Message from the President

	Daniel L. Webster, Esquire Fayette County Bar Association 2010 President

On May 1, 1958, twelve (12) Fayette County Lawyers founded the Fayette County Bar Association as a non-profit corporation, the purposes of which included advancing the continuing legal education of its members, promoting the administration of justice for the public good, and encouraging cordial, social interaction among the members of the legal profession.  

Over fifty-one (51) years later, the goals of the Association remain the same, and the realization of our purposes continues to motivate the officers and directors of the Fayette County Bar Association in the year 2010.  

I am pleased to announce that at the January, 2010 meeting of the Board of Directors, Marianne Miele, Esquire, was formally retained as the first Executive Director of the Fayette County Bar Association, and with this appointment, we are confident that our effectiveness and efficiencies as an organization will be significantly impacted.  Please warmly welcome Marianne to her new position, and forward to her any suggestions that you may have to advance our organization.  

With guidance provided by the Web-Site Development Committee, its chairperson, Marianne Miele, Esquire, and the expert advice of member, Michelle Dietz, Esquire, the Fayette County Web-Site is now a reality, which will assist our membership in various ways, but most importantly will achieve our continuing legal education goal by providing access to all judicial opinions issued by the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.  

In addition, through the efforts of our Executive Director and the Chairman of the Professional Education Committee, James E. Higinbotham, Jr., the Fayette County Bar Association will sponsor over twenty-one (21) simulcast seminars at the Penn State University Fayette Campus during the time period of January 1, 2010 through August 1, 2010, and notices of each seminar will now be available to the membership on our website.  Thanks to the Professional Education Committee, our membership will now be able to fulfill all of their continuing legal education requirements here at home in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.  

In addition, I wish to express gratitude to the entire Civil Rules Committee, its Chairman, William M. Radcliffe, Esquire, and especially to President Judge Gerald R. Solomon for their time, effort and hard work in revising portions of our local Rules of Civil Procedure which will hopefully promote efficiencies in our civil system.  

The final goal of the founding fathers of our Fayette County Bar Association was to uphold the honor of the legal profession, and I trust that all of us will recommit ourselves individually and as an association, to upholding the honor of our profession in the year 2010.