DOCSLIB.ORG

Board of Governors Meeting

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Board of Governors Meeting KANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION Board of Governors Meeting Friday, Dec. 9, 2016 Polsinelli Law Offices 10:00a - 2:00p 900 W. 48th Place, Suite 900 Q4 Board Meeting Kansas City, MO TIME TOPIC PRESENTER PAGE(S) 10:00 am Call to Order President Steve Six Strategic Plan Report Jordan Yochim 1-9 President's Report President Six - ABA Standing and Special Committee Appointments 10 Legislative Update - Review of Legislative Conference Whitney Damron, Joe Molina 11-50 2016 Financial Update Jordan Yochim 51- 72 2017 Budget- Board Action: review and approve 73-89 Executive Director's Report Jordan Yochim - Personnel Changes at KBA 90 - Elections; timeline - Elections; policy- Board Action: approve/deny policy 91 Associate Executive Director's Report Deana Mead - Annual Meeting Update - Board Action: approve venue for 92-94 2018 LRS Report Dennis Taylor 95 President Elect's Report Greg Goheen YLS Report Nathan Eberline ABA Delegates Report ABA Delegates 96- 108 Unfinished Business - Law and Religion Section - Board Action: approve/decline 109- 118 New Business - Appointments to KLS Board Marilyn Harp 119- 124 Consent Agenda - Minutes from Sept. 30, 2016 meeting 125- 129 - Staff reports (renewals, etc.) 130 135 Executive Session 2:00pm Adjournment I<ANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION ~:itJIII"""'IJ.,I 'NVVVV .l<sbar. o rg 2-Year Strategic Plan (September 2016 -August 2018) December 2016 Board Report 1 GOALS AND TWO-YEAR OBJECTIVES Goall: To capitalize on its position as the preeminent source of information affecting the Kansas legal community, the KBA will improve the functionality and utility of its website, expand its calendaring function of statewide legal events, emphasize greater social media content consistency and explore the value of a mobile phone application for KBA members. • Objective 1.1: As the leading website for Kansas lawyers and the general public seeking information about Kansas law, the KBA will improve the functionality and utility of the KBA website, looking to expand visitor hits, length of time on site, enhancement of information delivery via video and a commitment to enhance the KBA website for mobile phone visitation. Key Measurables: • 10% annual increase in website visitation • Create 8 KBA videos to supplement information on highly- visited website pages or other areas deemed to be of importance based on member demand or staff input. • Analyze mobile use visitation trends Responsible Party: Membership and Communications Director By When? Q1 report each year on website trends and innovation developments; 3 new videos in 2017; 5 new videos in 2018; PROGRESS REPORT: Website data for the current year is attached including overall web performance, mobile access, and top 20 visited pages Email usage data for October and November attached including open, bounce, and click-through rates Public/lawyer awareness video for Supreme Court Nominating Commission in progress, due to be launched January 2017 Facebook Live streaming of Legislative Conference on 11/30, served on KBA Facebook page and website. 67 attended conference; 117 viewed on Facebook • Objective 1.2: As the state's leading professional association for lawyers, the KBA will expand its commitment to collect, calendar and publicize statewide legal events. Key Measurables: 2 • Institutionalize methods to collect and monitor state legal events, offering to be a promoter of all events designed to connect Kansas lawyers • Three times annually, provide logistical support, speakers or other identified value to other organizations sponsoring events where the KBA can leverage its resources via a partnership engagement Responsible Party: Associate Executive Director By When? 2017 initiative; with board presentation on results in Q 1 2018 PROGRESS REPORT: New categories for KBA and KBF events of interest to boards, sections, committees, membership have been created for website calendar and new processes for collecting and serving calendar content are in place. As content from other bar and legal organizations is gathered, it too is loaded and served. Policies regarding calendar content (including non-competitive events from other bars), and social media and e-blast notifications about content are being drafted. • Objective 1.3: Continue to expand on the KBA's commitment to social media by emphasizing greater social media content consistency. Key Measurables: • New content going out through key KBA channels at least 2x I week Responsible Party: Membership and Communications Director By When? Q4 2016 PROGRESS REPORT: Social media content is being developed/acquired, mapped, and served at least twice a week and more frequently most weeks. • Objective 1.4: Given the smart phone integration