If you have been searching for your own unique way to contribute to the Bar, consider signing up for one or two of the Bar’s 16 committees. Nearly all committees are filled by appointment of the president-elect, and terms are for one year. It’s your Bar, so lend your voice! |
ARLC Administrative and Regulatory Law Committee: Monitor legislation and recommend or review changes to the APA that affects the administrative law practice. Promote better relations between Bar members and hearing officers of government and regulatory agencies and the Administrative Law Court. CHIL Children’s Committee: Address issues related to children’s legal rights and juvenile justice. Coordinate with other children’s services groups to improve the way the legal system functions in relation to children. Develop CLE seminars and materials on issues affecting children and those who represent them, both as lawyers and GALs. CLEP Continuing Legal Education Publications Committee: Oversee the development and publication of CLE publications and software, and recruitment of authors. CLES Continuing Legal Education Seminars Committee: Oversee continuing legal education efforts through seminars and distance learning products. CONV Conventions Committee: Enhance CLE programming for the Bar Convention. Generate ideas for social and networking opportunities. Continue to improve the quality of South Carolina Bar Conventions and increase attendance. ELDER Elder Law Committee: Provide education to members of the Bar and the public on issues affecting the elderly and adults with disabilities. Monitor legislation and propose statutory changes. ETH Ethics Advisory Committee: Make a difference in helping to protect your fellow attorneys from potential ethical pitfalls and malpractice. The Ethics Committee receives ethics inquiries from members of the Bar in the form of fact patterns and discusses, drafts and produces the ethics opinions. INSU Insurance Programs for Lawyers Committee: Study and recommend insurance programs that the South Carolina Bar can make available to its members. Annually review proposed renewal for group medical plan and performance of insurance programs administrator.
INLC International Law Committee: Work with practitioners focusing efforts on the law as it relates to South Carolina's international business community, immigrants, maritime industry and foreign and offshore investors. Litigation, transactional and tax matters are addressed in quarterly meetings and in CLE programs. Support the USC School of Law's Journal of International Law and Business. LHL Lawyers Helping Lawyers Committee: This committee supports the Commission and Director in assisting lawyers and judges who are impaired by alcohol, drugs or depression. The program includes this committee of volunteers who will be trained in recognizing addiction and monitoring those in the program. LREC Law Related Education Committee: Assist with law related education programs, including middle and high school mock trials and other competitions, youth courts, LRE conferences and teacher workshops. Develop LRE materials for teachers and lawyers. Help select the LRE Lawyer of the Year, LRE Teacher of the Year and mock trial scholarship recipients. LSLC Law School Liaison Committee: Enhance communication and cooperation between law schools and the Bar. Provide law students with a perspective on Bar activities and determine how to increase practical training for students. PRAC Practice and Procedure Committee: Study and make recommendations regarding the rules and law pertaining to practice and procedure. Continue efforts regarding the improvement of the operation of the judicial system. PROF Professional Responsibility Committee: Become involved in the first step to getting a rule changed. The Professional Responsibility Committee formulates potential changes to the Rules of Professional Conduct and proposes them to the House of Delegates, which in turn proposes them to the South Carolina Supreme Court. UPLC Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee: Review allegations of unauthorized law practice. Promote legislation and court actions that enhance the protection of the parties by the prosecution of the unauthorized practice of law. |