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Class Project: 2021-22
The 2021-22 LSBA Leadership Class is currently working on a project for personnel and family
on military bases.
OUTREACH
Outreach Tour by President and President-elect
The LSBA is engaged in a state-wide outreach effort to intentionally bring the Association to
lawyers outside of the New Orleans area, especially those living and practicing above I-12. The
activities of the LSBA President and President-elect encompasses many of the outreach activities
listed below.
Member Outreach CLE Series
A CLE seminar titled LSBA: Who We Are and How We Serve Our Members has been made
available to local and specialty bar associations to educate LSBA members about the association
and the services it provides. It is approved for one credit hour of CLE professionalism.
Outreach Committee
Co-chairs
Bethany A. Blackson
Sowmya Mandava
Mission
The mission of the Outreach Committee is to develop and implement sustained outreach to local
and specialty bars throughout the state and to increase awareness of the member services and
benefits provided by the LSBA. The committee shall encourage member participation in all aspects
of the LSBA and shall facilitate such participation through the use of technology and any other
feasible alternatives.
A resolution was presented to the House of Delegates on January 16, 2016 and approved the
Outreach Committee as a LSBA standing committee.
The Outreach Committee is working with the LSBA Editorial Board for the Louisiana Bar Journal
to promote member benefits by interviewing different LSBA members that utilize the benefits.
The first article on hotel benefits was published in the August/September 2017 LA Bar Journal.
This remains a goal of the committee.
Member Benefits
The Department has assumed the role of prescreening member benefit offers and making
recommendations to the Board of Governors regarding whether the LSBA should offer the benefits
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