Leadership . . . Lavery Style

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming,United States
• Citation: Vol. 31 No. 5 Pg. 5
• Publication year: 2008
• Pages: 5
• Year: 2008
• topic: Business of Law,Insurance Law

Wyoming Bar Journal 2008.

Vol. 31, No. 5, #5. Leadership . . . Lavery Style

Wyoming Bar Journal
Issue: October, 2008

Author: Mary L. Angell

Leadership . . . Lavery Style

The Wyoming State Bar's new president has an addiction Evanston attorney Rick Lavery is hooked on power tools. He told the Wyoming Lawyer in a September interview that he didn't know shopping could be so much fun until he discovered Home Depot and Lowe's. His self-confessed love/hate relationship with home improvement projects has compelled him to re-do almost everything but the kitchen on the main floor of his home - from the molding and window trim to adding hard wood floors

"I'm very happy with how it turned out," he said. "Everything I did I had not done before."

Lavery has not served as Bar president before either, but he has a couple of fix-it projects in mind for his term. Like his home improvement projects, they may not include the kitchen sink, but he hopes to accomplish them with the same degree of success.

First and foremost, Lavery wants to establish a health insurance plan for Bar members.

"It's a gigantic thing for most members in small firms. The cost of continuing to...