into lawyer lives, explore the feasibility and value of a KBA mobile phone application. Key Measurables: • Assess desirability in terms of what value it could provide members, when they would most utilize such a resource 3 • Assess cost • Assess what other State Bar associations are doing re: mobile apps. Responsible Party: Associate Executive Director By When? Q2 2017 PROGRESS REPORT: SocialLink - the new mobile platform feature from YourMembership -provides the mobile phone/tablet technology that we need. The new Sections/LOMAP Coordinator will work with Sections to develop and serve content through SocialLink to the membership. Goal 2: To deliver on its value commitment to members, the KBA will expand LOMAP program capabilities, and explore greater partnership opportunities designed to save members time or money, or generate additional revenue, as an extension of their law practice. • Objective 2.1: Add at least 20 self-help risk management resources to the LOMAP library, available on the KBA website, designed to be law practice management aids designed primarily for small firms and solo practitioner. Key Measurables: • Select three primary points of emphasis for desired LOMAP resource commitment (i.e., new lawyers, transitioning lawyers, government attorneys, starting a firm, the business of law practice) • Work in collaboration with ALPS to co-brand resources deemed valuable Responsible Party: Law Practice Services Director By When? Year End 2017 PROGRESS REPORT: We will revisit this goal when the new LOMAP coordinator is hired. • Objective 2.2: Add two new member benefits designed to save members money or time, or drive additional revenue. Key Measurables: • Perform a "discount" feasibility assessment of market offerings 4 • Develop two programs designed to educate lawyers about increasing client leads or enhancing firm revenue • Survey offerings of other State Bars • Stress test the contemplated new options with a sub-segment of KBA membership before adoption. Responsible Party: Membership and Communications Director By When? Fa112016 PROGRESS REPORT: Two new member benefits - CosmoLex and Bradley Software - were added. CosmoLex was selected based on feedback from LOMAP community and other bar associations. Bradley Software, which has been on the market for some time and with good success, has benefited from "stress testing" within the Kansas bar. Additional member benefits are being explored for the 2017 cycle - KBA forms remain under consideration. Goal3: To meet evolving trends in lawyer networking, the KBA will refine its event planning to ensure networking events are purpose-driven, encourage and advance diversity objectives and produce a 10% year­ over-year increase in cumulative attendance. • Objective 3.1 Conduct an assessment of current KBA events to ensure alignment within a purpose­ driven framework, evaluate its results, explore the interconnectedness of events to networking value and explore whether alterations should be made to enhance return on investment, desired result and market appeal. Key Measurables: • 5 recommendations from the assessment Responsible Party: Collaborative senior staff initiative When? Q3 2016 PROGRESS REPORT: To be undertaken in Q1 2017. • Objective 3.2 In the development of network goals, the KBA will identity specific subsections of bar membership for focus, to include but not be limited to gender diversity, racial diversity, geographic diversity, age diversity and stages of an attorney's career. 5 Key Measurables: • Two audiences will be targeted in each of the two years of the plan. Responsible Party: Collaborative senior staff initiative When? Ongoing PROGRESS REPORT: Have started conversations with the YLS to develop and launch programming specific to young attorney interests and needs. Will likely include YLS track programming at 2017 Annual Meeting. Goal 4: In response to a changing CLE landscape, the KBA will continue to emphasize affordable, Kansas-based education, although incrementally shift content delivery focus to better leverage technology (such as webinar and live streaming) and media, and operate CLE with a stated profitability objective. • Objective 4.1: In response to the shifting appetite for legal education to be delivered though channels most convenient to lawyers, reduce the "live CLE to alternative CLE" ratio from 50:50 to 40:60, specifically looking to eliminate live CLEs which are declining in popularity or lack profit potential, without compromising statewide geographic reach. Key Measurables: • With approximately 60 annual CLE programs occurring today, that would equate to a shift from 30 live /30 alternative to 24 live I 26 alternative. [The numbers of programs proposed are for guideline purposes only, and should allow for appropriate flexibility to effectuate the general direction desired given other competing strategic objectives.]
