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The
Community Service award, also known as the Spirit of ALA Award, is to be
presented each year as tangible evidence of our Chapter’s commitment to
community service, and to giving something back to our community by
means of service to others. The award will be engraved with the
recipient’s name and year of receipt and awarded in March each year.
The winner will have the honor of displaying the trophy for a one-year
period until it is returned to be engraved and awarded to the next
recipient.
This
trophy represents the commitment of all of us – individual members, our
respective law firms and our vendor partners – to work together for a
better community. We hope it is destined to become a lasting award by
and from the Atlanta Chapter.
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2007 Recipient
Jennifer Brinkley |
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2006 Recipient
Mabry & McClelland, LLP |
2005 Recipient
Judy Sullivan |
2004 Recipient
Document Technologies |
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2003 Recipient
Robins Kaplan Miller
& Ciresi LLP |
2002 Recipient
Beth Hesmer
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2001 Recipient
Cathy McCollister |
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Each year
in January, the Community Service Committee shall recommend to the
Chapter’s Board a Chapter Member, a Participating Law Firm, or a Vendor
Company as the recipient of the Community Service Award that year.
Simultaneously with making their recommendation to the Chapter Board,
the chairman of the Community Service Committee or their designee,
should retrieve the Award from the previous years’ winner. Upon
approval by the Board of the committee’s recommendation, the
trophy can be engraved with the name of winner so that it can be
presented at the March chapter meeting.
Winners
can be chapter members, firms or vendor companies. The criteria for
consideration of the winner is as follows:
Individual ALA member:
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The
individual must be an active member of the Atlanta Chapter who
regularly participates in
AALA meetings and other activities. |
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The
individual must actively participate in all chapter Community
Service activities. |
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The
individual regularly demonstrates the ideals of ALA at the National,
Regional and Chapter level. |
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The
individual represents an example of Community Service leadership to
others and rallies others to participate in the various chapter
projects. |
Law
Firm:
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The
trophy may be awarded to the law firm with the largest ratio of
participation in two or more functions. The ratio is to be
computed based on the number of staff to lawyers in the firm. By
using such a ratio, all firms, regardless of their size, are equally
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Company/Vendor:
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The
award may be given to a vendor, either the company or an individual,
who demonstrates outstanding participation in a leadership
role relating to one or more of
AALA’s activities, one of which must
be active participation in a Community Service project.
Participation in Chapter activities could include participation in
the vendor luncheons, sponsorship of one or more chapter meetings,
and taking an active role in one or more of ALA’s service projects. |
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