The ABA proposal is designed to increase public awareness and to bring the generations together in finding solutions. Particularly, the debate program will expose the ABA’s 400,000+ lawyers and thousands of grade school students to issues involving these entitlements.
The program will be held 3 p.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago.
An effort is underway in conjunction with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and its Youth Initiative Program, which teaches government courses in more than 20,000 schools across the United States, to partner with the Public Agenda’s Facing Up organization in Washington, D.C. to provide teaching and discussion materials for use based on the program, as well as telecast the presentation. The intent would be to prepare lesson plans, based on the debate, which would be distributed to the schools for use in their civic courses. For more information on this program, please contact Leigh Middleditch at lmiddleditch@mcguirewoods.com.
Leigh Middleditch (lmiddleditch@mcguirewoods.com) serves as of counsel in the Charlottesville office, and as vice president of McGuireWoods Consulting LLC. He practices in the areas of fiduciary administration, tax-exempt organizations, and charitable gift planning.
He has more than 50 years of experience in advising colleges, universities and tax-exempt organizations. Active in the American Bar Association, he has been chair of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the Tax Section, chair of the Senior Lawyers Division, and recently served on the ABA Board of Governors. He will be given the John Pickering award by the Division at the Chicago meeting.
He has also served on the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors, and as legal adviser and special counsel to the university. He is a fellow of the American Bar Association and Virginia Bar Foundation, and is co-author of the 1993 edition of Virginia Civil Procedure. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in 1951, and an LL.B. degree in 1957. He is admitted to practice in Virginia.
Contact Mr. Middleditch at (434) 977-2543.
