Vol. 31, No. 5, #3. Executive Director's Report.

• Author: Author: Sleeter C. Dover

Wyoming Bar Journal

2008.

Vol. 31, No. 5, #3.

Executive Director's Report

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

Kudos, kudos, kudos to one and all. What a great year it has been. I sit in a unique and most advantageous position to observe and gauge the activities of the Bar and its accomplishments, trials and tribulations. From where I sit, the view is one of forward movement and focused service and benefits to members. Your Officers and Commissioners share an almost religious attention to insuring value to members of each and every initiative, idea, and endeavor in which the State Bar is engaged. Above and beyond just the anticipated administrative service oriented aspects of the State Bar staff, your Officers and Commissioners are constantly and rigidly seeking avenues to insure the competency and level of jurisprudence in Wyoming. From continuing legal education products and services to maintenance of high levels of admissions, professional conduct, disciplinary processes and procedures to maintain and enhance the perception and reality of the legal profession in Wyoming. By my informal assessment, there are over 250 attorneys volunteering their time and efforts to various Bar committees and boards. My calculations put that at around 17% of the active, resident members as of September 15, 2008. This is a truly remarkable and exemplary example of commitment and interest. The future prognosis is likewise exemplary as exhibited by the ongoing willingness of members such as John LaBuda, Robert Brown, Scott McColloch and Steve Palmer, who have agreed to serve as new Commissioners from their respective judicial districts.

Likewise, the Officers and Commissioners are most grateful and appreciative of the volunteers who have offered their services as chairs and officers of the various Wyoming State Bar sections that are now experiencing something of a new birth under the enthusiastic support of these able volunteers and their section members. Again, this reflects the culmination of one of the highest priority projects of the Officers and Commissioners over the most recently completed administrative year. The real-time involvement and educational opportunities of section members at the recently completed Annual Meeting is but one example of the reinvigorated nature of these...