Vol. 30, No. 5, #5. From the President.

• Author: Author: Gay V. Woodhouse

Wyoming Bar Journal

2007.

Vol. 30, No. 5, #5.

From the President

Wyoming Bar Journal Vol. 30, No. 5, #5 Issue: October, 2007

From the President . . .Author: Gay V. WoodhouseGreetings all members of the Bar! My theme this year is "Inward, Outward and Upward." It is my goal to continue the wonderful efforts that have been made by my predecessors and most particularly, Joe Bluemel, to strengthen the Bar as an organization and make it an asset to every licensed attorney in the state. To that end, I will outline some of the goals we have to address the internal efforts of the Bar, the "inward," if you will.

Strengthen and Enliven Bar Sections

We currently have twelve practice section of the Bar: Administrative Law, Business Law, Criminal Justice, Disability and Elderlaw, Federal Bar, Family Law, Government Law, Medical/Legal, Mineral Law, Taxation, Young Lawyers and the recently formed Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Section. The largest section is the Mineral Law Section with 54 members. Several sections have 30 or more members. Other than the Young Lawyers Section and the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Section, we are not aware that other sections are active or even have officers. If you are an officer in a section, please contact Sleeter Dover immediately, so we can begin to work with you to strengthen your section. He can be reached at (307) 632-9061 or by e-mail at sdover@wyomingbar.org.

By the time of this printing, I will have sent out a letter to section members asking them to volunteer for officer positions in their section, to set up conference call meetings to hold elections and begin to conduct business which will make the section beneficial to its members. It is my hope that each of these sections will begin to work for the benefit of the members by 1) hosting conference calls on toll-free numbers that will be provided by the Wyoming State Bar, and 2) by incorporating all section members in a section listserve that will be developed by the Bar. For those who do not know what a listserve is, it is a special kind of e-mail group that is set up so that e-mails from members are sent to everyone in the group, in this case, everyone in the section. By using that group e-mail capability, member comments and news can be broadcast to everyone in the section. It is a way to share ideas, recent case...