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• Award for Outstanding Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion from the PBA Diversity Team to a PBA entity for supporting the PBA Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Plan. Get more information, including the online nomination form, in the call for nominations. Nomination deadline: March 8.
• Solo and Small Firm Award: Get more information, including nomination form. Nomination deadline: March 9.
  
• Christianson Award: Presented by the Public Utility Law Section. Get more information. Nomination deadline: March 23.
  
• James S. Bowman Award: Presented by the Administrative Law Section. Get more information, including the online nomination form. Nomination deadline: March 26.
• 2018 Clarity Award: Presented by the Plain English Committee. Download the nomination form. Nomination deadline: March 29.
• David M. Rosenblum GLBT Public Policy Award: Presented by the GLBT Rights Committee. Get more information, including nomination form. Nomination deadline: March 31.
• Louis J. Goffman Awards for Outstanding Pro Bono Service: Given by the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation (PBF); get more information on the PBF website. Nomination deadline: April 2.
• Excellence in Elder Law Award: presented by the Elder Law Section. Download the nomination form. Nomination deadline: May 1.
  

Awards and Scholarships for Law Students and New Lawyers

• $10,000 Stipend for Summer 2018 Internship in Environmental, Energy Law: The Environmental and Energy Law Section is awarding a $10,000 stipend to support a pro bono summer internship in the field of environmental and/or energy law. Read more about the award and the application process. Application deadline: April 2.
• IP Law Section Law Student Writing Contest: The Intellectual Property Law Section is offering $500 to the law-student winner of the section's 2018 writing contest. The winning entry will be published in the section newsletter and on the section page of the PBA website. Get more information, including a link to the contest guidelines. Entry deadline: April 6.
• The Patti Rose Scheimer Bednarik Memorial Scholarship, also awarded by the PBF, is available to a law student or lawyer in practice for fewer than three years who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to animal law/animal welfare. Get more information on the PBF website. Application deadline: July 1.

Meetings and Events
For more on these and other PBA gatherings, in some cases including online registration, go to the event date via the EVENTS CALENDAR link at upper right.

• Public Utility Law Section Meet and Greet Reception with PUC Commissioner Norman J. Kennard, Harrisburg, March 14. Get more information and register online.
• Environmental & Energy Law Section Global Climate Change Program and Reception: University Park, March 20. Get more information and register online.
• A PCHR Playbook: The X’s and O’s of Practice Before the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, co-sponsored by the Administrative Law Section and the Labor and Employment Law Section: Philadelphia, March 22. Get more information and register online.
• Commission on Women in the Profession Spring Conference: Philadelphia, and simulcast in Allentown, Erie, Mechanicsburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton, March 22. Get more information and register online.
• PBA Statewide High School Mock Trial Championship: Harrisburg, March 23-24. Get more information.
• Avoiding Legal Malpractice Seminars: Get the current list and instructions for registering online for seminars beginning April 3.
  
• Administrative Law Section Commonwealth Court Practicum: Harrisburg, April 9. Get more information and register online.
• Civil Litigation Section Retreat, Skytop, April 13-15. Download the meeting brochure and registration form.
• Peace Institute, presented by the Collaborative Law Committee: Philadelphia, May 3-5. Download the event brochure.

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Publications Online
Click here for the current, public e-dition of The Pennsylvania Lawyer magazine. Click on the following for recent PBA publications available for a limited time to nonmembers, illustrating the benefits of membership in the PBA and its committees, sections and other groups: Administrative Law Section, Civil Litigation Section, Commission on Women in the Profession, Elder Law Section, GLBT Rights Committee, Intellectual Property Section, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section and Solo and Small Firm Section. Also available: The latest issue of "The County Line" newsletter.

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