UMBA now has its own membership group on the professional networking site, LinkedIn. Please join our group.

The Asian Chamber of Commerce is hosting its annual Gala on Saturday, March 14, 2009. UMBA has graciously agreed to subsidize half the price of a ticket for interested UMBA members (for a total of 10 tickets). Anyone interested in attending must RSVP to Tammy Georgelas (tgeorgelas@scmlaw.com) and send their checks for payment of those tickets no later than March 10, 2009.

We have been informed that the deadline for nominations for the following awards is due on January 16, 2009.

More information regarding these awards are published in the Bar Journal for January 2009. These awards are given out at the Mid-Year Meeting in St George, Utah. If you know of anyone within our legal community who is deserving of this award, please nominate him or her.

American Bar Association's Section of Business Law is requesting nomination for the following awards.

2009 Jean Allard Glass Cutter Award

http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/committees/CL360000pub/glasscutter.shtml

The Jean Allard Glass Cutter Award is presented annually to an exceptional woman business lawyer who has made significant contributions both to the profession and to the Section of Business Law. The award is named for Jean Allard, the first woman to chair the Section. The 2009 Award will be presented at the 2009 Spring Meeting in Vancouver, BC.

http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/students/clerkship.shtml

In recent years, many areas of the legal profession have made pursuing diversity a priority objective. Business law presents many distinct diversity challenges, as law students are often unfamiliar with the field and perceive it as conservative and unaccepting. This realization is troubling, particularly for the American Bar Association Section of Business Law because its mission is: