ACYL
ACYL: A NEW YEAR
SECTION UPDATE
ACYL
Matthew J. Simmons Shepherd Law LLC msimmons @ shepherdlaw. net
ACYL: A NEW YEAR
This summer the ACYL Board has been busy planning for another event-packed year. We are excited to get the year started with a Happy Hour at TAP in Midtown on August 25, 2016, followed by our Associates’ Campaign Kick-Off Happy Hour on September 22, 2016( location to be determined). Ellis Liu, Matt Gass, and Nina Maja Bergmar will be co-chairing the Associates’ Campaign this year. They will work with Atlanta-area associate attorneys to raise donations for Atlanta-area legal non-profits. As in prior years, we are in need of volunteer firm coordinators to serve as a liaison within their respective firms to help us raise donations from their associates. Please contact Ellis Liu at eliu @ gordonrees. com if you wish to volunteer to serve as your firm’ s coordinator. Ellis, Matt, and Nina will circulate more information about the Associates’ Campaign to our fellow members by email and at the Associates’ Campaign Kick-Off Happy Hour.
We are continuing our very successful“ Life of a Trial” Beer and CLE Series this Fall as well as our“ Life of a Deal” seminar in the Spring. We are also continuing our Mentoring Breakfasts this year. The goal of the Mentoring Breakfasts is to deliver to new lawyers valuable“ real world” information that is not typically covered in law school curriculum. Please join us for the upcoming Mentoring Breakfasts this Fall.
volunteer efforts, we look forward to continuing our support of the volunteer work of others including, in particular, the Law School Outreach Committee and the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation. We are planning several community service events this year, so stay tuned!
For those who would like to find out more information about the ACYL schedule of events, our Facebook page provides event updates and also serves as a forum for questions, suggestions and networking.
We can also be contacted through the Atlanta Bar Association website, and I am happy to answer any questions you may have by email at msimmons @ shepherdlaw. net.
If you would like our group to get involved in any particular program or event, we welcome and encourage opportunities to team up with other sections / groups and we appreciate any suggestions regarding events and event content! ACYL members enjoyed a night of great music performed by many talented young Atlanta attorneys in June in support of the Atlanta Bar’ s LawJam Battle of the Lawyer Bands fundraiser. In addition to leading our own
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