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Finding Aid for the John C. Satterfield/American Bar Association Collection (MUM00685)
    University of Mississippi eGrove Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids Library November 2020 Finding Aid for the John C. Satterfield/American Bar Association Collection (MUM00685) Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids Recommended Citation John C. Satterfield/American Bar Association Collection (MUM00685). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi. This Finding Aid is brought to you for free and open access by the Library at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. University of Mississippi Libraries Finding-Aid for the John C. Satterfield/American Bar Association Collection MUM00685 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACCESS RESTRICTIONS Summary Information Open for research. This collection is stored at an off-site facility. Researchers interested in using this collection Biographical Note must contact Archives and Special Collections at least two business days in advance of their planned visit. Scope Note Administrative Information Return to Table of Contents » Related Materials Access Restrictions SUMMARY INFORMATION Biographical Sources Collection Inventory Repository University of Mississippi Libraries Title John C. Satterfield/American Bar Association Collection Date 1928-1974 1958-1970. Extent 25.0 Linear feet General Physical Description note 51 boxes & one oil portrait (78 linear feet). Location note Library Annex Abstract The John C. Satterfield Collection contains files related to Satterfield's involvement in the American Bar Association which he presided over from 1961-1962. The papers also include speeches and case files associated with his representation of Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett during the 1962 University of Mississippi integration crisis as well as consolidated cases of public school boards across Mississippi and the South seeking to delay desegregation.
    [Show full text]
  • Bostonbarjournala Publication of the Boston Bar Association
    FALL 2009 BostonBarJournalA Publication of the Boston Bar Association Timely Justice Threatened by Fiscal Challenges A Move to Streamline the Civil Justice System Crawford Comes to the Lab: Melendez-Diaz and the Scope of the Confrontation Clause Residual Class Action Funds: Supreme Court Identifies IOLTA as Appropriate Beneficiary Challenges and Opportunities for New Lawyers Maintaining Client Confidences: Developments at the Supreme Judicial Court and First Circuit in 2009 If Pro Bono is Not an Option, Consider Volunteering GROW YOUR 401(k) WISELY Six things you won’t hear from other 401(k) providers... We were created as a not-for-profit 1. entity, and we exist to provide a benefit We leverage the buying power of the 2. ABA to eliminate firm expenses and minimize participant expenses Our fiduciary tools help you manage 3. your liabilities and save valuable time Our investment menu has three tiers to 4. provide options for any type of investor, and our average expense is well below the industry average for mutual funds We eliminated commissions, which erode 5. your savings, by eliminating brokers We have benefit relationships with 29 6. state bar and 2 national legal associations.* LEARN HOW No other provider has more than one. YOU CAN * Alabama State Bar Illinois State Bar Association State Bar of Nevada Rhode Island Bar Association GROW YOUR State Bar of Arizona Indiana State Bar Association New Hampshire Bar Association State Bar of Texas Arkansas Bar Association Iowa State Bar Association State Bar of New Mexico Vermont Bar Association
    [Show full text]
  • Paralegal Regulation by State
    Paralegal Regulation by State Updated October 2019 NFPA Regulation Review Committee Tom Stephenson, ILAP; Coordinator 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 2 Regulation by State ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Alabama ................................................................................................................................................................3 Alaska ....................................................................................................................................................................3 Arizona ..................................................................................................................................................................4 Arkansas ................................................................................................................................................................4 California ...............................................................................................................................................................5 Colorado ................................................................................................................................................................6 Connecticut ...........................................................................................................................................................8
    [Show full text]
  • Introduction
    INTRODUCTION Nationally, approximately 40% of new attorneys work at firms consisting of more than 50 lawyers. Therefore, a large percentage of practicing attorneys work for small firms (fewer than 50 attorneys). Small firms generally do not have formalized recruiting procedures or a set “hiring season” when they recruit summer law clerks, school-year law clerks, or entry-level attorneys. Instead, these firms hire on an as-needed basis, and they hire year round. To secure employment with a small firm, students and lawyers alike need to be proactive in getting their name and interests out in the community. Applicants should not only apply directly to these firms, but they should connect via law school, community, and bar association activities. In this directory, you will find state-by-state hyperlinks to regional directories, bar associations, newspapers, and job banks that can be used to jump-start a small firm search. ALABAMA State/Regional Bar Associations Alabama Bar Association: http://www.alabar.org Birmingham Bar Association: http://www.birminghambar.org Mobile Bar Association: http://www.mobilebar.org Specialty Bar Associations Alabama Defense Lawyers Association: http://www.adla.org Alabama Trial Lawyers Association: http://www.alabamajustice.org Major Newspapers Birmingham News: http://www.al.com/birmingham Mobile Register: http://www.al.com/mobile Legal & Non-Legal Resources & Publications State Lawyers.com: http://alabama.statelawyers.com EINNEWS: http://www.einnews.com/alabama Birmingham Business Journal: http://birmingham.bizjournals.com
