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    Wisconsin Lawyer
    November 01, 2000

    Wisconsin Lawyer November 2000: Charting the Bar's Direction 5


    Improve member education that is responsive to changing member needs.

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    2000 Annual Report

    1. Increase and diversify participation in Bar activities.

    2. Increase public understanding of citizens' legal rights and responsibilities.

    3. Enhance public understanding of the administration of justice.

    4. Improve access to justice.

    5. Improve member education that is responsive to changing member needs.

    6. Improve member service that is responsive to changing member needs.

    7. Use technology to improve education, communication, member services, cost-effective access to legal resources, and effective management.

    8. Evaluate and improve our own governance and administration to best effectuate our mission.

    9. Advocate for the integrity and effectiveness of the legal profession.

    10. Support and promote attorneys as problem solvers.

    Every year, the State Bar continuing legal education departments collaborate with State Bar members to provide substantive and practical CLE. In addition to the traditional programs and publications that members know and rely upon, the State Bar experimented in developing alternative delivery mechanisms for CLE materials.

    Traditional CLE programs and publications. CLE Seminars collaborated with numerous State Bar sections, committees, other legal organizations, and interdisciplinary professional groups to produce more than 80 live seminars resulting in 420-plus program dates and locations, and serving more than 13,000 members. The Appellate Advocacy Workshop, produced in collaboration with the Appellate Practice Section, received the Award of Outstanding Achievement from the Association for Continuing Legal Education.

    CLE Books continued its award-winning publications program, updating more than 30 of its 50-plus books and issuing several new titles. The year's new notable accomplishments include the comprehensive Wisconsin Trial Practice, added to the Bar's civil litigation series; the Wisconsin Guide to Citation, which explains the new public domain citation format adopted by the Wisconsin Supreme Court; Wisconsin Employment Law Codebook, added to the Bar's collection of selected statutes and regulations on specific topics; and a paperback, Wisconsin Law of Easements, with useful forms on disk.

    New year brings hands-on technology training to Bar Center. The Quarles & Brady LLP Technology Center, located at the new Bar Center, became home to members and their support staff seeking hands-on training in law office technology applications. The technology-training curriculum grew out of the 1996 and 2000 technology surveys in which 56 percent of respondents said that hands-on training would help them in their practice. More than 15 program titles and 80 program dates have focused on Internet- and computer-assisted legal research and other law office applications such as PowerPoint for Litigators and effective use of Word in the law office.

    The State Bar has partnered with the Law Librarians of Wisconsin, which has been instrumental in designing and teaching the legal research classes, and Westlaw, LOIS, and LEXIS to present individualized instruction in each of those research tools.

    Popular Probate Systems books developed into electronic forms system. In exploring new ways to deliver products that increase attorneys' efficiency, CLE Books introduced the Windows version of the Probate Document Assembly System. The fully integrated practice system software is a companion to the State Bar's top-selling Wisconsin Probate System: Forms and Procedures Handbook. The probate software is a complete document automation system that merges client data into forms and correspondence for informal probate in Wisconsin. The software is on CD-ROM, and is compatible with both Word and WordPerfect.

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