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The 121st Annual Arkansas Bar Association’s Annual Meeting took place June 12-14 in Hot Springs. In addition to offering more than 40 hours of continuing legal education, the event provides a great opportunity for the nearly 1,000 attorneys and judges to celebrate the achievements of their colleagues and mingle outside the courtroom.

Attorney Jamie Jones received the 2019 Golden Gavel award at the Arkansas Bar Association’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 13. The honor was given by ABA President Suzanne Clark for Jamie’s work as the chair of the 2019 Mid-Year Meeting. The Golden Gavel award recipients are chosen each year by the ABA president for their outstanding work and service to the association.

Laura Hensley Smith is the recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Lawyer Award presented jointing by the Arkansas Bar Foundation and the Arkansas Bar Association.

Attorney J. Shepherd Russell III was the honored guest at last night’s 10th Annual Bow Tie Bash held at the Clinton Presidential Center. The event is the flagship fundraiser for Arkansas Commitment, a nonprofit organization created to identify academically talented African-American high school students throughout central Arkansas and guide them to become leaders of society at large, as well as within the African-American community.

By Lynda M. Johnson, Timothy C. Ezell and Amie K. Alexander Published in Arkansas Medical News (May/June) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced its Final Conscience Regulation which broadens protections for individuals and healthcare entities that refuse to perform, assist in the performance of, or undergo certain healthcare services or research activities to which they may object for religious, moral, ethical or other reasons.

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP is proud to announce seven attorneys have been chosen by the readers of AY Magazine as the best lawyers in the state, some in multiple categories. The results of this year’s readers’ poll were released in the June 2019 issue of the magazine.

As a result of severe flooding in many parts of Arkansas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared last Thursday that an emergency exists in Arkansas, Chicot, Conway, Crawford, Desha, Faulkner, Jefferson, Johnson, Lincoln, Logan, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Sebastian, and Yell Counties. This means that taxpayers are now eligible under Internal Revenue Code Section 165(i) to claim casualty losses on either their 2018 or 2019 tax returns for losses incurred as a result of the emergency.