THE ADVOCATE Newsletter of The Baltimore County Bar Association VOLUME XXV, NO. 2
August 2016
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Robert J. Thompson LET’S HAVE SOME FUN! Please join us for BCBA Night (Day) at the Yard on Sunday, August 21 at 1:35 p.m. when the Orioles host the Houston Astros!! We have 60 tickets available in the “Flight Deck” section at the stadium. Tickets are $50 each and include a $15 voucher that can be used for food & merchandise purchases at the game. This is a great opportunity to mix and mingle with your colleagues and to watch the first-place Orioles in their quest for a pennant! COURTHOUSE SECURITY. Most of us are in and out of the courthouse so often that we take its security and safety for granted. Up to now, we’d simply flash our ID cards, the Sheriff’s Deputy would check the expiration date and (usually with a smile and a “Good Morning, Counsel”), waive us in.... But those days are over. As of July 29, even those of us who possess a valid MSBA Courthouse
ID card will have to be screened and pass through a magnetometer as we enter the Circuit Courthouse here in Towson. I am not proud to tell you that upon hearing this news several weeks ago, my first thought was about my own inconvenience. But while I was thinking about it, trying to come to terms with it, I happened to read a blurb in the ABA Journal about two women who were killed outside an Arizona courthouse by a grandfather who was in the middle of a custody and visitation dispute with his grandchild’s mother and grandmother. Reading that story reminded me that while my own convenience may be a big deal to me, in the scheme of things, it’s not really all that important after all. Sometimes I think all of us are susceptible to losing perspective on the fact that our clients and
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