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April 15-16, 2011
The West Virginia State Bar Annual Meeting - Charleston, WV 
 
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The video tribute to courthouses, "A Living Monument - West Virginia's Historic Courthouses," which was to take place Jan. 11 had to be postponed due to post production technical issues for the producer.  After checking with WV PBS and their broadcast schedule, we will reschedule the premiere event. Thank you for the many interested responses we received and we look forward to seeing you at a later date.  

Patti Hamilton

West Virginia Association of Counties 

BOONE AND LINCOLN COUNTIES - State Bar President Tish Chafin and Executive Director Anita Casey are pleased to announce they will be visiting your Courthouses on JANUARY 11, 2011.  They invite you to join them for a short, conversational meeting.  The schedule is:

 9:00 am - Boone County (Courtroom)
11:00 am - Lincoln County (Courtroom)

UPCOMING FASTCASE WEBINARS -

 

Fastcase Research Tips (In Depth)

Wed, Jan 12, 2011 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

 

Case Law Nuts & Bolts (Overview)

Thu, Jan 20, 2011 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

WOOD, WIRT, PLEASANTS AND JACKSON COUNTIES - State Bar President Tish Chafin and Executive Director Anita Casey will be visiting your Courthouses on January 18, 2011.  They invite you to join them for a short, conversational meeting.  Note that the prior schedule in the Bar Blast was in error.  The correct schedule is:

  9:30 am -  Wood County (Law Library)
11:30 am -  Wirt County (Circuit Clerk's Office) 

  1:30  pm -   Pleasants County (Courtroom)

   4:00 pm -  Jackson County (Circuit or Magistrate Courtroom)

 

KANAWHA, PUTNAM AND MASON COUNTIES - On January 19, 2011, State Bar President Tish Chafin and Executive Director Anita Casey will be visiting your County.  Please come join them for a conversational meeting to discuss matters of interest to members of the Bar.  The schedule is:

   9:00 am - Kanawha County (5th Floor of Judicial Annex- Visiting Judge's Courtroom) 

 11:00 pm - Putnam County (Courtroom in the original/old Courthouse)

   2:00 pm - Mason County (2nd Floor of Courthouse - Exact location TBD)

MERCER COUNTY - At the invitation of the Mercer County Bar and the Judges of the 9th Judicial Circuit, State Bar President Tish Chafin and Executive Director Anita Casey will be visiting Mercer County on January 26, 2011The Mercer County Bar meeting will commence at 11:30 at the Sugar Shak in Princeton.  If you are interested in joining the Bar for lunch, please contact Randall Roahrig at rwrlawoffice@citlink.net or 304-425-2116.  After lunch, photos will be taken at the Courthouse to share on the Bar Blast and on The State Bar's website.    

RATE OF INTEREST ON JUDGMENTS AND DECREES FOR THE YEAR 2011 - The rate of interest for the year 2011, for judgments and decrees entered on or after January 1, 2011, is set at 7.00%. Click here to review the Administrative Order of the Supreme Court of Appeals.

CASEMAKER - Casemaker is no-longer accessible through the WV Bar website or by using the password "westva".    Fastcase replaced Casemaker as the legal research program in July 2010 and is only accessible through the member login at http://wvbar.org.   If you have any question please contact Don Ryan at ryand@wvbar.org or by calling 304.558.8920.

LITIGATION SEMINAR 2011 - WVCLE, sponsored by The West Virginia State Bar and the WVU College of Law, will present Litigation 2011 on February 25-26, 2011, at Canaan Valley Resort in Davis, West Virginia.  This conference features experts addressing issues in Litigation.  Speakers include Mark Atkinson, Pamela Tarr, Jeffrey A. Holmstrand, Albert Sebok, Bernard Vallejos, Geoffrey C. Brown, Professor Thomas Cady, The Honorable Alan D. Moats, Andrew S. Graham, and Jeffrey D. Van Volkenburg.  Litigation 2011 is worth 10.4 WV MCLE credits, including 2.2 Ethics credits.   If you would like to register for this seminar or for more information, please CLICK HERE or call (304) 293-7255 for more information.