Dear AAJ Members:

The New Lawyers Division is currently promoting a document drive through June 30, 2007. Our goal this year is 125 documents! We are striving to beat last year’s total of just over a hundred.

All of us at one time or another has asked another attorney to share a copy of a Complaint to use as an example, or have had a case where we needed a kick-start on discovery request ideas. This Library is critical to the NLD. And more so, donating documents is one of the methods a member of the Board of Governors can comply with yearly BOG Requirements.

The Document Library is one of the greatest assets the NLD offers AAJ New Lawyers. Administered by the AAJ Exchange, it is full of pleadings, discovery requests, briefs, motions, deposition outlines, etc – and it is FREE OF CHARGE!! These documents are available online and can be accessed through the AAJ NLD home page or the AAJ Exchange. Over the past few years, we have obtained over 500 documents from almost every state. It is one of the most practical benefits AAJ NLD members receive with their membership – and, have I mentioned, it’s FREE!!

All of these documents come from our own membership. Therefore, what we are looking for is AAJ members and NLD Board of Governors to select 5 documents that they have generated and send them to our Document Library Committee for cataloging and uploading on our website. All it takes is a moment to e-mail – that is all that is required of you! It is that easy. To donate documents to the NLD Document Library you can email your submissions to me at obrady@kreindler.com or if you have any questions, please call Whitney Larman, AAJ staff liaison, at 800-424-2725, ext. 540, or email her at: whitney.larman@justice.org.

As always, thanks so much for your work on behalf of AAJ. We look forward to receiving your documents and making them available to all NLD members.

Sincerely,

Orla M. Brady
NLD Board of Governors
NLD Chair, Document Library