ABA Section of Business Law
Business Law Today
January/February 1999
Section sound bites
Spring Meeting
The San Francisco Spring Meeting is just around the corner and the Section has a full schedule of events planned. Watch your mail for details on registration, more than 45 CLE programs, more than 200 committee and subcommittee meetings and a variety of social activities. Visit the Section’s Web site to register online for the Spring Meeting and to check out the latest event highlights, program and committee meeting schedules and general meeting information. Or, call the Section’s fax on demand at 312/988-5810 for info.
Important deadlines: March 15: hotel reservation; March 26: meeting registration. Check out pages 60-61 in this issue of BLT for additional information.
Last chance to nominate
Remember, nominations for the Seventh Annual Glass Cutter Award, the Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest Award and the National Public Service Award are due by Feb. 12.
For complete information on these awards, check out the Section’s Web site at www.abanet.org/buslaw, call Sue Daly at 312/988-6244 or e-mail suedaly@staff.abanet.org.
New committee directory
The 1998-1999 Committee Directory will be available in mid to late January from the ABA Service Center. All Section members who belong to a committee will automatically receive a free copy. It provides a complete listing of the members of all Section committees and subcommittees.
For those of you who do not belong to a Section committee, call the ABA Service Center at 1-800-285-2221 and order your copy today!
Young lawyer fellow program
The Section has created a fellowship program designed to increase the participation of young lawyers in Section activities.
Five members of the Young Lawyers Division were recently named as the first class of Business Law Fellows. The program offers young lawyers the opportunity to become involved in the substantive work of committees, to develop as future leaders for the Section, to experience the benefits of being an active Section member and to increase participation by other young lawyers.
So, congratulations to…
Michelle S. Druce, Portland, Ore.; Brett D. Fallon, Wilmington, Del.; Kathleen J. Hopkins, Seattle; Heidi L. McNeil, Phoenix; and William G. Scoggin, Cary, N.C.
Joint task force created
The Section has launched a new Task Force on Privacy, a joint effort of the Banking, Consumer Financial Services and Cyberspace Law committees. The new chairs are in the process of developing the scope and mission as well as projects for the task force. Check out the Section’s Web site at www.abanet.org/buslaw or call the Section office at 312/988-5588 for details or to enroll.
ABA Board of Governors approves a center in China
The ABA Board of Governors recently approved the establishment of a Center for the Study of Business Law in Beijing, China. An agreement between the Section, Temple University Law School and the China University of Political Science resulted in the creation of the center that will offer continuing legal education programs on topics of current interest in different areas of business law to practicing Chinese lawyers and government officials as well as business and other persons in Beijing and other Chinese cities.
The center will provide Chinese lawyers, government officials and others with an understanding of the basic principles of U.S. and international legal concepts that govern business relationships and economic regulation.
