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FDCC Pillars
Marisa Trasatti
Big THANK YOU to the Membership Recruitment Committee (“MRC”),
the Board, the State Representatives, and substantive committee chairs for catapulting us to 202 nominations by March 2022! This team is focused on recruiting talented and diverse members
individuals, partnerships, corporations or associations in the defense of civil litigation
◆ Be of high professional standing and good moral character
◆ See below the membership dues:
• Initiation fee - $250
• Corporate Counsel Dues - $350
• Industry Dues: $350
• Defense Counsel Dues: $850
• Note that dues go to half price on April 1!
• Remember the Bylaws on admission:
to enhance our goals and strengthen the Federation legacy. As leaders of this great organization, we must develop our succession plans by recruiting others!
Not only have we exceeded recruitment goals this year, but our recruitment diversity is also off the charts! Diverse demographics result in bigger and better ideas – and those ideas played out in spades at our recent Winter Meeting in Palm Desert. Diversity is the building block for growth and integral to FDCC’s future.
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Industry Members: To be eligible for election to Industry Membership, an individual must:
◆ Have responsibility for and/or devote a substantial amount of professional time to the administration and defense of civil litigation within or outside the United States and have responsibilities that are at least regional within a country in which his or her business entity or insurance company does business and
◆ Be of high professional standing and good moral character
Corporate Counsel Members: To be eligible for election to Corporate Counsel Membership, an individual must:
◆ Be a member of the bar and admitted to practice; and
◆ Have responsibility for and/or devote a substantial amount of professional time to the administration and defense of civil litigation within or outside the United States and have responsibilities that are at least regional within a country in which his or her employer does business; and
◆ Be of high professional standing and good moral character
◆ The Admissions Committee Chair advised that the requirement to having a local nominee
is just for defense counsel. It was noted that
it is preferred for corporate counsel, but not required.
Briefly, the demographics of our membership continues to evolve
Member Type Nominations*
US Defense Counsel 158 International Defense Counsel 1 US Corporate Counsel 41 US Industry – Non Attorney 4 Grand Total 204 *52% of our nominees have been male and 48% have been female
Below is the “toolkit” that MRC uses to reach out to new members and we include it here for our Flyer audience.
• Membership Bylaws:
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Maximum of 100 Defense Counsel per state
Defense Counsel is limited to 1,200 members in the United States
To be eligible for international membership:
Be actively engaged in the private practice of law outside the United States and its territories and admitted to practice for at least eight (8) years
Devote a substantial amount of his or her professional time to the representation of
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