Donate to GBA Habitat House 2021
If you have not had a chance to contribute to this year’s Habitat project, please go NOW to our Giving Page at give.habitatgreensboro.org/campaign/bar-build-2021 and make your contribution.
Due to the generosity of so many of our members, WE ARE NEARING OUR GOAL. But we are still short of the amount we need from our membership, and we need your help to make it the rest of the way.
The Giving Page offers three ways to give: 1) an immediate contribution by credit card 2) an address for mailing checks to Habitat and 3) an email link for making a pledge payable by July 31. The site also provides an email link for you to volunteer for the construction work, which will begin on September 18 and continue on Saturdays throughout the Fall.
OUR DISTRICT COURT JUDGES HAVE THROWN THEIR SUPPORT BEHIND THE PROJECT. Every judge who is able has volunteered to work on their construction team, and several judges have committed to sponsor the front door of the house, which will welcome our homeowner family into their new home when the construction is complete.
Fox Rothschild, Nexsen Pruet and Schell Bray have also agreed to provide work crews. Working as a firm is a great team building experience for lawyers and staff. The power point presentation that was made by Schell Bray of its Schell Bray Workday on our last Habitat house expresses the enthusiasm and sense of accomplishment they felt on that day. We encourage other firms to commit to a work day, which will be scheduled at your convenience in the Fall. Please contact Bill Cooke at [email protected] if your firm is interested.
THE FUNDRAISING GOAL IS IN SIGHT. PLEASE HELP PUT US OVER THE TOP BY GIVING TODAY!
GBA Habitat Committee
Herb Falk Society 2020 Induction
The Herb Falk Society honors those members of the Greensboro Bar Association who contribute at least 75 hours of pro bono service annually. The sixteen individuals inducted for 2020 were recognized at the April 15, 2021 virtual annual meeting. They are:
Lisa Arthur (130.3 hours)
Kearns Davis (156.6 hours)
Richard W. Gabriel (75 hours)
Eloise McCain Hassell (90.6 hours)
Manisha P. Patel (393.25 hours)
Karen McKeithen Schaede (76 hours)
Jim Slaughter (94 hours)
D. Clark Smith, Jr. (305.4 hours)
Theodora A. Vaporis (94 hours)
Jonathan Wall (94 hours)
Congratulations and Thank You for Your Service!
President Arthur Recognized for Outstanding Service
President Lisa Arthur was recognized for her service at the virtual Annual Meeting of the Greensboro Bar Association and the 24th Judicial District Bar on April 15, 2021. President Elect Desmond Sheridan paid tribute to Ms. Arthur’s many accomplishments and contributions to our organization. This year’s need for social distance dictated that a gift from the members be presented to Lisa at her office after the meeting.
Thank you, Lisa, for serving the members of the Greensboro Bar Association well in these challenging times!
Help Support Our Ninth Habitat House
Help Support Our Ninth Habitat House
After a one-year COVID delay, we will begin construction of GBA’s ninth Habitat house on September 18. In the meantime, we need to raise the rest of the $75,000 we have committed to Habitat for the cost of house. Already GBA members have given $40,078 including the $25,000 anonymous contribution that got us started. In the coming weeks, you will receive an email with a link to a giving page for you to make contributions and volunteer to work on the house. Please be on the lookout for the email. Our goal is to complete the fundraising by May 31 and to have a list of volunteers who have committed to join in the work.
This project adds to our long-standing tradition of sponsoring Habitat houses going back to 1990. Our Habitat work has brought great credit to this Bar Association and provided us with an opportunity to work together in partnership with one another, with the judges who join with us, and with the homeowner families who move from substandard housing to a home of their own and who can then build equity for the future as they pay down their mortgages to Habitat. When you receive the link to the giving page, please give generously so we can meet our fundraising goal going away and be among the first to volunteer for our work on the site.
Christon Halkiotis Presented with 2020 Centennial Award
The 2020 Centennial Award for outstanding and exemplary community service was presented to Christon S. Halkiotis at the virtual GBA member meeting on March 18, 2021.
Christon earned her B.A. from Rutgers University in 2000 and her J.D. (cum laude) from N.C. Central University School of Law in 2004. She was an Assistant District Attorney in the District Attorney’s Office in Greensboro and High Point for 15 years,
from 2004 to 2019. She has had her own law practice since October of 2019.
Christon’s community service has largely been with the Junior League of Greensboro where she had a stellar year as President. She focused her volunteer and fundraising efforts on the League’s goals of providing resources and assistance to elderly adults in our community. Some of the community projects she has been involved with include Friends Against Fraud, which provided assistance to elderly individuals on elder financial abuse; Community Housing Solutions, which provided financial help and volunteers to assist elderly residents in Greensboro by making home repairs when they were unable to complete those repairs themselves due to physical and financial issues; Food Assistance to provide food to elderly members of our community who are homebound; and she assisted with the rehabilitation of the Smith Senior Center.
She has always been a big supporter of the League-run thrift store, the Bargain Box. As a sustaining member of the League, Christon continues to go out of her way to support the Bargain Box through donations and volunteering her time because she believes it plays an essential role in our community, and specifically to women in need through the League’s special partnership with the Women’s Resource Center.
We are pleased to recognize Christon Halkiotis for her dedicated service to the community and her commitment to making it a better place for all.
Message from Chief District Court Judge Teresa H. Vincent
Dear Members of the Bar,
As you may know, our backlog of cases has grown exponentially due to COVID-19. By not issuing Orders for Arrest (except for good cause) or entering Failures to Appear, it has caused a significant rise in pending cases. In fact, the clerk is running out of space to store pending case files. Files marked as “Failed to Appear” are not stored with pending files, neither are they counted as pending cases for purposes of establishing the number of pending (backlog) cases. Consequently, effective Monday, March 1, 2021, I will have a clerk to classify files that remain at the end of the court session with a “failure to appear” status for defendants that are NOT out of jail on a secured bond.
Best regards,
Teresa H. Vincent
Chief District Court Judge Guilford
North Carolina Judicial Branch
Annual CLE for Members and Non-members Feb. 18
Our Virtual ANNUAL CLE is being held on Thursday, February 18 via Zoom. It will begin at 1:10 PM (immediately following the February member meeting at 12:30) and run until 5:30 PM.
This 4-hour program (approval pending) will include a special presentation about the legal history of Jim Crow laws in North Carolina, the required substance abuse hour, a refresher on trust account management, a legislative update and a judges’ panel focusing on systemic racism and implicit bias in the justice system.
The discounted registration is $110 for GBA members and $130 for non-members.
The non-discounted price (after February 11) is $130 for GBA members and $150 for non-members.
GBA Trivia Night February 11
What do you know? We’ll find out when you join the GBA for Virtual Trivia Night. Test your skill in this warm up to an anticipated Battle of the Bars rematch with the High Point Bar Association.
The food and drinks are on you (because you will be playing from your living room) but the fun is on the GBA!
Registration is required. Limited to 30 players.
Members registered as individuals will be randomly assigned to a team upon arrival. Members wanting to form their own team of 4-6 players should ask one teammate to register and add each team member (and their email address) to their reservation as a guest.
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Greensboro Bar Association
24th Judicial District Bar
122 North Elm Street, Suite 805
Greensboro, NC 27402
(336) 378-0300
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Greensboro Bar Association
24th Judicial District Bar
PO Box 1825
Greensboro, NC 27402