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STATE BAR OF MONTANA STRATEGIC PLAN 2023-2025
2023-2025 Strategic Plan
Strategic Goal #1 – Advance the Critical Role the Bar Plays in Protecting the Public
1. Educate, Inform and Coalition-build Around the Bar’s Importance
 Tell the Bar’s Value in Positively Impacting Montana
 Understanding Concerns and Relationship-Building with Policy Makers  Coalition-Building Activity
 Communication Strategies
Strategic Goal #2 – Advance Initiatives and Opportunities to Elevate Access to Justice for all Montanans
1. Continue Rural Practice Initiatives to Ensure Justice is Accessible to All  Advance Policy Concepts
 Support of Current Rural Practitioners
 Inform Courts on Access to Justice Solutions
2. Educate the Bar about Emerging Generative AI Trends Affecting Legal  Impact on Legal Service Delivery
 Law Practice Management/Efficiency Implications
 Consumer Utilization
Strategic Goal #3 – Enhance Bar Relevance and Connectivity to Members
1. Expand Awareness of What Bar Members Seek and Deepen Connection  Survey Members
o What Do They Seek?
o WhatProblemsCanWeSolveforThem?  Local Bar Support and Focus
o EnhanceLocalBarPartnershipsinaPost-PandemicEnvironment
Strategic Goal #4 – Communication Modernization
1. Package Bar Communications in Ways to Elevate Engagement/Use  Video Utilization
o Repackaged “Traditional” Content, Video Integration to Social Media, Effective Storytelling Functionality
 “Action Alert” Utilization
o GreaterEngagementOn-RampsforMemberstoParticipate/Help
The purpose of the State Bar of Montana is to aid the courts in maintaining and improving the administration of justice; to foster, maintain and require on the part of attorneys high standards of integrity, learning, competence, public service and conduct; to safeguard proper professional interest of local bar associations; to provide a forum for discussion of and effective action concerning subjects pertaining to the practice law, science of jurisprudence and law reform, and relations of the Bar to the public; to provide continuing legal education of members of the Bar and to ensure that the responsibilities of the legal profession are more effectively discharged.
Approved by the State Bar of Montana Board of Trustees on December 1, 2023
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