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Corporate Counsel Section
Chairs: Chris Casper - Caspers Company and Michael Stein - American Integrity Insurance Group
W
e are looking forward
to a new year again
chairing the HCBA’s
Corporate Counsel
Section. This year we are expanding
our experts to bring in new members
and volunteers to assist with our
programming, while attempting to
expand our reach. The Corporate
Counsel Section of the HCBA is
unique, in that it brings together
not only attorneys who work
in-house for various corporations
in the Tampa Bay Area, but also
invites the active participation
of any other attorneys who work
with corporate counsel in their
practice and who may be involved
in assisting companies with the
issues their legal departments might
be charged with handling.
The Corporate Counsel Section
is also different from other Sections
in that it caters to a diverse group
of in-house attorneys, many of
whom may not have ties to the
Tampa Bay area or the Hillsborough
County Bar Association, because
they come from other areas of
the country. As the Corporate
Counsel Section seeks to expand
its programming, involvement and
reach both in our local Bar and
in the greater community, we
are looking for input on how this
Section can better assist and benefit
both the
corporate
corporate
environment
community and
to give back to
the private
the community.
practitioners
The partner -
who wish
ship teams up
to become
local attorneys
involved.
and corporate
As the new
counsel to
Bar year kicks
provide pro
off, we will be
bono services to
The Corporate Counsel
providing a
those in need.
section is unique, in that
survey to our
The Corporate
members to seek
Counsel Section
it brings together not
new ideas, and
hosts Tampa
only attorneys who work
to find out what
Bay Pro Bono
you think has
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in-house for various
worked and not
annual spring
corporations, but also
worked in the
kickoff and
past and to get
encourages its
invites the active
a better idea of
members to
participation of any other
what you want
select pro bono
attorneys who work
from your
projects that
Section. In
interest them.
with corporate counsel
addition to
To further the
in their practice.
the survey, we
Corporate
encourage you
Counsel
to contact us
Section’s pro
with any ideas
bono efforts,
you have regarding both
we are also looking for members
programming and getting the local
who are interested in serving as a
corporate attorneys more active in
liaison on the HCBA’s pro bono
the HCBA.
committee, along with assisting in
In addition to serving as a
the planning of other pro bono
conduit for interaction between
events for the Section.
corporate attorneys, private
The Corporate Counsel Section
practitioners, and the Bar, our
is excited about the new Bar year
Section encourages its members to
and expanding its membership and
do pro bono work. The corporate
programming to fit the unique needs
counsel section has had the
of this Section. We encourage you
privilege of being the sponsor of
to get involved and help us plan the
Tampa Bay Pro Bono Partners for
new year. Please contact the
several years. Tampa Bay Pro Bono
committee chairs with any ideas —
Partners allows corporate attorneys
we are eager to hear from you. n
who may not be an expert in a
certain area or wish to get involved
Author: Michael B. Stein - American
in legal work outside of their
Integrity Insurance Group
Contact Michael Stein at mstein@aiicfl.com with your ideas.
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HCBA LAWYER