CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR GOVERNING BOARD

The election of the 2009 governing board of the New Lawyers Section will occur in December of 2008. The nominating committee has been working for a little while to secure nominations for the upcoming election, and, now, the nominating committee invites nominations from you.

This year, there are as many as nine open positions. They are:

Chair-elect
Secretary
Treasurer
Director (at least three, but no more than nine, must be elected).

As of Monday, the nominations were:

Chair-elect
Frank Bishop, Pierce Atwood, Portland
Secretary
No one has been nominated
Treasurer
Mark Beaumont, Eaton Peabody, Bangor
Director
Justin Weiss, Digital Policy Group, York
Hanna Sanders, Legal Services for the Elderly, Scarborough
Felicity Soles, International Association of Privacy Professionals, York
Jason Dionne, Isaacson & Raymond, Lewiston
Jason Barrett, Eaton Peabody, Ellsworth
Stacey Stitham, Brann & Isaacson, Lewiston

As you can see, there are open positions and there are, presently, uncontested positions. If you wish to nominate somebody, including yourself, to any of the open positions, the deadline to do so is November 15, 2008. There are two possible ways to nominate someone: 1) recommend them to the nominating committee which will then consider adding them to the slate of candidates, or 2) secure the recommendation of three members of the New Lawyers Section in which case the nominating committee must add them to the slate of candidates.
The nominating committee is: Scott Quigley, Shane Wright, Dennis Carrillo, Mark Beaumont, Barbara Slote, Frank Bishop and Hanna Sanders. We should all be in the bar directory. If you wish to contact the nominating committee by email, please write to sq@laskofflaw.com.