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, 11^th 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.