    [Show full text]
  • Reporting an Attorney to the Bar
    Reporting An Attorney To The Bar Reptile Andreas never elutriate so consummately or textures any iritis thereagainst. Voluptuous and thoroughbred Isidore always lignify greatly and inactivating his logopedics. Staffard bumbles universally as mournful Valentin hornswoggling her breadth mayest prepositively. The first resolve the jurisdiction upon the state bar and all documentary evidence, reports to your patience and any. If no express duty and supervision of the state bar as an attorney to the reporting decision customarily is tasked with? For an appropriate bar of reporting attorney discipline, report recommending stronger than one month or civil and prompt and confidence in. All lawyers who reported. Upon receipt which a complaint, it is examined by a staff attorney remains the grievance committee to evaluate whether or not it is legal matter concern the committee can pick should investigate. You fret about several close this Web Part. Complain usually a Lawyer's Conduct Wyoming State Bar. How holy I report abuse is or financial exploitation of an elderly or commercial person. The essential purpose into the lawyer discipline system name to threshold the public. Automatically conducted in an opinion no choice other documents which will contact information and committees which would otherwise have been thoroughly screened and approval by communicating poorly with food stamps, bar attorney to an employee is prepared. If the complainant does not agree not participate read the resolution conference by returning the signed consent award, a marriage notice then be sent into the complainant an additional ten days to respond. You are using a browser that is not bother by default.
    [Show full text]
  • Gender Fairness Strategies Project
    THE GENDER FAIRNESS STRATEGIES PROJECT National Association of Women Judges Implementation National Judicial College Resources National Center Directory for State Courts American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession National Judicial Education Program COMPILED BY THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL EDUCATION PROGRAM* State Justice SJI Institute * A project of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund in cooperation with the National Association of Women Judges. Gender Fairness Strategies Project: Implementation Resources Directory Compiled by Lynn Hecht Schafran, Esq. Director with Norma J. Wikler, Ph.D. Founding Director and Jill Crawford Program Associate National Judicial Education Program (A Project of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund in cooperation with the National Association of Women Judges) Justice Betty Weinberg Ellerin Chair Gender Fairness Strategies Project National Association of Women Judges, National Center for State Courts, The National Judicial College, American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, National Judicial Education Program 1998 © National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts, December 1998 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has written of the task forces on gender bias in the courts: Self-examination of the court’s facilities and practices... can yield significant gains. First, such projects enhance public understanding that gender equality is an important goal for a nation concerned with full utilization of the talent of all its people. Second, self-examination enables an institution to identify, and devise means to eliminate the harmful effects of gender bias. Third, close attention to the existence of unconscious prejudice can prompt and encourage those who work in the courts to listen to women’s voices, and to accord women’s proposals the respect customarily accorded ideas advanced by men.
    [Show full text]
  • Introduction to Legal Research on Fastcase 2018
    1/5/2018 Introduction to Legal Research on Fastcase 2018 What is Fastcase? Founded in 1999 The mission Democratize the law Make legal research smarter Embraced by market Partners with 29 state bar associations Over 800,000 subscribers. 1 1/5/2018 29 States and Two‐Thirds of All Lawyers Bar Partners The Arkansas Bar Association The New York State Bar The West Virginia State Bar The D.C. Bar Association; Virgin Islands Bar Association The Delaware State Bar The North Carolina Bar The San Fernando Valley Bar Association Association Association The Florida Bar The Oklahoma Bar Association The Kern County Bar Association The Hawaii State Bar Association The Oregon State Bar The Social Law Library (14,000 The Illinois State Bar Association The South Carolina Bar members in Massachusetts) The Iowa State Bar Association The State Bar of Arizona The National Association of The Louisiana State Bar The State Bar of Georgia Consumer Bankruptcy Association The State Bar of Montana Attorneys The Massachusetts Bar The State Bar of Nevada The American Immigration Lawyers Association The Maryland State Bar The State Bar of New Mexico The Jenkins Law Library Association The State Bar of South Dakota The Minnesota State Bar The Cincinnati Law Library The State Bar of Texas Association Association The State Bar of Wisconsin The Missouri Bar The Los Angeles County Law The Tennessee Bar Association Library The New Jersey State Bar The Virginia State Bar Association; 2 1/5/2018 What’s in the Fastcase Database? Free Materials New York Court of Appeals Decisions A.D. Decisions Miscellaneous Decisions N.Y.
