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Dear Colleagues, I want to thank each one of you that chose to renew your membership in the Alexandria Bar Association. Our bar association is among the many volunteer local and specialty bars throughout Virginia and we could not exist without you. At last count there were still about 50 attorneys that have not renewed yet. We sincerely hope that you will choose to be a member again and continue to stay involved. One of the great programs offered by the Alexandria Bar Association is our Lawyer Referral Service. Last year the LRS referred 275 clients looking for legal services, and this year’s numbers are off to a strong start. To keep our LRS strong we need attorneys like you to sign up and be a part of the attorney referral list. A few years ago, we launched an online LRS service that streamlined participation for attorneys and clients. This program is fully functional right now. We have room for as many attorneys who want to participate in our LRS, but so far only 20 have signed up. Participating in the LRS is a great way to meet new clients and provide much-needed legal services to clients that would otherwise try to go it alone. Please consider signing up for LRS and encourage lawyers in your office to do the same. The September boat cruise was a great success. We had wonderful weather, a military flyover, and great music provided by our own Seth Obed. A big thank you to the bar staff for coordinating this annual tradition. I also want to thank our sponsors: Carr Workplaces; Redmond, Peyton & Braswell LLP; and Wade, Grimes, Friedman, Meinken & Leischner PLLC. I know everyone who came enjoyed it. We were honored to host Virginia State Bar President Leonard Heath, Jr. As many of you know, or are starting to hear, lawyer well being is a HUGE topic in Virginia this year. Mr. Heath spoke about the importance of wellness not only to practicing attorneys but also to law school students. I know many of you hire law students as interns. I would encourage you to talk to these students about the importance of wellness in their life as they embark on their careers. The Bar Foundation held its annual Little Theatre Event on Oct. 12, and it was a great success. The work doesn’t end there, however. The Foundation accepts donations all throughout the year. As a tax lawyer, I would be remiss if I didn’t encourage you to consider contributing money directly to the Foundation when you do your year-end tax planning. 2018 is the first year that many of the new changes in the tax law go into effect. Charitable contributions still provide an excellent way to reduce your tax bill. I am really excited about our Bench / Bar event this year. The date is going to be our normal third Thursday membership meeting, December 20. I know everyone will want to come and toast holiday cheer with your fellow colleagues. Our speaker this year is Gene Rossi. Mr. Rossi spent three decades at the Department of Justice as a federal prosecutor where he had more than 110 federal trials. In 2001, he became an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), which is known as the “Rocket Docket.” There, he led and supervised a vast array of significant investigations involving the opioid crisis, OCDETF, murder, health care, tax, immigration, public corruption, terrorism, and the environment. You can read more about him here: https://www.carltonfields.com/team/r/gene-rossi. Did you know? Did you know that the Virginia Bar Association started a new program last year that allows local bar associations to be listed as an Affiliated Bar? The Alexandria Bar Association is an affiliated bar because we have three officers that are members of the VBA. Benefits of affiliation extend to all of our members: use of the VBA on Main member center, discounted rates for VBA events, and access to the VBA legislative process. Sponsors! Do you know of a business that could benefit from exposure to our membership? If so, please consider asking them to sponsor one of our events. The bar office has details on the many opportunities available. Dues Working Group. The Board is launching a dues working group to analyze our association’s dues structure and make recommendation for next year. We need volunteers. Please contact the bar office if you are interested. G. Christopher Wright OYEZ Volume 36, Number 9 October 2018 PRESIDENT’S LETTER IN THIS ISSUE New and Returning Members Miss Mallory Cruise Beat The Odds Little Theater Event October Dinner Meet the Barristers Young Lawyers Happy Hour Profit and Loss Calendar 2 3 5 5 8 8 9 10
