Designed specifically for BAMSL, watch the playback of the November 15th How Attorneys Can Experience More Peace and Less Pressure During the Holidays CLE. You will learn how to build your personal holiday playbook to address the inevitable seasonal pressures around countless holiday parties, escalating family and business conflicts, endless people pleasing, and year-end financial performance – to find more peace.

Register for part 2 on Wednesday, December 13 from 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT HERE

SAINTS PETER AND PAUL COMMUNITY KITCHEN - MEALS FOR THE NEEDY

The Women in the Legal Profession Section invite you to join us for Meals for the Needy Community Service event of Monday December 4 from 3:30 –6:30 p.m. at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church located at 816 Allen Street, St. Louis, MO 63104

For more than 30 years, Motion for Kids has provided gifts for up to 2,500 St. Louis area children in the foster care system or children whose lives have been severely impacted by the criminal justice system.

Motion for Kids partners with local support organizations to identify the children invited to participate. Those children are matched up with sponsors from the St. Louis legal community (lawyers, judges, paralegals, office administrators, law students, legal secretaries, and their families). Each sponsor is asked to purchase and wrap two gifts (totaling $30) chosen from the child's wish list. Gifts are distributed at an event to which the children and their families are invited.

Since 2022, the holiday event has been held at Harris-Stowe State University's Emerson Performance Center. Motion for Kids is hosted by The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the Saint Louis Bar Foundation with generous support from Harris-Stowe State University, the St. Louis Cardinals, the St. Louis Blues, the Isaac Bruce Foundation, and many others.

Michael McKitrick, veteran attorney, reflects on his five decades in the legal profession, highlighting significant changes that have shaped the practice of law. These changes include the march of technology, the addition of women to the legal profession, the rise of specialization, and advertising. Mr. McKitrick acknowledges that while technology and societal shifts have transformed the legal profession, some core aspects remain unchanged. Legal analysis, client interactions, and the importance of professionalism and ethics persist, even as lawyers adapt to evolving trends. 

Read More in our BAMSL blog, located on our website!

Do you know a lawyer, non-lawyer, or program that has demonstrated accomplishments, leadership and integrity in fostering and maintaining the rule of law, and in facilitating and promoted improvement of the administration of justice? Nominate them for a Spirit of Justice award!

The deadline for submission is November 24, 2023.

Join us on January 12, 2024 from 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CT for a remarkable luncheon where we celebrate and honor the extraordinary achievements of two legal pioneers who have blazed a trail for minorities in the legal profession. Nominated by members and selected by the Minorities in the Legal Profession (MILP) section, it is a privilege to announce that BAMSL’s 2024 Legal Pioneers are Honorable Kendra Howard and Bhavik Patel.

We live and work in a world where things feel pretty dire. The old complaint that the news never shows the good in humanity doesn’t feel so much like a complaint as it does a reality. Life kicks us while we’re down every day with a new set of crises—personal, professional, and humanitarian—and we are expected to go about our daily routines unbothered by the utter devastation happening around us. We cannot help but become cynics. If you can’t tell that I’ve fallen prey to that cynicism, re-read the first paragraph of this article. But, when we search for a way to crawl out of this dark hole we sometimes find ourselves in, we realize that there is one distinct remedy that can cure us of our ills. And that is hope...

Read More in the November-December issue of the St. Louis Lawyer, coming soon! 

Presented by BAMSL's Young Lawyers Division (YLD)

On behalf of BAMSL's Young Lawyers Division (YLD), new lawyers who passed the February 2023 or July 2023 Missouri/Illinois Bar Exams and all BAMSL members are cordially invited to a Welcome to the Bar reception on Wednesday, November 15, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CT.

Upcoming topics:

Winter 2024 (previously announced): Intellectual Property

Spring 2024: Workers’ Compensation

Summer 2024: Appellate Law and Practice

Fall 2024: Tax Law

Winter 2025: Admiralty Law

Please join BAMSL's Attorneys Against Hunger and Veterans Committees as we participate in The Kaufman Fund's Food 4 Vets program to distribute food on Saturday, November 11th (Veterans Day) between 10:00am and 12:00pm at the Salvation Army Citadel, 824 Union, St. Louis, MO 63123.  Please arrive by 9:00am to help set up.  You are NOT required to be there for the full 3 hours.  Help is needed to load food, traffic control, registration and handing out vouchers.  This will be outdoors, so please dress appropriately.