Happy Holidays! I hope that you have had a great holiday season and that you are feeling refreshed and ready to take on 2022!
The PCBA will be hosting the CLE Winter Series via Zoom again this year. With concerns around COVID-19 and weather delays, the CLE committee determined that this was the best way to provide reliable, pertinent and cost-effective CLE to the membership. As always, we welcome your feedback with respect to CLE delivery as we continue to navigate the new normal.
Soon you will be receiving an invitation to the PCBA’s signature event, the Lincoln Memorial Banquet. This year, in addition to being entertained with a speech from Lincoln scholar Dr. Graham Peck from the University of Illinois, we will be honoring ten new members of the PCBA Foundation’s Pillars of the Bar. These lawyers are the best of the best, and they have made the practice of law better in our community. It is not hyperbole to say that the Pillars of the Bar have raised the Bar for all of us!
The Lincoln Memorial Banquet is a long-standing tradition, and the last time that we gathered for this event, we were just a few weeks away from a tectonic shift in the way that we all interact in public, the way that we carry out our work, and the way that we interact with family. To say the least, the world has changed since February 2020! Out of respect for our speaker, our honored guests, and each other, the PCBA requests that all attendees of the Lincoln Memorial Banquet be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend. There is plenty of time to get a vaccine before February 17, so please do so and join us to honor President Lincoln and our Pillars of the Bar.
Last, but not least, be on the lookout for communications about the next “Donut Friday”- date TBD! The PCBA hosted its first “Donut Friday” in December as a small “thank you” and treat for members. Come by the Janssen Building and pick up a donut to go before or after your CMCs.
PCBA President,
Emily H. Wilburn