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Dear Fellow Virginia State Bar Member: in This Survey Issue of The Dear Fellow Virginia State Bar Member: In this survey issue of the Virginia Lawyer are descriptions of all the pro- grams and activities of our Virginia State Bar, some of which you may already be familiar with. (Section begins on page 13.) Others may be new to you. We have also provided a breakdown of how your dues dollar is spent, a feature which we intend to repeat regularly. We are now preparing the bar’s budget for the coming year. The surplus which funded the dues discount we have enjoyed for the past four years is exhausted, and the members of Bar Council must decide the appropriate level of dues for the next several years. In making that determination, we are looking at all activities of the bar, assessing the costs and benefits of each, and considering whether our resources are being properly allo- cated among them. Although each of the bar’s programs has previously been approved by our elected circuit representatives on Bar Council, the Budget and Finance Committee felt that each member of the bar should be offered the opportunity to comment on which programs are most important and which have been most beneficial to you and other members of the bar. We also want to know if there are areas in which you believe the bar can be more responsive and helpful to you, either by expanding services under existing programs or offering new ones (recognizing, of course, that expansion or new programs usually cost money). And if you believe that some programs provide little or no benefit to you, to the public, or to other Virginia lawyers, let us know about those, too. To get your input, we have included a survey form on the preceding page for you to complete and return. Before completing the survey, please read the program descriptions in this magazine and, if you wish, get the thoughts of other lawyers in your community. We’ve tried to make the survey form short, but don’t feel restricted by it. If you want to attach more detailed comments, feel free to do so. We want to know what you think. Our primary responsibility involves regulating the profession. Enforcing the disciplinary rules and MCLE requirements may not be particularly popular jobs, but they are essential to maintain the confidence of the public in our profession. Our other main responsibilities include improving legal services to the public and improving the legal profession itself (including the judiciary). Let us know what we’re doing well and what needs improvement, and tell us your suggestions about changes which should be made. Thanks for your time. Your comments will be helpful as the Bar Council decides how and to what extent the State Bar can best serve its members and the public as we approach the new century. Sincerely, William D. Cremins Chair Budget and Finance Committee Your Virginia State Bar by W. Scott Street III 1999–2000 VSB President What exactly does the Virginia State Bar do? How are my dues Three years ago we decided to spend down our reserve of dollars spent? How do my Virginia bar dues compare to the dues unspent past dues by reducing our current annual dues and paid by lawyers in other states? These questions and ones like using the reserve to supply the difference between current dues them are frequently asked, particularly at this time of year when income and the operating budget. Since then Bill Cremins and we have just written our dues checks. The following pages con- the other volunteers serving on the Budget and Finance tain answers. Committee assure us that they have scrutinized every budget expenditure to be certain that each is necessary and that there is As you will see from the information that follows, expenses of no “fluff.” Our staff have also suggested and implemented a operating our disciplinary system account for almost sixty per- number of cost-saving ideas. These efforts by volunteers and cent of the State Bar’s budget. The balance funds our bar’s other staff have kept our current dues low. Because our accumulated programs and activities through which we perform our responsi- dues reserve will be essentially exhausted by June 2000, the rep- bilities of assisting the professional development of lawyers, resentatives on Bar Council must now decide the proper level improving the delivery of legal services to the public, and for current dues thereafter. Before doing so, Council wants your improving our profession and the administration of justice. The opinion on which of the bar’s programs and activities you amount of dues necessary to fund each activity has been set out believe are most valuable, which need improvement or perhaps separately. When a staff member works in