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Dear Colleagues,
I want to thank each one of you that chose to renew your membership in the Alexandria Bar Association. Our bar association is among the many volunteer local and specialty bars throughout Virginia and we could not exist without you. At last count there were still about 50 attorneys that have not renewed yet. We sincerely hope that you will choose to be a member again and continue to stay involved. One of the great programs offered by the Alexandria Bar Association is our Lawyer Referral Service. Last year the LRS referred 275 clients looking for legal services, and this year’s numbers are off to a strong start. To keep our LRS strong we need attorneys like you to sign up and be a part of the attorney referral list. A few years ago, we launched an online LRS service that streamlined participation for attorneys and clients. This program is fully functional right now. We have room for as many attorneys who want to participate in our LRS, but so far only 20 have signed up. Participating in the LRS is a great way to meet new clients and provide much-needed legal services to clients that would otherwise try to go it alone. Please consider signing up for LRS and encourage lawyers in your office to do the same. The September boat cruise was a great success. We had wonderful weather, a military flyover, and great music provided by our own Seth Obed. A big thank you to the bar staff for coordinating this annual tradition. I also want to thank our sponsors: Carr Workplaces; Redmond, Peyton & Braswell LLP; and Wade, Grimes, Friedman, Meinken & Leischner PLLC. I know everyone who came enjoyed it. We were honored to host Virginia State Bar President Leonard Heath, Jr. As many of you know, or are starting to hear, lawyer well being is a HUGE topic in Virginia this year. Mr. Heath spoke about the importance of wellness not only to practicing attorneys but also to law school students. I know many of you hire law students as interns. I would encourage you to talk to these students about the importance of wellness in their life as they embark on their careers. The Bar Foundation held its annual Little Theatre Event on Oct. 12, and it was a great success. The work doesn’t end there, however. The Foundation accepts donations all throughout the year. As a tax lawyer, I would be remiss if I didn’t encourage you to consider contributing money directly to the Foundation when you do your year-end tax planning. 2018 is the first year that many of the new changes in the tax law go into effect. Charitable contributions still provide an excellent way to reduce your tax bill. I am really excited about our Bench / Bar event this year. The date is going to be our normal third Thursday membership meeting, December 20. I know everyone will want to come and toast holiday cheer with your fellow colleagues. Our speaker this year is Gene Rossi. Mr. Rossi spent three decades at the Department of Justice as a federal prosecutor where he had more than 110 federal trials. In 2001, he became an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), which is known as the “Rocket Docket.” There, he led and supervised a vast array of significant investigations involving the opioid crisis, OCDETF, murder, health care, tax, immigration, public corruption, terrorism, and the environment. You can read more about him here: https://www.carltonfields.com/team/r/gene-rossi. Did you know? Did you know that the Virginia Bar Association started a new program last year that allows local bar associations to be listed as an Affiliated Bar? The Alexandria Bar Association is an affiliated bar because we have three officers that are members of the VBA. Benefits of affiliation extend to all of our members: use of the VBA on Main member center, discounted rates for VBA events, and access to the VBA legislative process. Sponsors! Do you know of a business that could benefit from exposure to our membership? If so, please consider asking them to sponsor one of our events. The bar office has details on the many opportunities available. Dues Working Group. The Board is launching a dues working group to analyze our association’s dues structure and make recommendation for next year. We need volunteers. Please contact the bar office if you are interested.
