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.

In addition to the hard copy edition that is sent to members through the mail, the Feb. 6 edition of the Lawyers Journal — the ACBA’s flagship publication featuring substantive legal articles and stories of interest to the legal community — is available digitally on the ACBA website and at the button below.

Equip yourself Tuesday, February 24 at the U.S. Steel Tower to volunteer through Neighborhood Legal Services and the Pittsburgh Pro Bono Partnership and serve as a Landlord/Tenant (LT) Arbitrator and Mediator in the Arbitration Section of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. This 3 substantive credits CLE, hosted by Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, is designed as an introductory course accessible to participants who have not had experience in LT law.

Interested in getting involved in ACBA leadership? The ACBA Nominating Committee is seeking candidates to run for President-Elect and Treasurer, as well as members interested in running for spots on the Board of Governors and the Judiciary Committee. Terms begin July 1, 2026 and the deadline to submit a candidate application is Friday, Feb. 27. For more information on the process, requirements and more, click below.

All members are invited to the latest in the ACBA’s Pathways to Leadership series – “Lawyers on Board” – on Tuesday, Feb. 10 from 5-7 p.m. in the Koppers Building Conference Center. This program is intended to introduce attorneys to the benefits, both professional and personal, of serving on boards of directors. The program will feature a panel discussion on why board service is important/relevant, how to “sell” board service to your supervisor/firm leadership, the practical and ethical considerations for lawyers on boards.

Panelists will include a diverse group of lawyers who will share what motivated them to join boards, what challenges they have encountered in their board service experience and the benefits they have enjoyed: Malika Fields, Asta Kill, Krysia Kubiak, Tony Thompson and Melissa Evans will moderate.