Important: Application and Dues Statement
For the fiscal year beginning June 1, 2010 and ending May 31, 2011
Effective April 2010, Hinds County Bar Association has changed its name to the Capital Area Bar Association. The name was changed to better reflect the members of the bar served by our assiciation, which includes attorneys in Hinds, Rankin and Madison Counties, as well as the surrounding counties.
If you have previously been a member of the Association, but were not a member this past 2009-2010 year because you have changed locations to other counties, we want you to consider re-joining the Association. As an incentive to re-join, we are offering all attorneys who are in this category who re-join the Association a coupon for a FREE CLE/LUNCH on August 17, 2010. Please download the PDF for more information...
Passing the Gavel
Roy Campbell, incoming 2010-2011 CABA
President, presented the outgoing President's Plaque to Tom Alexander,
2009-2010 CABA President, at the Evening Honoring the Judiciary.
See more photos from other events here... 
President’s Corner | by Roy Campbell
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
--W. Edwards Deming
Following the recommendation of the Strategic Planning Committee and a unanimous vote at the April 20, 2010 membership meeting, the “Hinds County Bar Association” has become the “Capital Area Bar Association.”...
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| Capital Area Bar Association Calendar of Events | |
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Tuesday, August 17 |
Tuesday, October 19 Thursday, December 2 |
Evening Honoring the Judiciary Dinner
The Evening Honoring the Judiciary, co-sponsored by the Capital Area Bar Association and the Jackson Young Lawyers, was held Thursday, May 13, at the Old Capitol Inn with Fifth Circuit Judge Carl E. Stewart as speaker...
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The Kennedy Brothers, r.i.p.| by John Land McDavid
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts were the parents of nine children, four of whom were males. Their sons were Joseph Patrick, Jr. (Joe) born 1915; John Fitzgerald (Jack) born 1917; Robert Francis (Bobby) born 1925; and Edward Moore (Teddy) born 1932....
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Brew Baby Brew: Let's Take the Tea Party Mainstream
by Captain Equity
One of my all time favorite comedians was the late Rodney Dangerfield. His appearances with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show back in the late 1980s and early 90s were classics that are still as fresh today as they were back then. The bugged eyed comic would always start with, “I get no respect. No respect at all.” Then he would launch into ten minutes of frenzied, nonstop jokes of which he was usually the butt....
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On Computing | by Joel Howell
With thanks to Donna Payne and Law Technology News, here's an overview of some "unintended uses" of some new and old technology tools....
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Carlton W. Reeves, CABA Member, Nominated for Federal Trial Bench | byJohn Henegan
President Obama has nominated Carlton W. Reeves, Esq., who lives in Terry and practices in Jackson, as United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi to fill the vacancy created when United States District Judge William Barbour assumed senior status....
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Summer Programs Affected by Tough Economy | by Kate Margolis
It’s been hard not to notice the tough job market that prospective law graduates are facing these days. Debbie Foley, Director of Career and Student Services at Mississippi College School of Law, says that summer clerkship and entry level associate positions at law firms have been “cut back dramatically” in the past couple of years, and some firms have stopped interviewing altogether....
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Governor's Award: Watkins Playrground Project
Watkins Elementary was honred at this year's Mississippi Association of Partners in Education State Conference on April 8th. Watkins was presented the Governor's Award for the Watkins Playground Project. Photo, Left to Right: Dr. Lonnie Edwards, Superintendent; Claudia Henderson (Eaton); Christy Bridges (Clarion-Ledger); Doug Jennings (CABA); Debra Given (Sam's Club); John Poe (JA Dawson & Co); Dr. Michelle King (Assistant Superintendent/Past Principal Watkins Elementary); David Schommer (Project Leader Watkins Elementary); Amanda Johnston (Northwest Mutual); Cheryl Comans (President of the MAPE Board); Tyrone McDonald (Watkins PTA); Ronnie Musgrove; Dr. Lisa Andrus Johnson (Principal, Watkins Elementary); Stephanie Hopkins (Southern Farm Bureau, School Adopter); Beth Willis (Wal-Mart); Liz Brister (Entergy); Traci Maloney (Junior League of Jackson); Julie Skipper (Communnity Foundation of Greater Jackson); James Biddlecom (Sam's Club); Mike Brisson (Lowe's)
Reminder
The Capital Area Bar Association
June Membership Luncheon Meeting will be held
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 12:00
Speaker: Nina Tollison,
The Mississippi Bar President-Elect
The cost is $15. 00 for lunch.
Capital Club
19th Floor
Capital Towers Building
No reservation necessary
Newly Elected Officers and Board Members
Congratulations to our newly elected officers and directors for the HCBA 2010–2011 year.
David Maron - Secretary/Treasurer
Jennifer Hall - Director, Post 3
John Hall - Director, Post 4