1. Are you looking for leadership opportunities?
2. Do you want to find a way to serve in the legal community?
3. Do you want to become president of the Utah State Bar someday?
4. Are you looking to meet new colleagues in the legal profession?
5. Do you want to become the ruler of the free world?

Greetings,

As the Holidays grow near, I ask that you focus your giving this year on the youth in our communities. Not only would you be giving your time to these youth during the Holiday's, your one on one mentoring relationship would grow well into the New Year and hopefully for a lifetime. I have many youth waiting to be matched with a mentor, specifically male mentors. On November 22, I will be conducting a new mentor orientation and ask that you fill out the attached application and send it back to me no later than next Monday November 10, so we can get your application processed and get you matched with a youth on the 22nd. I know during the Holiday Season we all get very busy, but one hour a week could be all the time needed to change the future for these youth. Please forward this email to everyone you know, our youth can use all the support they can get.

The Utah Judicial Council seeks an attorney with experience in representing parents in juvenile court cases involving allegations of dependency, abuse and neglect to participate in the Judicial Council's Standing Committee on Children and Family Law. This committee was created by the Judicial Council in 1999 to review problems in the administration of justice in family law, such as programmatic and geographic voids in services, procedural reforms, and the unmet legal needs of children and families; to develop and recommend solutions to those problems, excluding structural reorganization of the courts; to supervise and assist in implementing solutions; to provide a forum for debate on political and policy issues facing public and private institutions in their effort to deliver services to children and families; to develop and recommend a model and role for community based councils on children and family law and a model for their relationship to the standing committee; and to supervise and assist in establishing community based councils. The committee is governed by Rules 1-205 and 4-908 of the Code of Judicial Administration. The committee typically meets quarterly on Friday afternoons in Salt Lake City. The members are appointed by the Judicial Council for three-year terms. It is anticipated that the appointment would begin in approximately March of 2009.

The SJ Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah has partnered with several sections of the Utah State Bar (including WLU and UMBA) to provide mentorship oppportunities for law students. There was such a good response from the students that the program is in need of additional mentors. The program is very simple - you meet with your mentee for at least several events throughout the year that the school or other organizations sponsor. You are also welcome (and encouraged) to meet with students outside of those events as well. Please contact Angelina Tsu at angelina.tsu@zionsbancorp.com to sign up.

We appreciate your support of this event!