Happy Trails Reflections on My Year as CBA President, 0618 COBJ, Vol. 47, No. 6 Pg. 4
| Author | DICK GAST, J. |
| Position | Vol. 47, 6 [Page 4] |
CBA PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
DICK GAST, J.
CBA PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Our Colorado Bar Association is one resilient organization. How else can you explain the fact that it’s emerged relatively unscathed from my term as president? And, along the way the CBA has advanced the mission of helping you, our members, thrive as lawyers while also supporting our justice system and enriching our communities. Allow me to touch on just a few of the many highlights from the past year.
Helping Our Members Be Better Lawyers
Early this year, the CBA launched its innovative new membership benefit, MGMT HQ. Offered in conjunction with Affinity Consulting Group, this program is a major upgrade in providing law practice management tools for our members. The centerpiece web portal1 provides top-notch content about legal technologies, practice management, marketing, billing, and other relevant topics—content not otherwise accessible through your typical Google search. The portal delivers quick and easy access to information on the latest in technological and management developments and best practices, including recommendation lists for notebook and desktop computer configurations as well as software and hardware providers. In addition to the web portal, members have access to Affinity University, an online, on-demand training center for popular legal software applications. Particularly popular with our members have been the monthly 30- to 60-minute Affinity webinars covering current topics of interest to those practicing throughout Colorado. The MGMT HQ resources are abundant and varied, offering something for lawyers of all types and experience levels.
Helping Our Members in Need
Under the capable leadership of LaMar Jost, a partner with Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell in Denver, the CBA launched the SOLACE program.2 This program allows members of the legal community to help colleagues in need—whether they’ve experienced a death, catastrophic event, illness, injury, or some other personal crisis—by providing support in a compassionate way through assistance and donations in kind. If you or someone in our legal community needs help, simply email SOLACE@cobar.org and describe the crisis and the need. If the need fits within the program parameters, an email with the pertinent information is sent to CBA members who have chosen to be part of the SOLACE listserv. Those wishing to help reply to the email are then linked to the person in need. All SOLACE requests are handled as discreetly as possible; the only parties who know the identity of the person requesting help are the SOLACE coordinators and...
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