All Missouri lawyers aged 36 or less or, if older, who have been in practice 5 years or less, are automatically members of YLS. Membership is at no additional cost to your regular MoBar dues.
• YLS’ governing body is the YLS Council, which is composed of approximately 35 young lawyers elected for two-year terms from districts across the state, with officers and executive committee elected from wit
hin the ranks of the Council’s membership.
• As part of its mission, YLS sponsors, or helps sponsor, a variety of public service projects, CLEs, and social networking events across Missouri that are geared toward young and recently admitted lawyers. YLS works with a number of other affiliate groups, such as BAMSL and Mound City Bar Association, to co-sponsor events, exchange ideas, and otherwise try to help Missouri young lawyers find meaningful ways to integrate themselves into the legal community and enjoy and excel in their practice.
• YLS provides grants for service projects or activities consistent with YLS’ purpose.
• We produce helpful publications for the public on a variety of legal issues and quarterly e-newsletter for young lawyers that distributed to the e-mail address you have on file with the Missouri Bar.
• We also help sponsor Missouri Bar and United States’ District Court enrollment activities and give awards to deserving lawyers and organizations who show excellence in a variety of ways.
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Missouri Bar Social Media Policy
The Missouri Bar does not agree with or endorse every comment that individuals post on our pages. Our goal is to share ideas and information that contribute to The Missouri Bar’s mission: Improving the administration of justice, the laws and the legal profession on behalf of the public. Our policy is to accept comments that contribute to this mission. Posted comments and images do not necessarily represent the views of The Missouri Bar. External, non-Missouri Bar links on this site do not constitute official endorsement on behalf of The Missouri Bar. All links posted as comments on official Missouri Bar posts will be reviewed and may be deleted. While we encourage fans to share thoughts and opinions on The Missouri Bar page, we expect that this will be done in a respectful manner. A comment will be deleted if it contains:
Hate speech;
Profane, obscene, explicit or vulgar language;
Nudity in profile pictures;
Defamatory, libelous or threatening language toward an individual or group;
Name calling and/or personal attacks;
Objectionable or inflammatory language;
Comments whose main purpose are blatant marketing or advertising;
Comments that infringe on copyrights or other intellectual property;
Misuse of proprietary, privileged or confidential information;
Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile;
Comments in violation of the Facebook guidelines; or
Any other comments that The Missouri Bar Social Media Committee deem inappropriate. Repeated violations of The Missouri Bar comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from The Missouri Bar page. We understand that social media is a 24/7 medium; however, our monitoring capabilities are not. We may not see every inappropriate comment right away, and we are trusting members of our community to ignore personal attacks and negative speech or respond politely. Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
