The California Young Lawyers Association: Forward With the Future of the California Lawyers Association
| Publication year | 2018 |
| Author | Emilio E. Varanini |
Emilio E. Varanini
Emilio E. Varanini is a senior Deputy Attorney General in the Antitrust Section of the California Attorney General's Office. He has a law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has studied at the Institut d' Etudes Politiques at the University of Bordeaux in France and was selected in 2000 as a Salzburg Seminar Fellow, Transnational Perspectives of Intellectual Property and Communications, Salzburg, Austria. Emilio is currently Vice-President of the California Lawyers' Association.
The California Young Lawyers Association ("CYLA") was originally set up by the State Bar of California as a special committee for young attorneys. Attorneys who were thirty-six years or younger, or had five years of experience or less, were automatically signed up to CYLA. This gave CYLA an enormous base of young and new attorneys, amounting approximately 50,000 members.
Senate Bill 36 split off CYLA with the Sections into a new 501(c)(6) that became the California Lawyers Association ("CLA"). After the split occurred, CLA and CYLA discussed how to use the opportunity granted by separation to revitalize and enhance the work of CYLA, consulting with such other organizations as the American Bar Association ("ABA").
Together, CLA and CYLA worked out a new vision for CYLA that would allow CLA and CYLA to move forward into the future together, enhancing the future leadership of CLA as the second-largest bar organization in the country. The changes include the following:
CYLA's board will have one representative from each Section plus four at-large members and three officers, in addition to having non-voting advisors.
The representative from each Section will also serve as the liaison to that Section, attending that Section's Executive Committee meetings at that Section's expense.
Anyone that has eight years or less of experience as an attorney can be a member of CYLA.
The changes seem to be unexceptional, but have profound implications. There will be a tighter link between the Sections and CYLA. CYLA and the Sections will be working diligently to promote programming and network events that interest young attorneys and that link young attorneys into critical Section programming. This follows, and deepens, a long tradition that existed prior to the formation of CLA and continued past its formation: The Tax Section cultivated young attorneys for years...
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