The Mississippi Bar election ballots are in the mail this week. The Bar has contracted with VR Election Services to conduct our election. We are implementing a new online voting system as well as continuing our mail ballots. It is easy to use and reduces

The Supreme Court has created the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission. Its purpose is to examine jury instructions used in state courts and recommend plain language instructions which would offer clearer

The Bar's 2nd CLE on the Road Seminar for 2008-09 will be held at the Country

 Inn & Suites in Natchez on Friday, January 30, 2009. Brochures for the meeting

will be mailed to lawyers in the surrounding areas before Christmas.  Six (6) hours

Join the ABA Law Practice Management Section as it presents ABA TECHSHOW 2009 from April 2-4, 2009 at the Hilton Chicago hotel, in the magnificent Windy City!  Take advantage of the world's premier legal technology conference and expo, register

In December the FDIC unanimously adopted the FDIC staff’s recommended modifications to the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program -- the recommended changes included providing full insurance coverage for IOLTA.  As a result of the FDIC action,

Attorney volunteers (of any age) are needed to judge during the 2009 Mississippi High School Mock Trial Competition. There will be four Regional Competitions – Oxford (Jan. 24), Jackson (Jan. 31), Gulfport (Feb. 7) and Hattiesburg (Feb. 14), and the

The Hinds County Bar Association is organizing a group of lawyers to march in the Martin Luther King, Jr., Parade in Jackson, Mississippi on Saturday, January 17, 2009, beginning at 10 a.m. The Hinds County Bar invites Mississippi

The Bar’s Professionalism Committee is in the initial stages of establishing a pilot mentoring program for new admittees. The committee in cooperation with both Mississippi law schools is assigning admittees to participate in the pilot program. Designated

The weekly e-newsletter, Bar Briefs, contains current information and resources for members of the MS Bar. However, with so much e-mail communication, inboxes are often cleaned out immediately only to find that information has been deleted that may need