President’s Message

NOVEMBER 2024

This newsletter will be reaching you just days before the November election, though many of you might have participated in early voting.  If you have not, early voting ends on Sunday November 3, 2024, and the election itself is on Tuesday November 5, 2024.  Please vote in this year’s election.  And when doing so please vote “Yes” on Proposition 1 – you must flip over your ballot to find the Propositions.  This important proposition would add the Equal Rights Amendment to the State’s constitution.  Hopefully I will have good news on its passage in the next newsletter.

There are two committees I want to highlight this month.  First, the Mentoring Committee, chaired by Melissa Ephron-Mandel and the Hon. Carmen Pacheco. There are currently two mentoring circles, one on Mondays at lunchtime and the other on Thursday mornings.  If you are interested in joining either circle, or interested in helping to start a new mentoring circle please email the co-chairs.

Second, the Newsletter Committee – the ones who put out this very newsletter you are reading – led by Olivia Sohmer and Isiris Isaac.  While they do an incredible job putting this newsletter together they need you to help provide the content.  If you are a co-chair of a committee, think about writing a piece about your committee meeting or event– or ask one of the members to write it.   If there is an interesting development in the law in your practice area, think about writing a piece about it.  The newsletter – the entire NYWBA – is all about you.

Please check the calendar on our website for all upcoming events and CLEs.

And again, the NYWBA membership year began on June 1, 2024.  I encourage all members to renew now if they haven’t already.

Jocelyn Jacobson