If you are considering making a career this year, now is the time to start your search. Be sure to check out the ACBA Job Board at jobs.acba.org, the Pittsburgh Legal Community’s top resource for legal job postings that 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.

The ACBA Health and Wellness Committee is forming a walking team for the annual Pittsburgh Marathon – scheduled for Sunday May 3 – and all members are encouraged to participate. Participants will walk the 13.1-mile half marathon course. ACBA members get a 50 percent discount off of regular registration prices; members who choose not to walk can participate in other ways, such as cheering sections along the course.

To register, use the code ACBADSGPM26 at the below link. For more information, contact Mary Ann Fiorilli at mfiorilli@acba.org.

In today’s day and age, when a potential client calls, the expectation is they’ll get a live person or a return call almost instantly. If not, they’ll quickly move on to the next attorney. The ACBA partners at LawyerLine provide a third-party call center where highly trained receptionists field your calls and even perform intake; the goal is for clients/potential clients to feel like they’re talking to your receptionist, not a call center. ACBA members get a discount: enjoy LawyerLine’s gold platform for just $2.25 per minute, reduced from the regular price of $3 per minute.

The St. Thomas More Society of Pittsburgh is conducting its annual Franklyn E. Conflenti Lenten Speaker Series, and the speakers for this year’s sessions have been announced. The sessions will be held at noon on Tuesdays through March 24 at the offices of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. The sessions are free and are open to all members and guests; lunch is available for $10. For more information, the list of speakers and specific topics, or to register, click the button below or contact ACBA member Moira Cain-Mannix at cain-mannix@marcus-shapira.com or 412-338-3344.

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.

Far too many people in Allegheny County are struggling with hunger. The ACBF Attorneys Against Hunger program is aiming to help.

Volunteers attorneys are needed at Pittsburgh Community Food Bank – 1 N. Linden St. in Duquesne — on Saturday, March 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information or to register, email Mya Thomasmeyer at mthomasmeyer@acba.org. For more on the Attorneys Against Hunger Program, click here.

The March 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.

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 six 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
• Sandwich Generation
• Support for Attorneys Battling Mental Health Issues/Addition
• Support for Attorneys with Loved Ones Battling Mental Health Issues/Addiction

The deadline to purchase listings in the ACBA Member-to-Member Practice Area Guide (M2M) has been extended to tomorrow – Friday, March 6. The M2M is a printed and online resource that lists ACBA attorneys by their fields of practice; it s published on the ACBA’s website and emailed to all members as a PDF four times each year. In addition, the M2M Guide will be printed in an April edition of the Lawyers Journal in a special section sponsored by ACBA partner AmeriServ Wealth & Capital Management.

Any ACBA member who wishes to be included in the 2026–2027 M2M Guide — including those currently listed — must order or renew their listings. Listings are $25 each. To place your order, complete the form using the button below.

ACBA President Amy Coco recaps the March 3 Board of Governors Meeting in the below video. She covers the Board’s approval of the filing of tax forms, a YLD children’s gift drive requestion, and the Board’s opposition of Pa. House Bill 1291 related to the publishing of legal notices. Additionally, Coco noted that as of March 1, she’s operating as a solo practitioner.