May - June 2003 Volume 27 Number 5 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 Highlights Cover stories: Reading, leading, and listening: Bars link lawyers with kids Every day and all across the country, lawyers are linking with schoolchildren, under the auspices of their bar associations. Whether they read stories to kindergarteners, take high school students on college tours, or just offer friendship and support, these volunteers find they’ve made a real connection and maybe even changed a life. Get inspired as you read about some of these bar programs and how they benefit students and volunteers alike. In print and online, bars reach out to kids In a previous issue, we explored how bars are trying to correct adults’ misperceptions of lawyers. Here’s a look at how some are reshaping those ideas early on, by reaching out to children with information, guidance, and a good dose of fun. Through Web sites, newspapers, coloring books, and even trading cards, these bar associations and foundations teach kids about their legal rights and about the law as a profession, which just might help shatter some stereotypes before they even start. Bars resist sales tax on legal services Faced with tight budgets, many states are again considering putting a tax on legal services. See how bars are trying to prevent this by working together and with other professional groups. What has worked in the past, and what might the future hold? Also included is information on how you can get involved. We are a strange herd … but we look out for each other Being a good leader means you don’t stand by as another person falls into depression, despair, or worse. We are all our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, which means we all must reach out when we see someone in trouble. Here, Allan B. Head, chair of the Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services, gives us some signs to look out for, a reminder that compassion is essential to leadership and to the legal profession, and an important lesson we can take away from a popular cartoon. Back to Top Copyright American Bar Association. http://www.abanet.org
May - June 2003 Volume 27 Number 5
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Cover stories:
Reading, leading, and listening: Bars link lawyers with kids
Every day and all across the country, lawyers are linking with schoolchildren, under the auspices of their bar associations. Whether they read stories to kindergarteners, take high school students on college tours, or just offer friendship and support, these volunteers find they’ve made a real connection and maybe even changed a life. Get inspired as you read about some of these bar programs and how they benefit students and volunteers alike.
In print and online, bars reach out to kids
In a previous issue, we explored how bars are trying to correct adults’ misperceptions of lawyers. Here’s a look at how some are reshaping those ideas early on, by reaching out to children with information, guidance, and a good dose of fun. Through Web sites, newspapers, coloring books, and even trading cards, these bar associations and foundations teach kids about their legal rights and about the law as a profession, which just might help shatter some stereotypes before they even start.
Bars resist sales tax on legal services
Faced with tight budgets, many states are again considering putting a tax on legal services. See how bars are trying to prevent this by working together and with other professional groups. What has worked in the past, and what might the future hold? Also included is information on how you can get involved.
We are a strange herd … but we look out for each other
Being a good leader means you don’t stand by as another person falls into depression, despair, or worse. We are all our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, which means we all must reach out when we see someone in trouble. Here, Allan B. Head, chair of the Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services, gives us some signs to look out for, a reminder that compassion is essential to leadership and to the legal profession, and an important lesson we can take away from a popular cartoon.
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