Page 9 - 2026 January February Magazine

Briefly... BY KIT KASNER
A Word from the Executive Director
Thank you to the 2025 TPCBA Board of Trustees for your work and
time ensuring a successful year. Thank you to our outgoing Trustees, committee
chairs, co-chairs and members, as well as section presidents…THANK YOU
TPCBA volunteers for your hard work throughout the 2025 year. We welcome our
new 2026 TPCBA President Nina Caldwell and her new Board.
The gavel will be passed to Nina at the Lincoln Day Banquet on February 6.
Please plan to attend our 118th annual event.
Don’t forget to go online and pay your 2026 membership dues (or send
them in). If you have a courthouse ID badge you will need a TPCBA 2026 sticker,
which will be sent when your dues are received. Once you pay your dues your card
will still need to be activated internally by Security. From the Bar’s desk to theirs it
takes around 3 days, once we receive your payment. Need help maneuvering around
our website? Looking for something or trying to log in for the first time? Call our
Web Coordinator Laurie at 253 841-8410 for assistance.
Don’t have a courthouse ID badge? Email director@tpcba.com to make an
appointment to have your photo taken and your new badge issued. It takes just 5
minutes. Working with courthouse security, we take photos once per month, so
connect with us to make an appointment and get your name on that list.
As you complete your membership form, please also consider signing up
to serve on our Lawyer Referral Panel. Being a LRS panel member helps those
in our community get timely access to experienced attorneys, helps you and your
firm get access to possible new clients, and, if your firm is hired 10% of the fees paid
to you helps support and maintain our Lawyer Referral Service (LRS)
and the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar. See page 23 for more info.
As we move along in 2026 please let us know if you have
any thoughts about our services, CLEs, programs, website,
magazine, etc. We love to hear from our membership.
Connect with the Bar office or Board of
Trustees. Perhaps you would like to attend one
of our monthly Trustees meetings or write an
article for our Pierce County Lawyer Magazine.
We welcome more authors to share their legal
information (articles of interest) with our
members. Visit our website at TPCBA.
com for all the latest information.
See you all
at the
Lincoln Day
Banquet!
Stay Connected!
Join the Bar on social
media; Facebook ,
Twitter & Linkedin .
Send your Facebook posts to
media rep. Liz Johnson at
liz@ajelderlaw.com
Save the date:
30th Annual
Bar Convention
Sept. 18-20, 2026
Suquamish Clearwater
Casino Resort (Poulsbo)
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