Affordable Housing Advocates (AHA) is seeking applications from attorneys who are interested in serving on the board of directors, on a board committee or as an advisor, for three year terms. Applicants must practice or reside in San Diego County or the region.

AHA provides free legal assistance to low income residents of San Diego County. For more information about AHA please visit our website at www.affordablehousingadvocates.org.

Interested attorneys should send a letter and resume or curriculum vitae to: Affordable Housing Advocates, 303 A Street, Suite 300, San Diego, CA 92101 or ahadvocates@sbcglobal.net. While applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, the application deadline to serve the three year term commencing January 2009, is December 19, 2008.

For a full list of volunteer opportunities, visit www.sdcba.org/volunteer.html.

• The SDCBA Conference of Delegates Legislative Committee would like to solicit your input for proposed new or revised legislation. This is a forum in which members may propose changes to the statutory law of California, the Rules of Court, and other rules and procedures governing lawyers and the practice of law in California. If you would like to improve the law to serve the changing needs of society, please submit your ideas for proposed resolutions to the SDCBA Conference of Delegates Legislative Committee to Janet Grant at jgrant@sdcba.org by December 5, 2008.
  
  
• Risky Business: Navigating the Latest Ethical Rules is now available as an Online Seminar -The SDCBA, working with Ahern Insurance Brokerage and XL Capital, the SDCBA’s exclusive insurance brokerage providers, designed this seminar to help legal professionals avoid situations that could lead to malpractice lawsuits. Credit has been approved with the State Bar of California for the following participatory credits: 0.5 General and 2.5 Legal Ethics credits.
  Click here for additional information and to register (please note, SDCBA members and non-members will have to enter all contact information in order to register - current sdcba.org usernames and passwords will not be accepted.)
  


• The White House Fellows Association will host an information session for the White Fellows Program beginning at noon on December 1 at the SDCBA Bar Center. For more information about the information session, click here.
  


• VIP Mentors, a unique mentoring program that pairs attorneys with parolees, is in jeopardy of having to discontinue their services, as the program will no longer be funded by the California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation. VIP mentors is looking to the public to for financial support until more permanent funding can be secured. Those who generally donate to VIP Mentors at the end of the calendar year or in conjunction with the organization's annual awards luncheon each January are urged to donate what is possible at this time. For more information and to donate online visit www.vipmentors.org/default.html or call Jim Pauley at 619.220.5348.
  
  
• Make sure to update contact information for the SDCBA's 2009 San Diego Lawyer Directory. You may update your information and find instructions for submitting a photo here. Don't miss the opportunity to advertise in the 2009 Directory. For more information on advertising, email adsales@sdcba.org.

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