The YLD Year in Review document summarizes the activities and accomplishments of the Virginia Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division (YLD) in 2018. Key focuses for the YLD included improving efficiency, developing best practices, facilitating continued leadership for graduating members, examining the budget, and increasing CLE programming. The YLD had a successful year, increasing income, reducing expenses, receiving national recognition for its projects, and setting goals to further engage members in 2019.

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The YLD Year in Review
Andrew B. Stockment
2018 YLD Chair
January 24, 2019

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Who we are
• VBA members who are either:
• Under the age of 37 or
• Licensed to practice for under three
years
• Focused on service to the bar and
service to the public

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Our Areas of Focus for 2018
• Efficiency and Best Practices
• Focusing on making each leadership transition within the YLD easier so new lawyers
can hit the ground running when stepping into new roles
• Improvements in collection and sharing of information
• Beginning the process of developing best practices and committee chair handbooks
for each of our committees, projects, and events
• Continued Leadership by YLD Graduates
• Facilitating continued leadership of YLD members who “graduate” from (age out of)
the YLD
• Budget
• Examining and expanding our sources of income and reducing expenses.
• Increasing value proposition of our meetings through additional CLE offerings

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Record Keeping
• Created a new YLD Post-Event Report Form on the VBA website
• Collecting event details and outcomes, such as:
• How the event was advertised
• Anticipated and actual attendance
• Number of non-YLD members who attended (and contact info)
• Anticipated and actual costs
• Names and details for event sponsors
• General feedback—what worked well, what didn’t, recommendations for the
future

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Best Practices and Project Chair Handbooks
• We will be using the additional information we collect to:
• Develop best practices and guidelines for YLD events, such as;
• Expense guidelines
• Advertising and sponsorship recommendations and strategies
• Committee Chair Handbooks
• We have asked each of our project chairs, who serve 2-year terms, to begin
creating Committee Chair Handbooks to make it easier for future project chairs
to take over and build upon the success of our projects and committees

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Continued Leadership by YLD Graduates
• When YLD members “graduate” from (age out of) the YLD, we want to
facilitate their continued active involvement and leadership within the
VBA
• Instituted a YLD “graduation” questionnaire to identify the experience
and areas of interest of graduating YLD members
• YLD Chair will then make recommendations to the VBA President and the
Executive Committee to identify opportunities for leadership appointments
• Board of Governors approved recommended bylaw amendment for VBA
Sections to allow the Sections to appoint a recent YLD graduate to the
Section Council based upon the recommendation of the YLD Chair
• Expanded the number of (non-voting) YLD Representatives to the VBA
sections and committees from one to two

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Budget
• Examining and expanding our sources of income, reducing expenses, and
increasing value
• Income
• Thanks to our Sponsorship Committee, we increased our income by $6,751 over last
year
• In 2019, the Sponsorship Committee will also be expanding its work to including
identifying and applying for grants as an additional source of income for the YLD’s
projects
• Reducing Expenses
• We focused on reducing our expenses,
• Cut the costs of our National Moot Court program by $6,934
• Increasing Value
• Increasing value proposition of our meetings through additional CLE offerings.
• New record of 7 hours of CLE programming at our meetings in 2018.

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Collaboration and New Legislative Committee
Collaboration with
VSB Young Lawyers Conference
• We invited the senior leadership of the
Virginia State Bar Young Lawyers
Conference to meet with our YLD
Executive Board at our Fall Meeting and
began the process of exploring
opportunities to collaborate on various
projects, including lawyer wellness.
New Legislative Committee
• We have created a new YLD Legislative
Committee led by Craig Hoovler, Chair
and Ann Kossachev, Chair-Elect.
• Identify opportunities for young lawyers
to participate in advancing the VBA’s
legislative agenda
• Solicit proposed bills from YLD
members, present proposed bills to the
YLD Executive Board for approval, and
work with the YLD Chair to present the
proposed bills annually to the Board of
Governors during VBA Legislative Day

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Spring Meeting
The Sanderling Resort, Duck, NC - April 27-28, 2018

