It is my honor and privilege to announce that the theme for the 65th Biennial Convention and Leadership Conference will be MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER: Strengthening Our Impact, Expanding Our Reach & Adapting to the Evolving Needs of the Legal Profession. This theme is intended to build upon the theme of the 2022–2024 Biennium during which we have been striving to meet our members where they are while moving the Fraternity forward. It also incorporates the main purpose of our strategic plan — to move the Fraternity forward in fulfillment of its mission and embodiment of its core values while ensuring all members feel valued, represented, and connected.
I believe we must continually strive for excellence and embrace change so that we can make a lasting impact on our chosen profession in order to remain relevant as a legal organization. Relying upon survey and focus group data, we have revamped our agenda to ensure it provides additional networking opportunities, ample time for fraternizing, and downtime for members to decompress. Not only will we recognize members for all their service throughout this biennium, our keynote speakers and interactive workshop speakers will focus on providing concrete ways in which we can strengthen our impact as members of P.A.D. and the legal profession. These sessions will provide us with the tools we need to expand our reach beyond our chapters and communities while embracing change so that we can adapt to the ever-evolving needs of our chosen profession.To learn more about Convention, please visit www.PAD.org/Convention. If you have not yet registered for Convention, I encourage you to do so today!
Finally, please take a moment to share this Convention Theme with your networks, share the video posted on our Facebook Page, or share our Instagram post to your stories so that all your friends and followers know how we intend to move forward as a Fraternity. As always, please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns.
I hope to see many of you in the Steel City in just 100 days!
Fraternally,
Nicole M. Grida International Justice Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International
Phi Alpha Delta is the world’s preeminent law fraternity because of our dedication to service: service to the student, the school, the profession, and the community.
It is through devotion to the ideals of compassion, courage, diversity, innovation, integrity, professionalism, and service that we better both our profession and our community. Through accepting our differences we become not just a law fraternity, but a family.