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Section Rolls-Out New Membership Growth Initiative

I am pleased to join with Cheryl Jacobs and Vincent Aprile, the Co-Chairs of the Section Membership and Awards Committee, in announcing a new campaign, The Race to 10K, which seeks to bring 10,000 lawyers into the Criminal Justice Section by August 31, 2008. Attorney and law student membership has been growing at a fast pace during the last two and a half years, moving the Section toward record membership numbers in both categories.  As recently as May 2005, the Criminal Justice Section had 6,241 attorneys. The current attorney membership stands at 8,443 attorneys and we believe that by the end of this fiscal year we can bring that number to 10,000 lawyer members. 

This Section-wide endeavor will require the help of every council member, every committee chair and every member of the Criminal Justice Section to reach out to criminal defense lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and academics inside and outside the ABA and ask them to join our dynamic section. The Criminal Justice Section seeks to be the unified voice for criminal justice in America. Greater lawyer membership numbers for the ABA Criminal Justice Section needs will assist the Section to more effectively serve as the unified voice on criminal justice matters. 

How can members help?  Criminal Justice Section members can utilize and adapt letters found on our website to send to their colleagues and associates that are not members of the ABA Criminal Justice Section and ask them to join us. One letter is for individuals who are not ABA members  and one letter is for individuals who are ABA members, but not of the Criminal Justice Section. (A summary of member benefit and enrollment form can be included in your letter.) The letters should be sent on June 1, 2008 or after because after June 1, new ABA members receive membership during the remaining months of this fiscal year ending in August and all of the next year beginning in September.  

Thank you in advance for supporting this important Section program.  We look forward to celebrating a successful Race to 10K.

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