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Y O U N G L A W Y E R S J O U R N A L

member survey to better understand what the YLS can do for you and your practice. Your answers have guided the steps we will be taking this year and the changes we will be making together. One of those changes will be a complete restructuring of the director position on the YLS Executive Council. Directors will no longer be responsible for overseeing committees; rather, their primary mis- sion will be to bring you to the world and the world to you. For example, our new diversity organization outreach directors will collaborate with and organize joint events and programs with diverse affinity bar groups. Our professional organiza- tion directors will concentrate similar efforts toward organizing joint events and programs with young professionals in other industries. And our new law school outreach directors will work to recruit our newest members so that we can ensure the next generation of YLS-ers is as strong and active as all of you. We will also be retiring a number of older programs to make way for some new ones. This effort will include new substan- tive committees, new employment connec- tion services, and new social opportunities. It will also include a new CBA BoardMen- toring Program with the CBA’s officers, so that our most active members can match with their “Big Bar” counterparts and learn how to navigate the waters of associational governance from those who have success- fully sailed the course. The YLS will also host a new judicial symposium designed to allow our young attorneys to interact with and learn from our judiciary. I am a firm believer that one of the greatest services the CBA provides is being a gathering place for practitioners and judges to get to know each other out- side of the courtroom. I hope to expand that opportunity for you—with your help. In addition, the YLS plans to launch a new podcast named “@thebar,” in which

CBA YOUNG LAWYERS SECTION Chair Jonathan B. Amarilio Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

First Vice-Chair Brandon E. Peck Peck Ritchey LLC Second Vice-Chair Octavio Duran Hart & David LLP

Interest in Your Future: Making the YLS Work for You By Jonathan B. Amarilio YLS Chair F orty-six years ago a small group of young lawyers gathered to form the CBA’s Young Lawyers Section. From that humble beginning, the YLS has grown into the country’s most decorated young lawyer organization. We offer and engage in countless charitable works, social awareness campaigns, educational programs, and professional development opportunities for our members. We have thrived together. We are unrivaled because of the countless hours of work you and our predecessors have poured into this organi- zation and, thereby, into each other. It is a legacy we should be proud of and protect. Being the Chair is a responsibility I do not take lightly. And so this year will be about what we can accomplish together for the YLS and for each other. This year will be about making the YLS as useful, immediate, and relevant to you as possible. In other words, this year will be about maximizing your return on investment and, in so doing, ensuring the YLS’s future. To that end, we recently completed a

Member Service Manager Jeffrey Moskowitz J. Moskowitz Law LLC Public Service Manager Carl Newman City of Chicago Department of Law Project Officer Emily Roschek American Bar Association Project Officer Svetlana Gitman Bruce Farrel Dorn & Associates Secretary/Treasurer Alexis Crawford Douglas K&L Gates LLP YLS Journal Co-Editors in Chief Natalie C. Chan Sidley Austin LLP

Nicholas D. Standiford Schain, Banks, Kenny & Schwartz, Ltd. Assistant Editor Daniel J. Berkowitz Aronberg & Goldgehn

YLS Director Jennifer Byrne

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