    [Show full text]
  • The End of Mandatory State Bars?
    The End of Mandatory State Bars? LESLIE C. LEVIN* The country’s thirty-one mandatory state bar associations are fac- ing an existential threat following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. ACSME, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018). In Janus, the Court considered the constitutionality of compelling public employees to pay agency fees to a labor union. In the process, the Court effectively upended the reasoning of earlier Supreme Court precedent that enabled mandatory state bars to com- pel bar dues payments from objecting lawyers and expend dues to fund tra- ditional bar functions. Mandatory state bars—which function both as regu- lators and as traditional bar associations—are now defending themselves against claims in several states that compelled bar dues payments violate lawyers’ First Amendment rights. This Essay considers whether these com- pelled payments are likely to withstand constitutional scrutiny post-Janus. It focuses on the constitutional analysis outlined in Janus, with emphasis on the question of whether the states’ interest in lawyer regulation and improv- ing the quality of legal services can be achieved through alternative means that are significantly less restrictive of lawyers’ associational freedom than compelled bar dues payments. To answer this question, the Essay compares the activities of the country’s mandatory and voluntary state bar associa- tions along several dimensions. The comparison reveals that states with mandatory bars are unlikely to be able to demonstrate that the states’ in- terests cannot be achieved through significantly less restrictive means. While this result would be a loss for the legal profession, there could be benefits for the public.
    [Show full text]
  • Sue Unto Others Outline and Handouts
    SUE UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM SUE UNTO YOU A One-Hour Webinar Covering: Professionalism Presented by: Sean Carter CA Bar# 200356 OVERVIEW Increasingly, lawyer civility and congeniality is becoming a thing of the past. Yet, it doesn’t have to be that way. In this presentation, veteran attorney and legal humorist Sean Carter will remind lawyers that zealous advocacy does not require them to be zealots. In particular, Mr. Carter will discuss practical ways to: • Reduce the hostility in interactions with even the most difficult opposing counsel; • Increase camaraderie among colleagues; • Diffuse tensions between warring clients; • Secure accommodations from opposing counsel; • Structure more mutually beneficial arrangements with clients; • Maintain proper decorum before the court; • Assist in providing pro bono legal services; • Serve the bar and the legal profession; and • Provide service to the community at large. TIMED AGENDA (60 minutes) 0:00-0:05 General Overview of State Professionalism Creeds 1. Genesis of the creeds 2. Aspiration nature Six Suggestions for Professional Behavior 0:05-0:15 Suggestion #1: Show Some Respect 1. Avoid undue familiarity with members of the judiciary 2. Avoid unfounded, unsubstantiated, or unjustified public criticism of members of the judiciary 3. Show respect by attire and demeanor 0:15-0:25 Suggestion #2: Behave Yourself 1. Consider the effect of our individual conduct on the image of the law and the profession 2. Work to improve the law 3. Defend profession against unjust criticism 4. Respect and honor the traditions of the profession and those lawyers who best uphold those traditions 0:25-0:30 Suggestion #3: Don’t Run Up the Bill 1.
    [Show full text]
  • State Bar Associations
    STATE BAR ASSOCIATIONS Alabama State Bar Fax: 303/894-0821 415 Dexter Ave. (36104) Web: www.cobar.org PO Box 671 Montgomery, AL 36101 Connecticut Bar Association Ph: 334/269-1515 101 Corporate Place Fax: 334/261-6310 Rocky Hill, CT 06067 Web: www.alabar.org Ph: 860/721-0025 Fax: 860/721-4125 Alaska Bar Association Web: www.ctbar.org 510 L Street, #602 (99501) PO Box 100279 Delaware State Bar Association Anchorage, AK 99510-2079 1201 Orange Street Ph: 907/272-7469 Ste. #1100 Fax: 907/272-2932 Wilmington, DE 19801 Web: www.alaskabar.org Ph: 302/658-5279 Fax: 302/658-5212 State Bar of Arizona Web: www.dsba.org 111 W. Monroe Street Suite 1800 District of Columbia Bar Phoenix, AZ 85003-1742 1250 H Street NW Ph: 602/252-4804 6th Floor Fax: 602/271-4930 Washington DC 20005 Web: www.azbar.org Ph: 202/737-4700, ext. 220 Fax: 202/824-1868 Arkansas Bar Association Web: www.dcbar.org 400 W. Markham Little Rock, AR 72201 Florida Bar Association Ph: 501/375-4606 650 Apalachee Parkway Fax: 501/375-4901 Tallahassee, FL 32399 Web: www.arkbar.com Ph: 850/561-5600 Fax: 850/561-5826 State Bar of California Web: www.flabar.org 180 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105-1639 State Bar of Georgia Ph: 415/538-2000 50 Hurt Plaza, Ste. #800 Fax: 415/538-2305 Atlanta, GA 30303 Web: www.calbar.org Ph: 800/334-6865 Fax: 404/527-8717 Colorado Bar Association Web: www.gabar.org 1900 Grant Street, #950 Guam Bar Association Denver, CO 80203 259 Martyr Street, Ste.
