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The Future Is Coming!
The Oregon State Bar will host a special Conference on the Future of the Legal Profession on Friday, September 12, at the Riverhouse in Bend. This conference will feature Keynote speaker Glen Hiemstra of www.futurist.com and Professor Ana Maria Merico of the University of Arizona College of Law. It will also include sessions on diversity & demographics, changing law practice and the future of the courts, as well as a
vendor fair/trade show and an evening reception.
More details will be available soon at www.osbar.org and in the July issue of the Bulletin.
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Board of Governors and Other Groups Seek Public Members
The Oregon State Bar is recruiting members of the public (non-lawyers) to serve on various committees and boards. Public member opportunities for 2009 include one OSB Board of Governors position and several openings on various committees, disciplinary process boards and the House of Delegates.
If you know someone who may be interested in serving as a public member on one of these groups, please encourage him or her to apply. Applications are due on Friday, June 20, and are available on the bar’s website.
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Make the Lawyer Referral Service Part Of Your Marketing Plan
The Lawyer Referral Service (LRS) has a simple job: putting the public in touch with you, the lawyer in private practice. The LRS strives to provide you and your future clients with extraordinary service, delivered with the utmost respect and professionalism.
To you, the LRS acts as an extension of your law office and marketing efforts. Instead of bringing you clients randomly like other forms of marketing, LRS strives to get the exact type of clients you serve referred to you. And while traditional yellow pages advertising may be falling out of favor with the public, LRS call volume and online referral requests are booming. Unlike other advertising, you can easily know exactly how many clients you receive from the LRS. Moreover, you are only paying about $8 per month or less to receive that next big case.
Registration for the July 2008 – June 2009 year is currently underway. Visit the Lawyer Referral Service webpage for more information and to download the registration form.
Don’t miss this chance to connect with clients who are out
looking for you.
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Recognizing the Best of the Best of Us
The OSB Board of Governors and
the Oregon Bench and Bar Commission
on Professionalism are seeking
nominations for their annual
awards. The bar presents the
Award of Merit, President’s Awards (Public Service, Membership Service and Affirmative Action) and the Wallace P. Carson, Jr., Award for Judicial Excellence. The professionalism commission presents the Edwin J. Peterson Award. Please help us honor our most outstanding lawyers and judges by nominating your deserving colleagues for these awards.
Nominations must be postmarked or delivered by 5:00 p.m. Friday, August 8, 2008 by U.S. mail: Oregon State Bar, Attn: Kay Pulju, 16037 S.W. Upper Boones Ferry Rd., Tigard, OR 97224; email: kpulju@osbar.org; or fax: (503) 598-6987. The nomination forms may be downloaded from the bar website.
Nominations will not be accepted after this date. For further assistance, contact Kay at (503) 431-6402 or 800-452-8260, ext. 402. |
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Oregon State Bar Wins International Award
The international Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) has announced that the Oregon State Bar received one of only 15 annual awards granted to competitors representing more than 300 organizations.
An Award for Outstanding Achievement was given to the Oregon State Bar for the BarBooks™ online library in the Best Use of Technology category.
ACLEA members are professionals in the fields of continuing legal education and legal publishing. Its annual awards are highly competitive and winning projects represent the highest level of achievement for the staff and volunteers involved.
BarBooks™ is an online subscription library of all of the publications published
by the bar’s Legal Publications Department. The online library is fully searchable
and includes almost 2000 forms that can be downloaded in either Microsoft Word
or Corel WordPerfect format. Subscribers can bookmark favorite sections, chapters,
books, or search queries for easy access. The online library is accessible
through the Internet 24 hours a day.
For
more information on BarBooks™, visit
Legal Publications at the OSB website. |
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