May 30, 2023
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FINAL NOTICE
TO UPDATE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION


The State Bar will be mailing orange postcard reminders regarding membership reporting and fees in June for the July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024 fiscal year. Please be sure to log into the membership portal and verify or update your contact information (Bylaw 2.02 (b))
by JUNE 1.

Information that you will need to verify or update include:
  1. Name of Employer (If sole practitioner, enter the sole practitioner’s name)
  2. Address of Principal Place of Business
  3. Telephone and Fax Numbers
  4. Email Address

PUBLIC NOTICE FOR REAPPOINTMENT
OF INCUMBENT MAGISTRATE JUDGE ABOULHOSN
 
The current term of office of United States Magistrate Judge Omar J. Aboulhosn, at Bluefield, West Virginia, is due to expire on December 31, 2023. The United States District Court is required by law to establish a panel of citizens to consider the reappointment of the magistrate judge to a new eight-year term.

The duties of a magistrate judge in this district include the following: (1) conducting most preliminary proceedings in criminal cases; (2) trial and disposition of misdemeanor cases; (3) conducting various pretrial matters and evidentiary proceedings on referral from the judges of the district court; and (4) conducting trial and disposition of civil cases upon consent of the litigants.

Comments are invited from members of the bar and the public as to whether the incumbent magistrate judge should be recommended by the panel for reappointment by the Court and should be placed in an envelope marked “CONFIDENTIAL” and directed to Rory L. Perry II, Clerk of Court, U.S. District Court, 300 Virginia Street East, P.O. Box 2546, Charleston WV 25329. Comments must be received by July 28, 2023.
CLE
CLE Rule Spotlight
Important CLE Reporting Reminders for 2022-2024 Reporting Period 

Administrative Rule 6.05(c) states that “[n]o more than half of the total required mandatory continuing legal education requirements may be satisfied by pre-recorded presentations that do not offer an interactive component.”  Please note that this limitation has NOT been waived for the 2022-2024 reporting period.  The previous waiver of this limitation only applied to the 2020-2022 reporting period. Attorneys must achieve half of the total required CLE credits by a means other than pre-recorded presentations for the 2022-2024 reporting period.
Events
June 8-9, 2023
Public Defender Services
2023 Indigent Defense Annual Conference

Host: WV Public Defender Services
CLE: 12 credits, including 1 in ethics
Location: Charleston Marriott Town Center
Cost: See registration in brochure

Contact Pamela Clark at Pam.R.Clark@wv.gov for questions

June 9, 2023
Mountain State Bar Association
Annual CLE Seminar

Host: Mountain State Bar Association
CLE: 6 credits, including 2 in ethics & elimination of bias
Location: Bridgeport Conference Center, Bridgeport, WV
Cost: See registration in brochure