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46 Philadelphia Bar Rep. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.barjournals/phlbrrpr0046 and id is 1 raw text is: The Monthly Newspaper of the Philadelphia Bar Association ANNUAL MEETING LUNCHEON Pro Bono Service to Be Chancellor's Focus for 2017 * By Thomas E. Rogers SURROUNDED ON THE DAIS BY REPRESEN- tatives of the more than 40 legal services organizations in Philadelphia, Deborah R. Gross, of counsel at Kaufman, Coren & Ress, P.C., ascended as the Philadelphia Bar Association's 90th Chancellor on Dec. 7 on a platform of highlighting and expanding pro bono service. Before being elected Vice Chancellor in 2014, for more than 12 years Gross was a trustee, an officer and president of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, which pro- vides grants to more than 30 legal services organizations in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is in a unique position of having more than 40 different legal ser- vices organizations as champions for those who are vulnerable or who are living at or below the poverty line, Gross said at the Association's Annual Meeting Luncheon at the Hyatt at The Bellevue. These organi- zations fight for justice and make our legal system more fair. While I know many of us have provided monetary support for their endeavors, and many of us have provided pro bono support as well...we need to step up our game and step out of our comfort zones, the Chancellor said. She spoke about the 2016 Young Lawyers Division Expungement Clinic, of which she was a volunteer attorney, telling the audience Vol. 46, No. 1 0 Chancellor Deborah R. Gross gives her inaugural address surrounded by representatives of the more than 40 legal services organizations in Philadelphia at the Dec. 7 Annual Meeting Luncheon at the Hyatt at The Bellevue. January 2017 Board Calls for Assessment of US Attorney General Candidate RECOGNIZING CONCERNS OVER NUMER- ous actions taken by Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III that call into question his qualifications as U.S. Attor- ney General, the Board of Governors unanimously adopted a resolution on Dec. 15 urging Sen. Bob Casey Jr., Sen. Pat Toomey and other members of the U.S. Senate to thoroughly investigate and assess all of the issues listed in the resolution at the forthcoming Senate hearing to determine whether or not Sen. Sessions should be confirmed for the continued on page 2 VERITEXT LEGAL SOLUTIONS Philadelphia Bar Association Signature Sponsor ReDorter Bar Bar

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