November-December 2002 Volume 27 Number 2 Bar Leader Home Subscriptions News/Story Ideas Form Current Issue Older Issues This page uses JavaScript. To take advantage of this feature, please download Internet Explorer or Navigator 4.x. Bar Leader Home|Subscriptions|Current Issue|Older Issues Table of Contents Cover stories: The changing annual meeting: New timeframes, new formats, new directions Many bars have found themselves faced with declining attendance at their annual meetings, as members juggle family, career, and other commitments. Solutions bars have come up with include making the meeting more family-friendly, making it biannual instead of annual, teaming up with another bar or bars for a joint meeting, and replacing a general annual meeting with a series of symposiums targeted to specific members’ needs. See who has tried what, and what has worked for them. Retreat! Boards find benefit in getting away together In today’s time-pressured world, is it still worthwhile to get board members together for a retreat? Some have found that there’s no better way to forge new bonds and get some real work done. You’d be surprised how an impromptu game of Ping-Pong can help break the ice! Here, several bar leaders discuss the format of their retreats, the great projects that have emerged from them, and why they think some time away together is critical to the mission of their board. Building board awareness of government relations: A how-to To do their jobs as effectively as possible, a bar’s government relations personnel must communicate well with the bar’s board. A veteran legislative counsel shares some tips on how to make sure legislative issues stay on the board’s radar. Some of these include making sure reports to the board are concise and complete, having sections and committees review legislation that is pertinent to them, and making use of board liaisons, who tend to be underutilized. You’re a leader … How’s your process? In the first part of a series on best practices for bar leaders, Allan B. Head, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services, challenges leaders to evaluate just how effective they are. What makes someone a good leader? See why the old-fashioned idea of issuing commands no longer works in today’s world, and how a more collaborative approach can bring people together to achieve the bar’s goals. Back to Top Copyright American Bar Association. http://www.abanet.org
November-December 2002 Volume 27 Number 2
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Cover stories:
The changing annual meeting: New timeframes, new formats, new directions
Many bars have found themselves faced with declining attendance at their annual meetings, as members juggle family, career, and other commitments. Solutions bars have come up with include making the meeting more family-friendly, making it biannual instead of annual, teaming up with another bar or bars for a joint meeting, and replacing a general annual meeting with a series of symposiums targeted to specific members’ needs. See who has tried what, and what has worked for them.
Retreat! Boards find benefit in getting away together
In today’s time-pressured world, is it still worthwhile to get board members together for a retreat? Some have found that there’s no better way to forge new bonds and get some real work done. You’d be surprised how an impromptu game of Ping-Pong can help break the ice! Here, several bar leaders discuss the format of their retreats, the great projects that have emerged from them, and why they think some time away together is critical to the mission of their board.
Building board awareness of government relations: A how-to
To do their jobs as effectively as possible, a bar’s government relations personnel must communicate well with the bar’s board. A veteran legislative counsel shares some tips on how to make sure legislative issues stay on the board’s radar. Some of these include making sure reports to the board are concise and complete, having sections and committees review legislation that is pertinent to them, and making use of board liaisons, who tend to be underutilized.
You’re a leader … How’s your process?
In the first part of a series on best practices for bar leaders, Allan B. Head, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services, challenges leaders to evaluate just how effective they are. What makes someone a good leader? See why the old-fashioned idea of issuing commands no longer works in today’s world, and how a more collaborative approach can bring people together to achieve the bar’s goals.
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