Vol. 31, No. 1, #4. Executive Director's Report.

• Author: Author: Sleeter C. Dover, Esq.

Wyoming Bar Journal

2008.

Vol. 31, No. 1, #4.

Executive Director's Report

Wyoming Bar Journal Issue: February, 2008 Author: Sleeter C. Dover, Esq. Executive Director's Report

Help Us Help You!The new year is off and running and we here at your State Bar office in Cheyenne are back in the trenches and enthusiastically moving forward with established and projected programs and activities. Marching orders have been issued by your Officers and Commissioners, and we are diligently moving forward with routine day-to-day, planned, and newly established goals and projects.

In general, the By-laws of the Wyoming State Bar provide that the staff of the Wyoming State Bar, headed by the executive director, is prepared to furnish assistance to any section or committee including, but not limited to;

1. Providing general information in amplification of policy.

2. Providing financial statements, paying appropriate reimbursements and section or committee expenses and collecting dues.

3. Assisting in obtaining resource materials.

4. Clarifying and coordinating activities of sections and committees.

Be assured that this assistance, and more, is readily available to your section or committee. We not only encourage section and committee leaders, but we actually implore you to help us help you and your section or committee to actively provide specialized services to section and committee members by promotion of educational and service commitments and performance of assigned duties and tasks on behalf of the general membership.

Regrettably, I must agree with and I am certainly well aware of and have too often seen the truth of the old truism "if you want something done, ask a busy person." I surmise that the Wyoming State Bar has, and will probably continue, to add support and substance to this notion by also "asking busy people" to get things done on behalf of and for the benefit of the membership as a whole.

While attempting not to lecture, I think it instructive to note the following "purposes" of the Wyoming State Bar as outlined in the Rules Providing for the Organization and Government of the Bar Association and Attorneys as found in the Wyoming Court Rules.

Rule 3. Purposes

The purposes of the Wyoming State Bar are: to aid the courts in maintaining and improving the administration of justice; to foster, maintain and require on the part of...