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<td style="padding-left:10px; padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:10px; padding-right:15px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><strong>Welcome to Bar Briefs, your quick weekly collection of practice tips,<br />
membership benefits, upcoming events, new products, and more!
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<h2 style="color: #045394;">Pro Bono: Give the Gift That Gives Back to Your Firm</h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><img src="
http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/probono.jpg" alt="" width="176" height="154" align="right"/>With Pro Bono Week coming up October 23-29, now’s a great time to get your firm geared up to participate.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">Pro bono work benefits both junior and senior-level associates, giving them invaluable legal experience while also enhancing their communication, leadership, and management skills. The American Bar Association outlines some of the many benefits pro bono work brings to associates at every level and to the firm itself<sup style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; "> 1</sup>, including:</p>
<ul><li>Stronger relationships between senior partners and junior associates
</li><li>Opportunities to lead within your community
</li><li>Stronger leadership and management strategies
</li><li>Polished oral advocacy techniques
</li><li>Improved client management skills
</li><li>Clearer and more effective client communication
</li><li>Increased confidence
</li><li>A large breadth of experience that could take years to gain outside of pro bono work
</li><li>The chance to expose junior associates to depositions, hearings, possibly even trials
</li><li>Opportunities to groom your firm’s future leaders</li></ul>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">In addition, your firm can use its pro bono work to support its marketing efforts. Highlight how your firm is helping those in need on your firm’s website, in the corporate brochure, and through the firm’s blog and social media accounts. </p>
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<h3 style="color: #045394;">The “myth-conceptions” of pro bono and public sector attorneys</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">Think that because you’re a public sector attorney you can’t do pro bono work? There are rules that you must consider, but most government attorneys CAN do pro bono work. Before taking on pro bono work, be aware that you must follow any applicable statutes, regulations, or office policies. The State Bar’s Board of Governors has a long-standing public policy position addressing pro bono service by government lawyers:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>Pro Bono Legal Services:</strong> The State Bar of Wisconsin supports removing legal impediments to government attorneys performing pro bono legal services. Attorneys employed by government have the same professional obligations to perform pro bono as do private practitioners but impediments in state statutes, administrative codes, local ordinances and local bargaining agreements may exist that make fulfilling this obligation difficult, if not impossible. [Adopted June 1996.]</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">The State Bar’s pro bono program staff can help you identify appropriate pro bono opportunities and evaluate them to ensure they won’t cause any concerns. Contact us by <a href="
mailto:probono@wisbar.org">email</a> or by calling 608-250-6177.</p>
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<h3 style="color: #045394;">A Full-service Forms Bank</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6px;">Have you tried our timesaving, easy-to-use Fillable Forms Bank? Previously available only as individual libraries, you can now access every form, in any library, with a full Fillable Forms Bank subscription. With access to more than 1200 forms and legal documents, you’ll experience the ease and convenience of 24/7 access to every form in all eight libraries, including:</p>
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<td width="172" valign="top"><ul><li>Appellate Practice
</li><li>Business Law
</li><li>Civil Litigation
</li><li>Criminal Law</li></ul></td>
<td width="225" valign="top"><ul><li>Elder Law
</li><li>Estate Planning/Probate Law
</li><li>Family Law
</li><li>Real Estate</li></ul></td>
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6px;">Streamline your workflow with this central, online location for legal forms. Every form is regularly updated to ensure it complies with all required statutory specifications. Most documents are available in MS Word format for easy editing and modification. Each library’s easily searchable setup helps you quickly find the form you need by title or keyword. </p>
<p>For more information on the Fillable Forms Bank or individual forms libraries, <a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/OnlineForms/Pages/Online-Forms.aspx">visit WisBar Marketplace</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="color: #045394;">Join a State Bar section and reap the rewards! </h3>
<p><img src="
http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/SecDiv_Connect_175w.jpg" alt="" width="119" height="98" align="right"/>Thousands of State Bar members are also members of one or more of our 24 sections. And now online registration is available, making it even easier for you to connect with lawyers who have a common practice or professional interest. </p>
<p><strong>Joining a section is easy! </strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="
https://www.wisbar.org/formembers/groups/pages/join-a-group.aspx">Click here to register online</a>. </li><li>Call Customer Service at (800) 728-7788.
</li><li>Send a letter of request, along with the appropriate annual fee (if applicable) to the State Bar of Wisconsin, P.O. Box 7158, Madison, WI 53707-7158.</li></ul>
<p>Members also can join sections through the State Bar annual dues and Supreme Court assessment statement they receive each spring.
Don’t miss this important way to network and share information with your peers. Join a State Bar section today!</p>
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<div align="center"><img src="
http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/bkofwk_digest-purple.jpg" width="250" height="83" alt=""/><h3>Book of the Week<br />
Ends Friday, September 23</h3></div>
<h3 style="color: #045394;">Traffic Law and Practice in Wisconsin</h3>
<p><span class="black" style="color: #000"><a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/Pages/Product.aspx?category=&cat=&pid=AK0167">Print Book</a>:<br />
List:<s> $219 member</s> / <s>$269 nonmember</s><br />
</span><span style="color: #E31B1B"> <span style="color: #E31B1B"><strong>Sale price: $175.20</strong></span><strong> member / $215.20 nonmember </strong></span></p>
<p><span class="black" style="color: #000"><a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/Pages/Product.aspx?cat=WISBAR&pid=AE0167">Books UnBound</a>:<br />
List:<s> $159 member</s> / <s>$199 nonmember</s><br />
</span><span style="color: #E31B1B"> <span style="color: #E31B1B"><strong>Sale price: $127.20</strong></span><strong> member / $159.20 nonmember </strong></span></p>
<p>To redeem your discount, enter priority code <strong>B4785BB</strong> when ordering online or mention it when calling Customer Service (800) 728-7788.*</p>
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<h3 style="color: #045394;">The State Bar has many pro bono opportunities, including:</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong><a href="
http://www.wisbar.org/formembers/probono/Pages/Modest-Means-Program.aspx">Modest Means</a></strong> – The Modest Means Program provides legal services at reduced cost to people whose income is too high for free legal services, but too low to pay a standard attorney rate. Attorneys who join the Modest Means Program offer alternative payment arrangements like a reduced hourly rate or a lower-than-normal fee advance.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:8pt;">CRYPTOGRAM ANSWER: Justice delayed is justice denied.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:8pt;"> *This offer is not available with any other discount and expires September 23, 2016. Discount cannot be applied to previous purchases, or used for renewals of subscriptions, auto-supplementation subscriptions, or Books UnBound full library subscriptions.</span></p>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:8pt;">MKT416E </span>
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