NSW Young Lawyers

A Welcome From The President

Welcome to the NSW Young Lawyers website. You can read all about our recent highlights, events to diarise and items of importance below. But first, I'd like to announce that NSW Young Lawyers will be holding a competition to select a new tagline. After many years, we have decided to review the "A Fresh Perspective" tagline and see whether we can come up with something a bit... fresher. So, over to you. We are calling on our Members to come up with a new tagline, which is creative and appropriately adapted to the brand-image that NSW Young Lawyers is trying to convey. Entries should be sent to secretary@younglawyers.com.au and close on 29 August 2008, so get thinking! The winning entry will be decided by the Office Bearers and will receive a prize in accordance with that decision; no correspondence will be entered into.

What's been happening?

Over the past few months we have continued to make detailed submissions to government, plan our first-class CLE programme, work on updates to our publications and ensure our Committee members are apprised of the latest news in their particular areas of practice. The NSW Young Lawyers Council has also recently adopted an Email Policy, which will govern the content of all NSW Young Lawyers-related email communications from now into the future.

Upcoming events

There are a number of upcoming events that you should diarise now. First, the Civil Litigation Committee (in conjunction with others) has organised a forum entitled "The Legal Profession: Myth versus Reality", to be held at the Metcalfe Auditorium in the State Library on 27 August 2008 at 5.45 pm. The luminaries who will be presenting include Richard Ackland and Professor Ian Hickie. RSVPs must be sent to ylgeneral@lawsocnsw.asn.au.

Secondly, the Young Professionals Ball will be held on Saturday, 6 September 2008 at the Hilton Hotel. The Ball, which has been sold out, will have over 300 attendees from various professions and will feature fantastic prizes and displays from our sponsors, including Carpe Diem, Swaab Attorneys, Aston Martin, Farage, Industrie, Roses Only and others. If you missed out this year, make sure you get your tickets quickly for next year's Ball.

Thirdly, the annual NSW Young Lawyers State of the Profession address will be given by the Hon Justice R McColl AO, Justice of the NSW Court of Appeal and NSW Young Lawyers 2008 Patron, on 18 September 2008 at 6 pm. An invitation is to follow, so look out for it.

Finally, this year NSW Young Lawyers will proudly host the National Golden Gavel and Australian Young Lawyer Awards on behalf of the Law Council of Australia. The Gavel and Awards will commence at 7.30 am on Friday, 21 November 2008 at the Four Seasons Hotel. Further details and information on how you can purchase tickets will become available in due course.

About NSW Young Lawyers

If you are a law student, a solicitor or a barrister in either your first 5 years of practice, or under the age of 36 years, you are automatically a Member of NSW Young Lawyers. Although membership of NSW Young Lawyers is not contingent on membership of the Law Society of NSW, we could not do what we do without their help and support.

Being an active participant in NSW Young Lawyers brings important benefits to you, the profession and the community. In particular, involvement allows you to give something back, both to the profession and the community at large, and an opportunity for you to fulfil your duty to be socially responsible, to recognise the privileged position you are in and the fact that you have the ability to make a difference.

If you are interested in getting involved or would like to find out more about us, our upcoming events, Committee activities or projects, please feel free to explore the various links across our website. In addition, if you have any suggestions in relation to our website or about how NSW Young Lawyers can provide additional benefits or opportunities to its Members, please feel free to contact me by email at president@younglawyers.com.au.

Josh Knackstredt
President
New South Wales Young Lawyers
18 August 2008

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