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YLD Committee Preference Form
The committees of the Young Lawyers Division are responsible for the planning and implementation of many of its projects. To know more about the committees, contact rgarner@msbar.org or get involved now by completing the following form!
- Bar Admissions Ceremony - This Committee's primary responsibility will be to contact Judges and Deans for their participation in the Fall and Spring ceremonies, as well as attend each ceremony.
- Child Advocacy - This committee will focus on legal issues concerning children.
- Disaster Legal Assistance - This committee will plan an instructional program for the YLD County Coordinators in case of a natural disaster and update the Disaster Legal Assistance manual.
- Diversity in the Law - This committee will encourage minority members to participate in Young Lawyers Division activities and promote minority involvement in the legal profession with college undergraduate and law students throughout the year.
- High School Mock Trial Competition - This committee will focus on judge recruitment and directing of each Regional location and the Statewide Competition.
- Law School Relations - This committee will promote and conduct a 3rd year professionalism program at the University of Mississippi Law School and Mississippi College School of Law.
- Lawyer in Every Classroom- This committee will help coordinate the pairing of Mississippi teachers and attorneys and developing lessons for the year.
- Public Service - This committee will execute the "Wills for Heroes" Program in Mississippi.
- Publications - This committee will create, publish and market a Law Related Education Brochure.
- Seminars - This committee will plan and implement a series of live CLE teleconferences and seminars throughout the year, including the Bridge the Gap Seminar.
- Women and the Law - This committee will distribute the third edition of "A Guide to Women's Legal Rights in Mississippi."