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• NOVABAA Officers' Elections

  • When
    November 03, 2024
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom (Virtual)

  

  

  It's that time again!

  Are you interested in serving as a NOVABAA Officer?  After four incredibly long, tedious and burdensome years, our officers are stepping down and moving on to other challenges.  If you are interested in serving NOVABAA as an officer, whether it is as our 16th President, or perhaps as Vice President, Secretary or Treasurer, now is your time to shine!

  If you are interested, please submit a letter of interest to novabaa@gmail.com and copy president@novabaa.org by October 27, 2024 (1 week prior) .  Everyone who submits a letter will be placed on the ballot.  The letter should include their goals and vision for their role in NOVABAA and what they hope to accomplish in that role as well as a little bit about yourself and prior service/roles (whether professionally, in other bar associations, or other organizations) that you've held that will help you.  Note that we will accept nominations from the floor as well.  So if you do not submit your name by October 27, 2024 (1 week prior), you are still eligible to run, but your name will not be on the ballot.

  A Special Meeting will be held virtually via Zoom on Sunday November 3, 2024 at 7pm for the purpose of conducting NOVABAA's Elections for the upcoming two year term.  Only dues paid members will be permitted to (1) run for office, and (2) vote. The Zoom meeting credentials and login are accessible here.  You will be admitted into the meeting once dues paid membership is confirmed.

  Finally, if you are interested in serving, but not as an officer - please reach out to the incoming President.  Under our bylaws, they are the ones who will choose the Committee Chairs and the direction NOVABAA goes.  We've had a helluva ride, and I look forward to heckling our incoming leadership seeing the new incredible things that NOVABAA does as it improves upon the things we have done.

  The Deadline to get on the Ballot is October 27, 2024 (1 week before the election), but you may run from the floor if you so choose.  A reminder will be sent on 10/27 just in case.

  Have a great weekend!
  El Jefe

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• NOVABAA Judicial Screening Interviews

  • When
    November 04, 2024
  • Location
    TBD

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  ️ ALL HANDS ON DECK!

  Afternoon Saints!

  I hope you all are settling into your well deserved weekend.  Now that I have your attention, we need all hands on deck for Judicial Screenings across Northern Virginia.  Fairfax Circuit, Fairfax General District Court, Alexandria Circuit, Alexandria Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, and Arlington General District Court are all interviewing judicial candidates for vacancies within those courts.  Several NOVABAA members have put their names in for consideration across these vacancies.  

  Judicial Screenings are perhaps the most important service that NOVABAA performs in our legal community.  It's critical that we remain engaged in this process moving forward.  I anticipate upwards of 30 candidates across the four courts that may need to be interviewed.  Though, the exact numbers I have no idea an out.  Fairfax is the only Bar to publish the list of applicants, and they have 15 candidates alone between their openings.  Everything in addition to that is just rumor and speculation.  

  Regardless, we need to be prepared to interview these candidates.  Given that things are still fluid, and we don't quite know precisely when the various judicial delegations are going to need these recommendations, we won't have specific interview dates for a mother couple of days.  Additionally, we are hopeful that APABA and/or HbA will join us in interviewing candidates - so there are a lot of logistical matters that need to be ironed out.

  At this point, the ONLY thing NOVABAA is asking you to do is to RSVP if you are interested in participating on a judicial screening panel when we convene them.  Whether you are available at the interview times is a whole other challenge.  But we do need to know how many interested Saints are out there who are willing to assist in doing the Lord's work.  If you are willing and able to serve, even if it's for one court, and not another (whether due to conflict or any other reason) please RSVP and we will follow up with you for details.  
  
  [Disregard the date listed - it's only there because we needed to have one in order to send out the RSVP.]

  Have a great weekend!
  El Jefe

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