G. Christopher Wright
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ESTABLISHED 1928THE ALEXANDRIA BAR ASSOCIATION 520 King StreetSuite 202Alexandria, VA 22314
703.548.1106 tel 703.548.1105 lrs 703.548.4292 fax
[email protected] Alexandriabarva.org
2018-2019EXECUTIVE BOARDOFFICERSG. Christopher Wright, President Jessica Leischner, President-Elect Tamika Jones, TreasurerRebecca Wade, SecretaryDipti Pidikiti-Smith, Immediate Past-President
DIRECTORSClarissa PintadoBrent SchultheisPhoenix AyotteColleen HaddowAnn Loughlin, Executive Director Sarah Feighery, Deputy Director Daniel Mauler, Photographer
BAR OFFICE HOURS9:00 am to 5:00 pmMonday to Thursday
LRS OFFICE HOURS9:00 am to 3:00 pmMonday to ThursdayAlexandria Bar Association520 King Street, Rm 202 Alexandria, VA 22314Phone: 703-548-1106Fax: 703-548-4292
Our Annual Membership Kick-Off event on the Miss Mallory Cruise was a great success! We were fortunate with great weather again this year! The sights and sounds along the Potomac were lively and beautiful, and the military fly over was a nice surprise. Many joined us for the delicious King Street Blues buffet, drinks and lots of fun catching up with colleagues…and a happy birthday, too, for Drew Hutcheson!
Continuing tradition, we welcomed aboard the president of the Virginia State Bar for 2018-19, Leonard C. Heath Jr. Heath of Newport News, was sworn in as the 80th president of the Virginia State Bar on June 15, 2018, and is a partner at Heath, Overbey, Verser & Old PLC. He spoke with the group about lawyer wellness and mentoring young lawyers as well. We have a Lawyer Wellness Committee this year and hope that you will join us as we make this a priority for our membership.
Our cruise was sponsored this year by:
Wade Grimes Friedman Meinken & Leischner,
Redmon Peyton & Braswell and
Carr Workplaces (https://carrworkplaces.com/).
Dan Healy is our contact at Carr Workplaces. Please check out the website and contact Dan at the Alexandria office with any inquiries (703.647.7513 ).
We greatly appreciate the support of our sponsors and their contribution to keeping this long-standing cruise tradition afloat! If you or your organization would like to sponsor one of our events, please let us know.
MISS MALLORY CRUISE, SEPTEMBER 20, 2018NEW & RETURNING MEMBERSWilliam Babcock Babcock & Jensen PC [email protected]
Xue Connelly Wade Grimes Friedman Meinken & Leischner connelly@oldtownlawyerscom
David Damiani Damiani & Damiani [email protected]
James Devita James A. Devita, Esq. [email protected]
Stan Doerrer Stan Doerrer, Esq. [email protected]
Adrienne Fine Office of the City Attorney adrienne.fine@alexandria va.gov
Amanda Hayes Redmon Peyton & Braswell [email protected]
Carmen Jacobs Carmen A. Jacobs, PC [email protected]
Kiersten Jensen Babcock & Jensen PC [email protected]
Donna Kamm Donna Kamm, Esq. [email protected]
Karen Snow Office of the City Attorney [email protected]
Wallace Wason Bartoli Cain & Wason PLLC [email protected]
Arthur Lander Arthur Lander, CPA, PC [email protected]
David Lanier Office of the City Attorney [email protected]
Christopher Moffitt Law Offices of Christopher S. Moffitt [email protected]
Alison Mullins Rich Rosenthal Brincefield Manitta Dzubin & Kroeger, LLP [email protected]
Greg Murhpy G. L. Murphy Law [email protected]
Nakhleh Rothfeld LLP William Nakhleh [email protected]
Paula Potoczak Law Office of Paula M. Potoczak [email protected]
Andrew Rivera Andrew Rivera, Esq. [email protected]
Meghan Roberts Office of the City Attorney meghan.roberts@alexandria va.org
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BEAT THE ODDS LITTLE THEATER EVENT
This year’s Little Theater event to benefit the Beat the Odds Scholarship Program was a terrific success with a packed house to see the Bram Stoker classic, Dracula (adaptation written by Steven Dietz). It was a fabulous show and all who attended were impressed with yet another great production at the Little Theater of Alexandria. They are always so gracious to let us host our first fund-raiser of the year for Beat the Odds at the theater. Thank you LTA!
