presented by the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Civil Division, to learn more about the Division’s new case management system. The sessions will be held at 11 a.m. on the following dates at the City-County Building:

• Wednesday, Feb. 11
• Wednesday, Feb. 18
• Wednesday, Feb. 25

The sessions will start with a short presentation on the case management rules and the system followed by a 20-minute formal question and answer session. Following these sessions, attendees are free to come and go, pick up copies of the rules and ask questions of case management staff. To register or for more, click the button below.

The Feb. 6 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.

When is the last time you got a quote on your LPL insurance? The discount members can get on getting LPL through the ACBA Insurance Program – powered by USI – is often greater than the cost of ACBA membership. For more, visit www.ACBA.org/Insurance.

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 Pennsylvania Statewide High School Mock Trial Competition – presented by the ACBA and the Pa. Bar Association – is underway. ACBA members are asked to support these high school students by volunteering to be a scoring juror or a presiding judge for the competition. There are 36 local high school teams participating, and at least 24 volunteers are needed on each night of the competition. Volunteers do not need to be a litigation attorney to support this program, and prior experience as a scoring juror is not needed. 

Volunteers should arrive at the City-County Building by 4:45 p.m. and should be prepared to judge two back-to-back trials, completed by approximately 9 p.m. The next available night of the first round of the competition is Thursday, Feb. 12

Additional dates will be scheduled for playoffs, semifinals and finals. Volunteers can sign-up at this link. For additional information, contact Julie Brennan at jbrennan@pionlaw.com. For more on upcoming mock trials, click below.

Jamila Wideman, the general manager of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, is a Pittsburgh native, lawyer, activist and former professional basketball player. She’ll join the ACBA Women in the Law Division for lunch on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 11:30 a.m. at the Omni William Penn Hotel and all ACBA members and their guests are invited. Wideman discuss her professional journey, which began in professional sports, led to a career as an attorney, and ultimately resulted in her recent roles with the NBA and now the WNBA. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear directly from a prominent women’s sports executive with deep, local ties.