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.

All members are invited to join the ACBA Arts and the Law Committee and the LGBTQ+ Rights Committee for a night at the Opera on Saturday, Nov. 15 beginning at 6 p.m. ACBA members and their guests can get a steep discount on tickets to a performance of  “Fellow Travelers.” ACBA members receive a discount by using the code “EQUALITY” at checkout. Registration includes various food, beverage and seating options.

Fall is here, and many legal professionals are looking to make a career move. If that’s you, 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 3,000 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.

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If you have not renewed your ACBA membership for the 2025-26 bar year, you still have time.

The bar year officially started on July 1, and the ACBA has granted a grace period for members to renew, which ended a couple weeks ago. However, the ACBA is extending that grace period to 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 31. Don’t wait, or you’ll miss out on all that ACBA membership has to offer, including access to Committees, Divisions, and Sections, discounts on CLE, networking opportunities, the opportunity to attend the Bench-Bar Conference and more.

For a snapshot of the benefits of becoming an ACBA member, click below. 

All members are invited to a non-CLE seminar on the Court of Common Pleas Civil Division’s new Case Management System on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. The Civil Division will now take an active role in managing cases by conducting case management conferences and issuing case management orders near the time of filing. The program will provide the background for these changes and introduce what can be expected.

The Oct. 17 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 is exploring the idea of forming a “Legacy Lawyers Committee” and will hold a townhall meeting on the topic on Tuesday, Oct. 28 from 12-1 p.m. on Zoom. The Legacy Lawyers Committee would be a committee for veteran, experienced lawyers who bring significant value to the ACBA, the profession and the community. The townhall meeting will cover the importance of preserving institutional knowledge; how experienced lawyers offer mentorship and guidance; professional engagement opportunities post-retirement; pro bono and community service opportunities; and more.

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