BAEC Bulletin | May/June 2022 | 19
Candidates for Director (continued)
The Legal Profession is growing and changing – let’s get ready for it. I am running for a position on the Board of Directors for the Bar Association of Erie County to ensure we are attorney focused, mission focused, and future focused. I want to make sure that the BAEC continues to create and develop programs and events that encourage attorneys of various stages of their careers and from all life experiences to perfect their skills – maybe even like it! This honorable profession can come with much heartache and strife which means we cannot ignore the need to not only celebrate our wins but be there for each other and re-enforce a sense of community. I also want to make sure the BAEC stays true to its mission and pushes for improvements in our legal system and our professional. There are many opportunities for reform where the Bar can continue to
be a positive, collective voice for change. And with that, we can work towards a future that is outwardly seeking for more voices, more ideas, and more perspectives – from learned practitioners and new attorneys, from underrepresented attorneys and attorneys for the underrepresented, from non-profits and private practices. As a member of the Board, I’d take my advocacy experience- from the community and in litigation- and turn it towards growing a strong, connected Bar.
Katie L. Kestel Martin Partner Pusatier Sherman Abbott & Sugarman, LLP
The Bar Association of Erie County has been an integral part of my professional development since I began practicing a decade ago, and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to assist in the continuation of that tradition as a Director, if I am elected. I believe that the high caliber of legal work and integrity that exists in the Western New York legal community is often due to the personal relationships that attorneys have developed with one another, and the Bar Association of Erie County often provides the forum where those relationships are forged. If elected, I will apply the skills I have developed
as an Associate Attorney at Hurwitz & Fine, as a Local Director and Co-chair of the Working Parents’ Committee for the Western New York Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of New York, and as the President of the Board of Lawyers for Learning in service of the Bar Association of Erie County’s mission.
Kara M. Eyre Associate Attorney Hurwitz & Fine, P.C.
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