more than one area, total reassessment, and whether there are other things you think his or her expenses have been allocated among those areas in the bar should be doing but is not (keeping in mind, of course, proportion to the amount of time spent on each. Administrative our mission and our role as a state agency). expenses and overhead also have been prorated. At the front of this issue there is a survey form and a letter from The programs are described by volunteers who are active partici- Budget and Finance Committee chair Bill Cremins, asking for pants in those programs. One thing immediately evident is the your input to Council. After you have reviewed the program fact that, while we have excellent and essential support staff, the descriptions in the following section, please complete the survey bar relies on the time and efforts of volunteers—lawyers like and return it to the Bar office. There’s also a copy of the survey us—to develop policy, to guide the direction of the bar, and to on the Virginia State Bar web site (www.vsb.org) which you can carry out its programs. Our disciplinary system, even with its print and mail to me at the bar offices. staff investigators and attorneys, is directed and governed by the volunteer members of the Committee on Lawyer Discipline Thanks for your time, your evaluations, and your suggestions. (COLD), and its work is carried out by the hundreds of volun- teers serving throughout the state on district committees and the Disciplinary Board. Virginia Lawyer 2 FY 2000 Revenue Breakout Mandatory Dues $4,365,270 1 Mandatory Dues Registration fees 570,140 2 Voluntary professional dues or registration fees including Section membership dues, User fees & sales 360,630 Professional Corporation registration and renewal fees, CRESPA registration fees, Meeting & Course registrations 296,515 Lawyer Referral member dues, and Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Accredited Fines & Penalties 231,000 and Individual Sponsor fees. Total Revenue $5,823,555 3 User fees and sales including advertising and subscription revenues from the Virginia Lawyer/Register magazines, Lawyer Referral consultation fees, and mailing label and 5 4 pamphlet sales. 3 4 Meeting and course registrations including the Mandatory Professionalism Course, Annual and Midyear Meetings, Bar Leadership Institute, Pro Bono Conference, Young Lawyers Conference and miscellaneous Section seminars. 2 5 Fines and Penalties including Past and Penalty dues, Professional Regulation cost tax- ing and Mandatory Continuing Legal Education late filing and reinstatement fees. 1 Dues Dollars Needed to Fund Current Programs 15 18 1 Professional Regulation $2,815,685 14 16 2 Membership 249,775 12 17 3 Mandatory Continuing Legal Education 195,560 13 4 Professionalism Course (includes Standing Committee) 36,955 11 5 Publications (includes Publications Committee) 538,700 9 6 Council, Officers and Budget & Finance Committee 433,000 8 10 7 7 Attorney General’s Costs 35,000 8 Resolution of Fee Disputes (Fee Disputes Committee) 9,000 9 Clients’ Protection Fund (CPF Board) 32,380 10 Access to Legal Services 143,070 6 11 Local Bar 116,830 12 Lawyer Referral (includes Lawyer Referral Committee) 31,220 13 Young Lawyers 129,205 14 Annual & Midyear Meetings (includes Seminars Committee) 51,125 1 15 Lawyers Helping Lawyers 50,000 16 Insurance Programs (Personal & Malpractice) 15,200 5 17 General Administrative 195,145 18 Special Committees (see below) 13,180 Total $5,091,030 Special Committees include: 4 3 Alternative Dispute Resolution Media, Bench-Bar Relations 2 Bench Bar Relations Cooperation with Affiliated Professions Improving Lawyer Image Judicial Nominations Study Computer Needs Virginia Lawyer 3 How Does Virginia Compare Nationally? Unified Bars Ranked by Dues/Fees Name of Bar Membership Budget Dues/Fees 1. Alaska 3,290 $1,745,000 $450 2. Texas 63,633 $30,282,477 $435 3. Hawaii 5,892 $973,000 $430 4. Nevada 5,435 $2,578,421 $375 5. Oregon 13,387 $7,353,000 $3661 6. District of Columbia 68,105 $10,594,520 $362 7. Utah 6,500 $2,918,693 $360 8. Rhode Island 4,796 $1,532,198 $350 9. New Hampshire 4,708 $1,900,000 $330 10. Arizona 14,798 $7,412,536 $320 11. New Mexico 5,290 $1,767,450 $315 12. South Dakota 2,315 $625,000 $315 13. Washington 20,287 $10,800,000 $291 14. North Dakota 1,718 $607,332 $288 15. Idaho 3,684 $1,321,865 $285 16. Wisconsin 19,300 $8,900,000 $279 17. Alabama 11,531 $3,183,699 $2752 18. Louisiana 17,324 $3,025,000 $265 19. Michigan 31,787 $7,526,195 $260 20. Nebraska 8,581 $1,609,537 $250 21. Wyoming 2,350 $568,358 $230 22. North Carolina 16,341 $2,790,090 $2253 23. Georgia 28,157 $4,752,692 $220 24. Mississippi 6,000 $1,954,000 $210 25.
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