President's Page, 0120 ALBJ, 81 The Alabama Lawyer 8 (2020)

• Author: Christina D. Crow
• Position: Vol. 81 1 Pg. 8

PRESIDENT'S PAGE

Vol. 81 No. 1 Pg. 8

Alabama Bar Lawyer

January, 2020

Christina D. Crow

Member Benefits Update

New goals often come with a new year. For many of us, one goal is to save more and spend less. One of my main priorities for this year is to provide significant value and monetary savings to Alabama State Bar members through increased member benefits and to increase awareness of the member benefits we have in place. George Parker and Jimbo Terrell are co-chairs of the Member Benefits Committee. With the assistance of Ashley Penhale, state bar director of programs, they introduced several recently approved benefits. These benefits include discounts with: • Cartography Consulting;

• Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty Rental Cars;

• Identillect;

• Indexed I/O;

• Lenovo Computers;

• Office Depot;

• Orangetheory Fitness;

• Smith.ai;and

• Wellbeing Coaching Consultants

These new benefits are in addition to the numerous ones already offered to our members, including from: • ABA Retirement Funds;

• ABA Web Store and Books for Bars;

• Avis and Budget Rental Cars;

• Bar Member Travel Discount;

• Brooks Brothers;

• Casemaker;

• Clio Practice Management;

• Conference America;

• CosmoLex Practice Management;

• Easysoft Closing Software;

• GEICO Insurance;

• ISI Major Medical, Life, Disability, Business, Overhead, Umbrella and Other Insurance

• LawPay Credit Card/Debit Card Processing;

• Legal Directories Alabama Blue Book;

• LocalLawyers Internet-Based Client Development;

• MyCase;

• Orlando Employee Discounts;

• Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Marriott Hotels Discount;

• Rocket Matter Practice Management;

• Ruby Receptionists Virtual Receptionist Service;

• Thriving in the Legal Profession; and

• UPS Shipping Discounts

To stay up to date on the member benefits, look for highlights such as Member Benefit Mondays featured in The Scoop or on the bar's social media channels. For a full list of benefits, visit https://www.alabar.org/members/benefits/ and click on Discounts. Log in to your Alabama State Bar account to get the discount codes.

Recently, a new lawyer shared with me that he saved several hundred dollars on his car insurance with the GEICO discount. My firm has taken advantage of several of these discounts through the years. You can receive 20 percent off the best available rate at all eight Marriott hotels associated with the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail...