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92 Def. Counsel J. [i] (2025)

handle is hein.journals/defcon92 and id is 1 raw text is: Home (https://www.iadclaw.org) > Document Detail Defense Counsel Journal President's Page - Volume 92, Number 1 Volume 92, No.1 February 05, 2025 Email Share Print Donna Lamontagne Strengthening Our IADC Community, Part 2 Our IADC is an Intellectual, Adventurous, Diverse Community of exceptional lawyers and remarkable people. This is the first sentence of the message I wrote just a few months ago to promote the October, 2024 issue of the Defense CounselJournal. Since then, the word Diverse has become a political football. As we head to our Midyear Meeting in Dana Point, starting on Super Bowl Sunday, it feels like the Super Bowl for lawyers is upon us too. Our esteemed Editor, Peter Pizzi, pointed out in his foreword, that we are facing abrupt policy changes. Regardless of political affiliation, these are impacting the rule of law. How will we meet these challenges? Will we remain silent? When I took the gavel to lead this organization last July, I stressed the on-going need for civil dialogue. We need it now more than ever. We need voices of reason; voices of lawyers that have devoted their professional lives to serve the law, not any particular political party or individual. The voices of the authors in these scholarly articles are just such voices. On behalf of the entire membership, we thank them for their contribution to our community.