Lawyer Pilots Bar Association – LPBA
Benefits of Membership

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Join us in Hawaii for the Winter 2012 meeting February 29-March 4!! We have a great program lined up for you and you do not want to miss this extraordinary meeting. The deadline for hotel registrations at the Hilton Waikoloa is January 28, 2012. So make your plans to come now!

Consider also donating an item to the silent auction to help raise money to support our organization. We've had everything from maple syrup to an aircraft paint job donated for prior silent auctions. So think of something you could do to help out your organization.

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A Message From 2011-2012 LPBA President Robert L. Feldman

Welcome to the LPBA website. If you’re a member, and have been to our meetings, then you already know and appreciate the quality of our organization and the value of your membership. I thank you for your support. If you’re not a member and have arrived at this page out of curiosity, through a search engine, or just by serendipity, then I bid you a hearty welcome.

The Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association is a 52-year-old, international, non-profit association which fills a unique niche in the multitude of bar associations and affiliation groups of lawyers, groups of pilots and groups of aviation afficionados, with members in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. Many people do not realize that you do not need to be a lawyer, a pilot, or a lawyer-pilot to belong to LPBA. All you need is an interest in aviation and the law, or an interest in participating in an organization with a unique focus and membership. We welcome new members. You are the future of our organization.

Membership benefits include our Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association Journal, which, under the stewardship of Gary Allen, Editor-in Chief, assembles, articles of interest to pilots, aviation enthusiasts and, of course, to lawyers who practice aviation law. Click here to see a sample issue. If you have an article you would like to submit for publication, we invite you to send it to the LPBA Journal Editor, Gary Allen (gwa1225@aol.com) for consideration.

We have two meetings a year, in the summer and winter, always in interesting locales, with lots to see and do. You will be surprised at how different our meetings are from any other bar association meeting or CLE program you have attended. Besides CLE, which is always planned to be educational and entertaining, there are other planned activities for members and also planned activities for spouses so that their meeting experience is worthwhile as well. We encourage families to bring their children, too. Check out photos of our last meeting, held at the Coeur d’Alene Resort, in Idaho, here.

For our Winter, 2012 meeting, I have selected Hilton Waikoloa Village Hotel, on the Big Island of Hawaii. The dates are 29 February 2012 to 4 March 2012. The hotel rates are incredibly low, considering that it will be peak season, as low as $215 plus tax for an island view room. Partial ocean view and deluxe ocean front rooms and even suites are also available. As an added bonus, the convention rates will be available for stays of four days prior to and four days after the meeting dates. This means that you can stay for up to 12 days at the convention rates. Besides the CLE sessions, we are planning a buffet dinner, a luau, cocktail receptions, a golf tournament, a silent auction and other events. For other activities, consider whale watching, a flight over the island, a visit to the erupting Kilauea volcano, a visit to ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs or a walk into a lava tube cave.

We expect our room block to sell out fast, so don’t delay in booking your rooms. The Hilton reservations number is 1‑800‑HILTONS (or 1‑800‑445‑8667), and the Group Code is “LPA.” Or, you can click here to book online. More details are coming soon.

For those reading this column who are not members, please consider joining so you can share in the benefits of membership. Annual membership dues are a low $119 per year. You also have the option of paying $250 for a sustaining membership, which gives you special recognition in the Journal, on the website and at meetings, a link to your website from ours, and the knowledge that you are making a definitive statement of support for our organization. You can apply online or you can print out a membership application and send it together with a check for the dues to Lawyer Pilots Bar Association, P.O. Box 1510, Edgewater, MD 21037. You can also fax the application to (410) 571-1780. If you have any questions, please call our Executive Director, Karen Griggs at (410) 571-1750.

I look forward to meeting as many of you as I can during my term as president. Please know that we welcome new ideas and suggestions from all members on what direction LPBA should take, where our meetings should be held, and what we can do to improve our organization. Please email me or call me (305-598-4841 or feldmans48@hotmail.com) at any time, or email or call Karen Griggs (410-571-1750 or lpba@comcast.net).

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