President’s Message

Dear Fellow Members of the Bar,

It is with great pleasure and appreciation that I write my second President’s Message for the Writs. The past few months of my presidency have been invigorating and enlightening. I am overwhelmed with gratitude and admiration for the leadership, service and hard work of our members and the BCBA staff.

The committees, sections and divisions are working together now more than ever to provide first-rate programming to record amounts of attendees at each event. The BCBA is coming together as a unified organization to provide exceptional benefits and opportunities to maximize your membership, service opportunities and social network.

For example, the Federal Courts Section and the Bench Bar Relations Committee hosted the Federal Courts Reception in June with record turnout and participation from the Bench and our members. The Diversity Equity and Inclusion Section, in conjunction with Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania, hosted the PA Expungement and Pardons Training CLE and we will be assisting the community with the expungement process throughout this year. The Women Lawyers Division & Young Lawyers Division ran a multi-session golf clinic at Doylestown Country Club that was a huge hit with sold out sessions each week.

In addition, the annual Honorable John J. Rufe Softball Classic was an overwhelming success this year with the largest number of players in the history of the Classic. Many of the attendees from the Classic were also a part of the New Member Breakfast that welcomed over 40 new members to the Bar Association during the first half of 2023 and pushed our total membership number well over 900 members… all records for the Bar Association.

The newly created Bar Leadership Council, which consists of the Board of Directors and the chairs of each section, division and committee, has worked extremely hard with laser focus to provide meaningful and successful programs and events to enhance the member experience and better the County. Please accept this sincere thank you for all that you are doing for the Bar Association and our community.

I would also like to extend a genuine thank you to all of our sponsors. Our inaugural sponsorship drive has been extremely successful with 14 President Club Sponsors and numerous Director and Officer level sponsors. It is this generosity and support that enables us to maintain such a high level of programming, a pristine property and phenomenal staff.

Finally, I am thrilled to announce that a personal friend of mine, Kerri Strug, the Olympic Gold Medalist gymnast, will be the Plenary Speaker at our annual Bench Bar Conference at Skytop Lodge. Please join us for the conference from September 21–23, 2023.

Thank you again for all of your hard work, ideas and assistance this year. It has been an extraordinary year and I am thoroughly enjoying my presidency.

Please contact me at any time with suggestions and questions. Thank you for choosing to be a member of the Bucks County Bar Association. 

— Lawrence R. Scheetz, Jr., Esquire Bucks County Bar Association President