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YLD Spring Meeting Recap
• Great weather and excellent attendance
• Nearly 60 young lawyers, spouses, and guests, plus 13 children
• Several first-time attendees and young lawyers who were not yet VBA members (but
who have since joined!).
• We set a Spring Meeting record with three CLE programs:
• “A Close Look at Constitutional Rights and Responsibilities in 2018” by Sarah E.
Turberville (Director of Justice Programs at The Constitution Project)
• “Ethics Update 2018: Focus on Ethical Representation” by Scott Prince (VSB
Assistant Bar Counsel)
• “What Family Lawyers Want Other Lawyers to Know” by Seth Ragosta (Lenhart
Pettit), former YLD Executive Board member
• Sun, sand, and s’mores around the fire pit.

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Fall Meeting
The VBA on Main, Richmond, VA – October 19-20, 2018

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YLD Fall Meeting Recap
• YLD Executive Board met with VSB YLC Executive Committee to explore
opportunities for collaboration
• Great CLE programs:
• “How to Start Your Own Law Firm” by Nupur Bal (Defazio Bal PC) and Steven Gould
(Byrnes Gould)—both of whom started their own law firm while serving as YLD Chair
• “Upcoming Legal Challenges in Data Privacy & Cybersecurity” by Jay Sinha (Verizon
Enterprise Solutions)
• Richmond canal tour and bar hop

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ABA YLD Awards of Achievement
• Each year, the American Bar Association Young
Lawyer’s Division holds an annual Awards of
Achievement Program, which allows state and
local young lawyer organizations across the
country to submit their best projects for
evaluation and recognition.
• The Awards of Achievement Program is
designed to encourage project development and
provide national recognition of the time, effort,
and skills expended by young lawyer
organizations in implementing public service and
bar service projects in their communities.

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VBA YLD Receives National Accolades
• This past year, the VBA Young Lawyer’s Division made
a remarkable showing at the 2018 American Bar
Association’s Annual Meeting.
• We won awards in ALL four categories in which we
submitted an application:
• Diversity (Diversity in the Legal Profession Symposium at
the University of Richmond School of Law),
• Service to the Public (2017 Lt. Gov. Debate),
• Newsletter (Opening Statement), and
• Comprehensive—marking the 11th consecutive year that the VBA YLD received an award in the comprehensive
category.
• We were also the only bar association in the entire country to receive this year’s Outstanding Public
Service Award from the American Bar Endowment.

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YLD Goals for 2019 and Beyond
INCREASING
REVENUE AND
REDUCING
EXPENSES
INCREASING
MEMBERSHIP
AND MEMBER
ENGAGEMENT
FURTHER
DEVELOPING
RELATIONSHIP
WITH VSB
YOUNG
LAWYERS
CONFERENCE
AND EXPLORING
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR
COLLABORATION
WORK WITH
BOARD OF
GOVERNORS ON
THE VBA’S NEXT
STRATEGIC PLAN
CONTINUE
FOCUS ON
ENGAGING WITH
LAW STUDENTS
LAWYER
WELLNESS

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2019 YLD Leadership
• Jennifer L. Ligon (Willams Mullen) - Chair
• Madelaine A. Kramer (Sands Anderson PC) - Chair-Elect
• Franklin R. Cragle, III (Hirschler Fleischer) - Secretary/Treasurer
• Andrew B. Stockment (Lenhart Pettit) - Immediate Past Chair
• New Executive Board members (in no particular order):
• R. Patrick Bolling (Woods Rogers)
• Craig A. Hoovler (Miles & Stockbridge PC)
• Emily Gomes (Hogan Lovells US LLP)
• Graham K. Bryant (Law Clerk, Supreme Court of Virginia)

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2019 YLD Leadership
• Returning Executive Board members (in no particular order):
• Joseph A. Figueroa (Watt Tieder)
• Kristen R. Jurjevich (Pender & Coward, P.C.)
• William D. Prince, IV (ThompsonMcMullan, P.C.)
• Michael W. Stark (McGuireWoods LLP)
• Daniel R. Sullivan (Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore)

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Questions?
Andrew B. Stockment
Lenhart Pettit
530 East Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
ABS@LPLAW.COM