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Social Media Musings – Part III My Reflections on the Practice and Life
materials. Things will improve and firms will remember those associations who stuck by them.
If you’re a voluntary bar association, have a contingency plan for your conferences for the remainder of the year. Understand that after folks start traveling again, they’re not going to have the money to travel to your conference. That’s just a fact. So what to do? Go virtual. At least have plans to go virtual.
Voluntary bar associations and law firms are doing a great job and great service, pushing out a lot of content and webinars and online programming, most of it free, to keep us all informed and educated in these challenging times.
If you’re a voluntary bar association consider having Zoom calls where you have a moderator interview one or more guests on a topic and encourage members to submit questions via the Zoom chat feature.
If you’re a voluntary bar association, and you can’t have an actual meeting, consider a virtual meeting. There are several platforms that will create them for you.
If you’re a voluntary bar association, and you’ve been successful at attracting diverse lawyers, guess what? Those members want to have a voice in your organization, and want your organization to address, discuss and speak up about recent events. If you wanted diverse members, but didn’t want their voices, then you didn’t do yourself
or them any favors asking them to join. Diversity is more than just diversity of faces. It’s diversity of opinions and views. Diverse
discussions and diverse perspectives. It can be uncomfortable. It can be challenging. But we’re lawyers. We were trained to look at different perspectives and views. We were trained to live and thrive in a diverse culture and diverse country. We were born to do this.
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