It is my pleasure to
address you for the first time as the Chancellor of the
Louis D. Brandeis Law Society. We are in the
process of creating new stationery but need some input
from our ad hoc committee. We will create stationery,
new by-laws, etc, once and do it correctly.
As you know, the executive
committee of the Philadelphia Chapter of TER made the
decision to separate from the National this past
December because we felt that our agenda had
significantly diverged from that of National. Although
our mission, "to promote the personal and professional
interest of our members of the Bench and Bar and to
provide opportunities for leadership development, social
interaction, education and community service" remains
the same, we have changed our name, after input from
several of our members, to The Louis D. Brandeis Law
Society.
I want to reiterate our
congratulations to our members who have recently won Bar
elections, Alan Feldman, Sayde Ladov, Marc Cohen,
Marla Joseph, Daniel Alva, Mary Platt, Michael Adler,
and Shira Goodman.
I also want to remind you
of some of our upcoming events: We are having an
evening of cocktails and the Theater on February
7, 2004 when we see The Producers. We will
sponsor another CLE class in April jointly with the
Brehons and the Justinians which will be subsidized for
all members in good standing of the Louis D. Brandeis
Law Society. Jewish Law Day is coming up in June and
our next planning meeting is January 27, 2004. All
members are welcome. We are working on our day of
service in conjunction with the United Way in memory of
Stuart Agins (z''l). We are planning a meet your new
Jewish appellate judges program which will occur either
in the Spring or in Early Fall.
I enjoyed seeing many of
you at our first free CLE class with Professor Edward
Ohlbaum and look forward to seeing even more of you on
January 21, 2004, at the Bar Association, 11th
floor committee room, for our next meeting when we hear
from Yoel Mester, Vice Consul General for the State of
Israel.
You may recently have
received a dues notice from National TER. If it is your
desire to continue to be a member of TER, please do so.
We wish them well, but wish to point out that at the
present time there is no Jewish law society other than
the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society that is based locally,
in Philadelphia, to provide opportunities for
educational, leadership, social interaction or community
service. You may certainly choose to support either or
both National TER or the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society;
however, please remember that only a dues paying (or
exempt) member of the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society will
be entitled to participate in our local programming.
Mailed separately, please
find your dues notice for the coming year. All of the
dues will be used for local programming which benefits
you. On behalf of the officers of the board of the
Louis D. Brandeis Law Society, we all look forward to
seeing you at our future events and in working with you
in the coming year.
We hope that this
metamorphosis into the Louis J. Brandeis Law Society is
seamless. However, if you have any questions about the
recent events please do not hesitate to call me or
e-mail me.
