Sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services and the Division for Bar Services, the ABA Bar Leadership Institute is the premier program for developing the skills and substantive grounding for leading a bar association with inspiration, insight and innovation. Completion of the program will provide you with a framework for addressing the issues that lie ahead, and help you implement a successful presidential year.

Through plenary sessions and workshop sessions, participants explore the keys to successful stewardship of bar associations both large and small, unified and voluntary. The official 2008 program is available

Handouts from many of the 2008 BLI plenary sessions and workshops are now available. You will also find information from the BLI Resource Table and order forms for books written by BLI speakers.

If you had your photo taken with ABA President-Elect Tommy H. Wells and ABA Executive Director Henry F. White on Thursday afternoon, please visit www.2008ABALeadershipInstitute.shutterfly.com for a gallery of photos of you and your BLI classmates. In order to view the photos, you will have to enter a case-sensitive password: ABABLI2008. Photos are arranged alphabetically by state name and can be searched for by bar association name. If you have any questions about the news release or your photo (if you had one taken), please contact Aminah Bhatti at 312/988-5349 or bhattia@staff.abanet.org

The ABA Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services and the ABA Division for Bar Services would like to thank all of the sponsors of the 2008 Bar Leadership Institute.