April 30, 2008
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Desert Bar Association Colleague:
Greetings, and welcome to your new DBA Website!
The launch of this new website is the culmination of the efforts by a great group of people. We are fortunate at the Desert Bar Association to have a group of trustees who are extremely dedicated and thoughtful and ever mindful of making the greatest use of our available resources. It has been widely believed among many members that it was time to modernize our site. We thank the entire Board, and in particular Mr. David Mulé and Ms. Julie Rosser, who have diligently worked with our website contractor to deliver this important benefit.
Now, your new website is here, and we expect it to continue to evolve and improve. This is your Desert Bar Association, and it is our Desert Bar. We thus seek to make your new website a place for bulletins, news, events, articles, and your much desired input on legal practice in the Coachella Valley. Your suggestions regarding the site will be welcome.
Our future possibilities as a Bar Association are very exciting. It is the hope of this President that we may also evolve into a more real presence, political and professional, within the California Bar, itself. Few will doubt that we are a good bar association, with a long history and tradition of doing a lot of beneficial things for our local legal community, with the help of just about everyone in that legal community. We are, nevertheless, a much smaller organization than our neighboring bar associations to the north, south and west of us. Thus, we have to think creatively to make our voice heard. If we are to address the real and needs of our practices and our community’s need for justice at all levels, our voice must be heard.
The tremendous surge in demand for court services at all levels within the Inland and Desert Empires in recent years has presented our legal community with unique challenges faced by no other legal community in the entire state of California. It is in our collective interest, from the community of private practitioners to the judiciary and even on to the public agencies such as the District Attorney’s Office and the Public Defender’s Office, to see that the needs of our legal community and community at large are not bypassed for want of a strong voice. We need to build a stronger Desert Bar Association that will present that voice.
A recent effort in that regard was expressed in an April 2008 Resolution of the Board and correspondence to the California Senate Budget Committee, seeking the fullest possible funding for a full compliment of judicial officers within the Desert Judicial District. A copy of the letter and associated resolution is posted as part of this message.
. Letter to California State Budget Committee
. April 2008 Resolution of the Board of Trustees
We continue to hope for events tailored to individual subsections such as the Family Law Bar, and the Probate Section. We also look forward to the development of new subsections and coordination with such organizations as the American Inns of Court.
In the coming years, our Desert Bar Association will continue to evolve as an organization that delivers events and programs relevant to all aspects of the practice of law. The Desert Bar Association will continue to provide these programs in an environment that encourages collegiality and true friendship among its members. This has been our standard for years, and one we are happy to continue.
Very best personal regards,
Peter Bochnewich
President, Desert Bar Association
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