Christoff aims to empower young lawyers in bar role

Law Talk profile for The Memphis Daily News

Jan. 17, 2013

Annie Christoff of Bass, Berry & Sims PLC is the new president of the Young Lawyers Division of the Memphis Bar Association for 2013.

The Young Lawyers Division is comprised of lawyers under the age of 36 or within their first three years of practice. The division sponsors monthly continuing legal education (CLE) seminars, networking functions and fundraising for organizations such as the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Memphis.

Christoff hopes to continue the group’s focus on the mentoring of young lawyers by those more experienced especially for those who recently passed the bar and may have had trouble finding work in a down economy, or who hung out their own shingle straight out of law school.

“They may be missing out on some of those mentoring opportunities that hasn’t really been an issue in the past because you get that from your firm, usually,” Christoff said. “So we’re always looking for ways to reach out to those young lawyers and let them know that they have resources in the Memphis Bar Association to help them develop, especially in those critical first few years.”

The Hutchison School graduate went to Tulane University for an undergraduate degree in economics. The daughter of parents in the medical field was also a pre-med student, and after graduating, she moved back to Memphis to teach high school math and chemistry at Hutchison … (read more)