1. Bar Associations Helping With Law Practice Management
Blue Skies and Clouds:
Bar Associations Helping With Law Practice Management

2. NYSBA Law Hub

3. NYSBA Law Hub
Questions?

4. How Do Lawyers Get Technology Training?
49% of firms get security awareness training annually
68% of firms do not have learning management systems;
50% have no remote training;
56% do not offer e-learning options
Top 3 Technology Issues or Annoyances within firm? Meeting Needs for and/or Getting Participation in Training ranks 6th of 22 (and change management accounts for 3 of the top 5)
ILTA 2015 Technology Survey of Staff IT Professionals in 420 US law firms

5. How Do Lawyers Get Technology Training?
ABA Legal Technology Survey Report 2015 of ~800 ABA Lawyer Members

6. How Firms Are Addressing Their Challenges
We have implemented changes to address the issues.
We have a plan in place but have not yet implemented it.
We haven’t yet determined how to address these issues.
1. Acquiring new client business.
37%
22%
41%
2. Spending too much time on admin tasks.
19%
40%
3. Increasing complexity of tech.
28%
36%
4. Cost control and expense growth.
46%
25%
29%
5. Clients demanding more for less or rate pressure from clients.
34%
24%
42%
Small-solo law firm management survey conducted by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group and reported on Lawsites by Robert Ambrogi

7. What Can Bar Associations Do To Be Relevant, Attract, and Retain Members?
Thesis statement

8. Why Does Practice Management Matter?
Why Does it Matter to Lawyers?
o   Ethics and Competency
o   Competition from nonlawyer companies
o   Competition from robot overlords
o   Outsourcing
o   Client Demand

9. Add a PMA
Add a PMA
o   What’s a PMA?

10. Identify Partners Partner
ALA, Law schools, courts, legal aid, LMA, etc.
Other professional associations (CPA, AIA, AMA, etc.)
ABA Law Practice Division
Why? – content, exposure, qualified speakers

11. Content, Content, Content
Sharing tech and business operations information
Include in your electronic and print publications regularly
Include regularly in CLE offerings
Information Concierge

12. Beyond the Talking Heads
Add interactive learning
Quizzes, polls, self assessment, online training
In person training

13. What Does the Future Hold?
Efforts and Impact (spreading influence)
o   Incubators
o   Future of the Law
What Does the Future Hold?

14. Bar Associations' Big Challenges
Biggest Challenges
Communicating Your Worth
Developing sufficient expertise to filter information for members
Organizing information so your members can find it
Cutting through the noise

15. Thanks! Questions?
David Watson, Executive Director, New York State Bar Association
Jim Calloway, Director of the Management Assistance Program, Oklahoma Bar Association
Catherine Sanders Reach, Director of Law Practice Management & Technology, The Chicago Bar Association