The Weekly DigestMembers only · every week
One email, midweek, with everything happening at Queen's Bench and across the Bay Area legal community — programs, people, jobs, and the work of our affiliates. It is the single thing most members read, and the fastest way to reach them. Why weekly From seasons to weeksFor most of our history, Queen's Bench spoke to its members a few times a year, in a seasonal newsletter. It suited a slower profession. Then the pandemic closed the courthouses, moved the bar onto Zoom, and made a quarterly rhythm useless — by the time an issue arrived, everything in it had changed. Coming out of COVID-19, and alongside the Centennial Modernization Project, we replaced the seasonal newsletter with a weekly digest. The trade was deliberate: less ceremony, more currency. A registration link is worth something while registration is still open. It has held. The Digest is now where new members are welcomed, where MCLEs fill, where the Gala builds, and where our affiliates' events reach a Bay Area bar that would otherwise never hear about them. How a week runs Sunday to your inboxThe Digest runs on one hard deadline. Everything that makes it into an issue arrives before Sunday closes.
What's inside The anatomy of an issueNot every section runs every week — an issue carries what the week actually gave it. These are the standing ones, in the order you'll meet them. This Week at Queen's Bench The opening, and the contentsA short paragraph setting the week's theme, then This Week You'll Find — a bulleted table of contents so a member can see in five seconds whether anything in the issue is for her. This Week Featured storyThe week's lead: a member honored or appointed, a court decision that reaches our community, an initiative worth explaining at length rather than announcing in a line. Recently: a profile of our 2026 Gala keynote speaker, Professor Karen Musalo, on three decades of building the legal framework for gender-based asylum claims. Our Community Welcome new membersEvery member who joined that week, by name. It is the shortest section and one of the most read — being named in front of the whole bar is how membership starts to feel like membership. Mark Your Calendars Events & registrationOur own programs first — MCLEs with their flyers and a registration button, the Gala, committee meetings — then events from the affiliate organizations we work alongside, with dates, locations, and any discount codes they've extended to us. A typical issue carries both: our summer MCLEs on digital evidence, plus receptions and mixers from BASF, CMCP, the Minority Bar Coalition, ACCTLA, CCCBA, the Federal Bar Association, and others. This is the longest section, and usually the reason members open the email. Committees · Membership · Sponsorship Get involvedThe standing invitations: serve on one of our fourteen committees, find the membership tier that fits, or sponsor the work. Mostly evergreen, and rewritten when a campaign is running. Careers Members' job boardThe week's new postings — courts, public agencies, firms, in-house — each linked through to the full listing. Employers send these to us directly, and the board itself stays behind member login. Did You Know? Something we've built for youA closing note on a member resource that not everyone has found yet — a new tool, a corner of the site, a benefit going unused. See for yourself A real issue, front to backDescriptions only go so far. This is an actual Digest as members received it — the featured story, the flyers, the affiliate listings, the job board, all of it. Read a sample issue (PDF)Sample issue · July 15, 2026 · PDF Send us something What makes the DigestMembers, committees, and affiliate organizations all submit — the Digest is only as good as what reaches it by Sunday. Things that run well:
Send the details as you'd want them read, and any image at full size. Earlier is better than longer. Email digest@queensbench.orgWho makes it Edited in-houseThe Digest is edited each week by our Assistant Secretary-Treasurer and our Administrator — one an officer of the Board, the other our staff. Under our bylaws, preparing and circulating the newsletter is the Assistant Secretary-Treasurer's charge, and the Board sets how often it goes out. Weekly is that answer. Questions about an issue, a correction, or something that should have run and didn't: digest@queensbench.org. |