The out-pouring of support from Association members, guests, and the community brought in roughly $3,000 in show tickets and $1,000 in raffle ticket sales. The top prize winner of the 50/50 cash raffle was our own Bar Association President, Chris Wright! “I never win anything,” says Chris, and he was so thrilled to win that he donated his portion of the prize back to the Beat the Odds scholarship fund! Thank you, Chris! Other prize winners were Gretchyn Meinken (Spa gift certificate) and Misha Gill (Kazan Restaurant gift card). Thanks to all who bought show and raffle tickets!
Many thanks to Maana Parcham from the Commonwealth’s Attorney Office, and Jeanne Franklin for “spearheading” this year’s event. Your hard work paid off and the event was a huge success! Thank you Maana and Jeanne! We hope to see many members attend the Beat the Odds Awards Program and Dinner on Thursday, April 11th (save the date!) at which time the scholarships will be awarded to many deserving students from Alexandria. As a reminder, this awards dinner also serves as the monthly membership dinner for April and all current Association members are welcome to attend. The event will take place in the Alexandria Courthouse on the 4th Floor.
If you were unable to attend the BTO event at the Little Theater, but would like to contribute to the scholarship program, please send your donation to the Bar Assoc. office (checks payable to “The Alexandria Bar Foundation”) or call us and we can process a credit card donation. (703-548-1106).
The October monthly membership dinner was held on October 18 at the American Legion. Oktoberfest! Brats, pies and lots of good company. Greg Wade was our guest speaker. It was great to hear his interesting story of balancing life and work when his family moved to Spain years ago.
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MEET THE BARRISTERS
Meet the Barristers! At O’Connell’s on October 23.
YOUNG LAWYERS HAPPY HOUR
Young Lawyers’ Happy Hour at Port City Brewery, Oct. 2018
Accrual Basis Monday, October 29, 2018 06:04 AM GMT-7 1/2
Alexandria Bar AssociationPROFIT AND LOSSJuly 2017 - June 2018
TOTAL
Income
305 Membership Dues Income 86,274.62
307 Continuing Legal Ed. Income 3,373.00
308 LRS fees Income 16,044.50
309 Advertising Income 280.00
310 Gridiron Income 18,269.00
311 Monthly Meetings Inc. - nonmemb 727.50
312 Foundation Voluntary Contr Inc 770.00
314 Library Voluntary Contrib Inc 800.00
315 BTO Contributions 5,884.04
316 LRS Dues Income 4,675.00
317 Sponsorships Income 2,387.50
318 Special Events 3,567.50
325 Public Interest / CW Attorney Dues 1,170.00
395 Miscellaneous Income 220.00
398 Donations 200.00
Total Income $144,642.66
GROSS PROFIT $144,642.66
Expenses
415 Gross Wages 44,567.75
420 Payroll Taxes 3,527.56
509 Website -Support Services 1,020.00
511.01 Gridiron 16,164.50
511.02 Monthly Dinner Meetings 14,014.10
511.09 OYEZ-Newsletter Expense 528.75
512 Freight & Postage 248.40
513 Special Events Expense 3,335.00
513.3 LRS expenses 3,259.40
520 Rent/Non-1099 5,952.04
528 Computer - repairs & maint 612.00
529 Telephone 2,249.03
535 Insurance 2,517.77
545 Other Taxes 104.47
551 Bank Charges & Merchant Fees 2,881.04
552 Parking Expense 2,217.50
553 Travel Expenses 256.48
564 Accounting/Non-1099 8,323.25
565 Intuit QuickBooks Fees 600.00
566 Office Expense 3,556.05
567 Advertising/Promotional 1,639.09
580.04 Library Contributions-Mandatory 16,500.00
580.05 BTO 471.52
595 Miscellaneous 155.02
656 Payroll Processing Fees 1,179.75
Accrual Basis Monday, October 29, 2018 06:04 AM GMT-7 2/2
TOTAL
9999 Ask Client 0.00
Total Expenses $135,880.47
NET OPERATING INCOME $8,762.19
Other Income
350 Interest Income 3.51
Total Other Income $3.51
Other Expenses
Other Miscellaneous Expense 20.00
Total Other Expenses $20.00
NET OTHER INCOME $ -16.49
NET INCOME $8,745.70
ALEXANDRIA BAR ASSOCIATION PROFIT AND LOSSJuly 2017 - June 2018
CALENDAR
DECEMBERDec 6 Networking Lunch at O’Connells, 116 King Street, 12:30pm, $22 at the door.
