American Counsel Association

Enhancing Practice Standards While Delivering Gold Standard Networking Opportunities

ACA Mid-Year Meeting
Louisville, Kentucky
January 31-February 5, 2024

Registration is now open and you are invited to attend the following exciting ACA events:

Welcome Reception ǀ Patrick O’Shea’s  – Champion’s Room

Board Meeting & Annual Meeting ǀ Stoll, Keenon, Ogden PLLC

Louisville Slugger Museum  ǀ Mussel & Burger Bar

Hell or High Water – Speakeasy “Under Whiskey Row”

Although many of these exciting events are complimentary, you must register so that we have an accurate head-count.  Please REGISTER here.  

An ITINERARY is available for additional information here. 

Click here for a list of additional restaurants, museums, and tours in and around Lousiville that you may want to review when planning your trip.

A major role of the Association is awarding one or more scholarships to second year law students each year. The winners must demonstrate aptitude, achievement, public service, financial need, and commitment to the study of law and the legal profession. The students are chosen from law schools on a rotation of geographical areas around the United States. The scholarships, all of which the Association attempts to maintain at least $5,000, are then presented to the winners at the Annual Meeting in August.

Welcome Message from
President, Andrew M. Schpak

American Counsel Association Members:

It is the start of another ACA year.  First, let me thank Joy Phillips for her hard work and impressive success over the past year.  During her time as President, we grew our membership, put together successful and well-received events and programming, and formalized our internal operations. She did an amazing job, and I’m thankful to have had the opportunity to work with her and learn from her.  It will be hard to top the activities she planned for our meetings in February in Louisville, Kentucky and those last month in Chicago.

Much of the work of ACA is done through committees, so we would appreciate you completing the Committee Preference Form which is available here and returning it by September 24th so we can complete committee assignments.  This would also be a good time to review & update your profile on the ACA website under “Manage Your Membership”.

Your Officers and Board look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meetings, which will take place when the ABA meets in Phoenix, Arizona on January 29 – February 3, 2025, and Toronto, Canada on August 6-12, 2025.

We would also like to take this opportunity to encourage you to consider contributing to the Pamela Bresnahan Scholarship this year.  We have raised $2,900 so far and hope to raise an additional $2,100 to award the scholarship at the $5,000 level at the Annual Scholarship Dinner in Toronto on August 11, 2025.

In the meantime, please let us know how we can better serve you, our ACA Members.  I appreciate the opportunity to serve as your President for 2024-2025 and look forwarding to talking to you and seeing you soon.

Sincerely,

Andrew M. Schpak

President

aschpak@barran.com

(503) 276-2156                                               

 

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