Classes of Membership.

Welcome. We have three classes of membership:  active, associate and inactive.  One is eligible for Active membership when one has been admitted to the NC Bar and has registered with the NC State Bar as eigher living or working in the 28th Judicial District [comprised of Buncombe County;  see also, map of NC Judicial Districts].  One may join our Bar as an Associate if one is licensed in another state.  See our Bylaws to learn about Inactive membership status.

 

How to Join. 

To become a member, send your mailing address, email address, phone number, your state bar number, your North Carolina State Bar admission date, and your date of birth to the Bar Administrator.   You may contact the Bar Administrator by telephone 828-252-5733 or by email at greta@ashevillebuncombelaw.net 

Mandatory Dues. 

Please return a check made payable to the 28th Judicial District Bar for your dues when you receive your invoice.  Annual Dues are required by law and have been implemented through our local bylaws. See N.C.G.S. 84.  If you would like to join, the annual membership fee as of 2007 became $125 for members licensed within the last three years and $150 for attorneys licensed for more than three years.  An invoice will be sent to you electronically.    Make your payment to the 28th Judicial District Bar, Address your envelope as follows: 28th Judicial District Bar, Attention: Treasurer, PO Box 7391, Asheville, NC 28802. 

Meetings. 

We hold our monthly bar meetings at luncheons on the second Wednesday of the month at the YMI Cultural Center, which is located at 39 South Market Street in Downtown Asheville.  The meeting starts at 12:30 PM, but you are welcome to come early to register.  No meetings are held in July, August, and December.  Luncheon fees are $10 for members, $18 for guests.   Please RSVP for any events you plan to attend. 

Bar Communications.  

• Preface

Most Bar communication is electronic:  it is sent via Email and/or posted on this website.  Our 600+ members use a wide variety of technology and software.  We do our best to communicate compatibly with the modalities most commonly in use by lawyers, but we know that users will experience problems.  Many problems will be solved by users' taking the steps permitted within their systems to cause Bar Emails and Bar website applications to be accepted by their spam filters, Email servers, and other elements.  Having taken steps to provide wide compatibility, we have not staffed our office to help with technology problems that individuals may experience with our communications.

• Newsletter
  

A monthly bar newsletter, currently called Bar Briefs, is sent by electronic mail and posted on the website early in each month.   You will probably have to cause various components of your technology, including your spam filter and email server, to accept these emails. 

If you are a new member who would like for us to introduce you and your practice in a Bar newsletter, click Submit Items to Bar Publications  to create and Email a New Member submission. 

For other submissions to the newsletter, go to the general Bar Briefs submissions guidelines and Email address under the Submit Items tab.

The deadline for the monthly newsletter is the 15th of the month.  We publish around the 1st of the month.

• Weekly Email

A weekly Email is sent electronically to those members who have provided an Email address to the 28th JDB.  It is the most time-sensitive way of receiving information of interest to 28th lawyers and the legal community.  So make sure that your Bar Administrator has an Email address for you. 

To enter a submission to the weekly Email, click Submit Items to Bar Publications to learn how to create and Email an entry.

• Website

This is the Bar's website.  Among its benefits is a Member Directory.  We invite you to join the Directory, by setting up a profile.  [A basic initial profile may be set up for you by the Bar Administrator, but optimizing the benefits of the Directory can only be achieved by your input in creating and periodically updating the profile.]  An initial password will be provided by the Bar Administrator.

 

Bar Office. 

The Bar Office is located at 64 Broadway in downtown Asheville.  We are not staffed full-time, so please make an appointment so that we may best serve your needs.  Click here to contact us.