Dec 11 LRS Committee Meeting—12:00pm Bring brown bag lunch. Chairperson Katelin Moomau @ [email protected].
Dec 12 Family Law Section Meeting—8am-Grenadier Room, City of Alexandria Law Library
Dec 19 Trusts and Estates/Tax Practice Group: This group meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 12:00 pm in the Grenadier Room of the Alexandria Law Library. Bring a bag lunch for this round-table discussion and networking opportunity. No RSVP necessary. You can contact Patience Alexander ([email protected]) or Chris Wright ([email protected]) with questions
Dec 20 Bench Bar—Courthouse, 4th floor, Holiday Reception with the Judges at 5:30pm—Guest Speaker is Gene Rossi. Please RSVP to the Bar Assoc. office at 703-548-1106 or at [email protected].
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Project Pegasus Night—
Our Meet the Barristers Night this year was on October 23, 2018 at O’Connell’s. We hosted the Pegasus Scholars : Jamie Scott of Gray’s Inn and Anthony Eskander of Innter Temple. A highlight of their Project Pegasus visit to the United States, of course, is the warm reception the Alexandria Bar Association provides, culminating with the award of our OFFICIAL Alexandria Bar Association pins in an ancient ritual right out of bloody Harry Potter. Our President, Chris Wright, presented the pins and O’Connell’s provided the pints. A special thank you to Phoenix Ayotte for her tremendous efforts in organizing this event.
This annual event is held in order to welcome the Pegasus Scholars of the American Inns of Court. The Pegasus Scholarship Trust is an exchange program, wherein young American Inns of Court members visit London for six weeks to learn about the English legal system and young English barristers visit the United States for six weeks to learn about the American legal system. The English barristers spent six weeks here and the American Inns of Court planned their educational activities.
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CALENDAR – NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2018
NOVEMBER Nov 1 Networking Lunch at O’Connells, 116 King Street, 12:30pm, $22 at the door.
Nov 6 Personal Injury Law Group. This group meets the 1st Tuesday of each month at 5:30pm at the Sheraton (801 N St Asaph St, Alexandria, VA 22314). Contact Gwendolyn Hickman ([email protected]) for further information.
Nov 6 Board of Directors meeting— 8am, location to be confirmed.
Nov 13 LRS Committee Meeting—12:00pm Bring brown bag lunch. Chairperson Katelin Moomau @ [email protected].
Nov 14 Family Law Section Meeting—8am—Grenadier Room, City of Alexandria Law Library
Nov 15 Monthly Membership Meeting Dinner—6-8pm at the American Legion at 400 Cameron Street, Alexandria, Va. Panelists will discuss the independence of the courts and the press.
Nov 21 Trusts and Estates/Tax Practice Group: This group meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 12:00 pm in the Grenadier Room of the Alexandria Law Library. Bring a bag lunch for this round-table discussion and networking opportunity. No RSVP necessary. You can contact Patience Alexander ([email protected]) or
Chris Wright ([email protected]) with questions.
Nov 28 CLE committee meeting— 4pm— location TBD.
DECEMBER Dec 4 Personal Injury Law Group-This group meets the 1st Tuesday of each month at 5:30pm at the Sheraton (801 N St Asaph St, Alexandria, VA 22314). Contact Gwendolyn Hickman ([email protected]) for further information.
Dec 4 Board of Directors meeting—8am, location to be confirmed.
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