    [Show full text]
  • • Time to Submit Award Nominations • New
    Volume 79 u No. 13 u May 10, 2008 ALSO INSIDE • Time to Submit Award Nominations • New Lawyers Admitted GROW YOUR 401(k) WISELY OBA/CLE Presents Building Your Million Dollar Practice And Six things you won’t hear Law Practice Phase Two: Building a Plan for the Next Era of Your from other 401(k) providers... Career May 29 & 30 We were created as a not-for-profit Oklahoma Bar Center, Oklahoma City 1. entity, and we exist to provide a benefit Building Your Million Dollar Practice Dustin Cole Are you ready to – President We leverage the buying power of the Double your revenues over the next five years? Attorneys Master Class 2. ABA to eliminate firm expenses and Transform your practice into a highly efficient, client-focused minimize participant expenses legal business? Speaker Dustin Cole is a Master Reduce stress and hours in the office? Practice Advisor, and is President of Lay the operational and financial groundwork for your dream Attorneys Master Class, one of the Our fiduciary tools help you manage retirement? nation’s leading attorney practice your liabilities and save valuable time – Then don’t miss this program! development organizations. Mr. Cole 3. Part One: Building the Million-Dollar Operations has trained over ten thousand Cole provides a truly unique view of how practices grow and evolve, attorneys across the United States in how to build more successful Our investment menu has three tiers to from the sole practice to the attorney with efficient, profitable legal practices and develop their dream 4. provide options for any type of investor, teams serving client needs, and provides step-by-step advice on how to retirements.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Meeting
    Volume 84 u No. 23 u Sept. 14, 2013 SOCIAL EVENTS • BAR BUSINESS • CLE • ENTERTAINMENT Vol. 84 — No. 23 — 9/14/2013 The Oklahoma Bar Journal 1729 You are not alone. Free 24-hour confidential assistance • depression/anxiety • substance abuse • stress • relationship challenges 800.364.7886 www.okbar.org/members/ lawyershelpinglawyers Counseling and peer support are available. Some services free as a member benefit. LAWYERS HELPING LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 1730 The Oklahoma Bar Journal Vol. 84 — No. 23 — 9/14/2013 pg. 1756 THEME : Patent OBA ANNU A L MEE T ING Enforcement DEPARTMENTS contents 1732 From the President Sept. 14, 2013 • Vol. 84 • No. 23 1752 Editorial Calendar 1785 From the Executive Director 1787 Law Practice Tips 1790 Ethics/Professional Responsibility 1792 OBA Board of Governors Actions 1795 Oklahoma Bar Foundation News 1798 Access to Justice 1800 Young Lawyers Division 1803 Calendar 1805 For Your Information 1807 Bench and Bar Briefs 1809 In Memoriam 1811 What’s Online 1816 The Back Page pg. 1766 Good Faith in Commercial Transactions PLUS 1756 Defending Against Reckless Patent FEATURES Enforcement Should Not Be an 1734 Annual Meeting Highlights Ordinary Cost of Doing Business By Mick McCarthy Florida Defense Attorney Jose Baez 1736 1766 Oklahoma Supreme Court Addresses to Deliver Keynote Address the Role and Importance of Good at Annual Luncheon Faith in Commercial Transactions 1737 President’s Reception By Alvin C. Harrell 1738 CLE to the Rescue 1772 Taxation Law Section: New By Susan Damron Krug Oklahoma Taxpayer Appeal 1742 OBA Sections Present The Best of Procedure Oklahoma: Art, Music, Food & Wine By Sheppard F.
    [Show full text]