The 2008 Professional Legal Excellence Awards will be presented at the 16th Annual Legal Excellence Awards Reception in Annapolis on Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 6:00 p.m. at the Miller Senate Building. More information and the ticket request form
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The Maryland Bar Foundation is a non-profit charitable
corporation organized in 1965, with the objective of obtaining
gifts and contributions to be used for the following purposes: |
- To foster and maintain the honor and integrity of the profession
of the law;
- To improve and to facilitate the administration of justice;
- To promote the study of the law and research therein, the
diffusion of knowledge thereof, and the continuing education
of lawyers.
The Foundation has carried out these purposes by making grants
to organizations that work within Maryland to accomplish the goals
of the Foundation.
MARYLAND BAR FOUNDATION FELLOWS
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED
Your financial support is vital to the foundation. As a professional
and public-minded citizen, you are presented with a unique opportunity
to contribute to and encourage an organization designed to serve
the highest aims of the legal profession. And each time the Bar
Foundation puts the justice system to work in the public interest, it
benefits you -- building good will for you and your
profession within the State of Maryland and reflecting a real record
of accomplishment in the eyes of the public.
ENDOWMENT FUND
The Maryland Bar Foundation Endowment Fund was established to
assure long term funding for public and professional service projects.
Although gifts of any size are gratefully accepted, those of $500
or more may be designated by the donor to become part of the Endowment
Fund. The earnings of the Fund will be used to further the goals
of the Foundation.
MEMORIALS
Lawyers and their families are encouraged to remember the Foundation
or its Endowment Fund for memorial giving through appropriate provision
in their wills.
HOW WILL I BENEFIT?
1.) You will have the satisfaction of knowing that your gift is
being used in support of projects that enhance the legal profession
and improve the administration of justice within the State of Maryland.
2.) The Rules of Professional Conduct points out the lawyer's
obligation to improve the legal system. Since many lawyers cannot
participate in worthwhile programs to the degree they would like
to because of constraints placed upon their time, supporting the
work of the Maryland Bar Foundation is one of the most meaningful
ways to meet this obligation.
3.) You will be contributing to the only foundation that works
solely within the State of Maryland that is devoted to improving
the administration of justice and to improving the public's knowledge
of the law.
ACTIVITIES AND GRANTS
The Bar Foundation has funded a number of projects designed to
improve delivery of legal services and the administration of justice
in Maryland. Recent grants have helped to support Law Links, a
joint program through the MSBA and several local bar associations
that oversees summer legal internships for at-risk high school
students.
Assistance was also provided to the Citizenship Law-Related Education
Program for its Baltimore City Teen Court Committee which established
a Teen Court in Baltimore City to provide peer-driven alternative
sentencing for delinquent teens.
Within the past year a grant was also made to the MSBA's Select
Committee on Gender Equality for its ten-year retrospective examination
of the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the
Maryland Special Joint Committee Report on Gender Bias in the Courts,
issued in 1989. These are but a few of the contributions made by
the Bar Foundation in furtherance of its goals. Click
here for a Grant Application.
MEMBERSHIP AS A BAR FOUNDATION FELLOW
Membership in the Fellows is, first, recognition of your “outstanding
dedication and contribution to maintaining the honor and integrity
of the legal profession, the improvement and facilitation of the
administration of justice, the work of the organized Bar of Maryland
and civic leadership.” Membership as a regular
Fellow is limited to not more than 2.5% of MSBA membership. Invitations
are extended only after nomination by a current Fellow and endorsement
by the Board of Directors of the Foundation.
Questions regarding the Maryland Bar Foundation can be directed
to Nicole
Earl
2008-2009 Board of Directors.
Tracey E. Skinner, President
Charles Mike Preston, Vice-President
Hon Karen Murphy Jensen, Secretary-Treasurer
Anne Albright
Alison L. Asti
Michael J. Baxter
Thomas C. Cardaro
Hon. J. Michael Conroy, Jr.
Edward J. Gilliss
Robert T. Gonzales
Cornelius Helfrich
Katherine Kelly Howard
Harry S. Johnson
Christopher Kehoe
Jerald B. Lurie
Hon. William D. Missouri
E. Josephine Nippard
James P. Nolan
Nicole Earl, Director of Administration
The Foundation Fellows
Christopher Kehoe, Chair
Hon. Lenore Gelfman, Vice-Chair
Karen Murphy-Jensen, Secretary-Treasurer
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