VSB NEWS < Noteworthy Notice to Members: MCLE Compliance Deadline Is October 31 REMINDER — The MCLE requirement is 12.0 CLE hours of which 2.0 must be ethics and 4.0 must be from live interactive programs. See FAQs about the new requirement and other MCLE compliance information at http://www.vsb.org/site/members/mcle-courses/. Your compliance deadline for mandatory continuing legal education is October 31. Go to https://member.vsb.org/vsbportal/ and log in to review your MCLE record and certify your course attendance. The MCLE End of Year Report (Form 1) will be mailed in early November. Please review the report and, if incomplete, amend as instructed. Amended reports must be received by the bar no later than 4:45 PM on December 15. Make application now for any non-approved courses. Beginning November 1, a $50 application fee will be required for applications received more than 90 days following the date of attendance. Questions: Please contact the MCLE office at (804) 775-0577 or e-mail MCLE@vsb.org. The VSB E-News Have you been receiving the Virginia State Bar E-News? The E-News is a brief monthly sum-mary of deadlines, programs, rule changes, and news about your regulatory bar. The E-News is emailed to all VSB members. If your Virginia State Bar E-News is being blocked by your spam filter, contact your email administrator and ask to have the VSB.org domain added to your permis-sions list. Diversity Conference Events Scheduled by Eva N. Juncker, Diversity Conference chair Did you know that on February 25, 2011, the Virginia Senate issued a formal resolution commending the Virginia State Bar’s Diversity Conference? The Virginia Senate found that “…the legal needs of our citizens are themselves ever-changing, and that the legal profes-sion and the Virginia State Bar have a steadfast duty to be appropriately antici-patory and responsive to these changing legal needs, and that the Diversity Conference is a critical component of this duty.” (A copy of Senate Resolution 31 can be found on our web page: www.dcvsb.org.) So how is your Diversity Conference working to help the legal profession be responsive to these changing legal needs? We had two events this fall. First, we pre-sented “Jazz 4 Justice” at James Madison University on October 4. All proceeds www.vsb.org from the event go towards scholarships for the musicians, the ongoing work of the Diversity Conference, and to Blue Ridge Legal Services, the legal aid society that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income residents of the Shenandoah Valley and Roanoke Valley of Virginia. For our second fall event, we leapt at the opportunity to co-present, along with the Center for Teaching the Rule of Law, a panel at the Virginia Women Attorney Association biennial legal con-ference, “Law: The Ultimate Power Tool.” Our presentation, “Forging in the Foundry of Justice, The Rule of Law for We the People,” was scheduled for October 18. Building on the collective legal experiences of the audience, the presentation explored and discussed the rule of law and its role in the creation and evolution of our democracy. As the Senate resolution noted, “the Virginia State Bar’s wisdom, foresight, humanity, and commitment to equal justice, access to justice, and the rule of law are worthy and profoundly important traditions of leadership in the history of this Commonwealth.” We continued that tra-dition this fall. Would you like to collaborate on a legal event that will foster and encourage diversity in admission to the bar, in advancement in the profession, in the judiciary, in professional leadership opportunities, or in ways that ensure that Virginians’ changing legal needs are met? Please reach out to the Diversity Conference. We welcome the opportu-nity to work with all law schools, sec-tions, conferences, and voluntary bar associations in the commonwealth. Vol. 63 | October 2014 | VIRGINIA LAWYER 51