SBNM eNews: ATJ Fund Grant Commission Seeks Proposals and more

February 22, 2019

Call for CLE Proposals

The New Mexico State Bar Foundation Center for Legal Education invites all State Bar members; sections, divisions and committees; and voluntary bar members to submit proposals for CLE programs that could be presented at the State Bar Annual Meeting or at other times during the year. We are looking for hot topics in your areas of law. This year’s annual meeting will be held Aug. 1-3 at Hotel Albuquerque in Old Town, Albuquerque. Breakout sessions will be one hour in length and 12 spots are available.

Complete and submit this form with a hot topic program in your area of law by COB March 29.

Request for Proposals

The State Bar of New Mexico Access to Justice Fund Grant Commission is pleased to announce that the 2019-20 grant process begins February 19, 2019. Applications are due no later than April 19, 2019 at noon. The Grant Commission shall be responsible for reviewing the applications and awarding grants to civil legal service organizations consistent with the current State Plan for the Provision of Civil Legal Services to Low Income New Mexicans. For more information on the application process, visit www.nmbar.org/atjfundgrant .

Important Announcements and Deadlines

For details about these deadlines and announcements, click here .

• Judicial Standards Commission Amendments Procedural Rules

• Eighth Judicial District Court Announcement of Vacancy

Upcoming Events

For details about the events listed below, visit the State Bar's Event Calendar .

• March 4: Solo and Small Firm Section: SSF Roundtable in Albuquerque

• March 11: Young Lawyers Division: Volunteers Needed for Veterans Civil Legal Clinic

• March 19: Solo and Small Firm Section:

Legislative Session Overview with Senator Daniel Ivey-Soto

• March 20-23: 10th Annual Corporate Counsel Conference & 24th Annual Uvaldo Herrera Moot Court Competition

• March 29: 2019 Justice Mary Walters Awards Dinner

• March 29: UNM Tribal Law Journal 20th Anniversary Symposium

• April 6: NMJLAP Committee Meeting

• April 25: ADR Superpower Skills Workshop

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• Clerk's Certificates

• Recent Rule Making Activity

• Court of Appeals Opinions List

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8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., March 1

State Bar Center (6.0 G, 1.0 EP)

Co-sponsor: Bankruptcy Law Section

Click here to register

The seminar focuses on developments in case law on bankruptcy issues in 2018, both nationally and locally, with special

emphasis on decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit B.A.P. and U.S. Bankruptcy

Court for the District of New Mexico. Also included are presentations by the Bankruptcy Judges for the District of New

Mexico, representatives of the Office of the U.S. Trustee for the District of New Mexico, the Clerk of Court, and an ethics or

professionalism presentation.

To browse the Center for Legal Education's full CLE offerings, click here

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