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    January-February 2015

    Vol. 39 No. 3  

    Trade, Sports & Professional Associations

    A personal note remembering Jack Sweeney

    by Roseanne Lucianek

    Longtime executive directors, staff members, and bar leaders will surely remember Jack Sweeney, who served as director of the ABA Division for Bar Services from 1982 to 1994 and as director of ABA Justice Initiatives until his retirement in 2002. Jack died in November 2014 and is remembered here by Roseanne Lucianek, current Division director and formerly a member of his staff.

    Featured Articles

    Trade, Sports & Professional Associations

    The big idea: Amidst changes in the legal profession, bar associations keep up ties with large firms

    by Robert J. Derocher

    With many large law firms doing more things on their own, consolidating, trimming budgets, cutting staff—or disappearing entirely—what happens to the bar associations that have depended on them for much of their membership? Is it still viable to pursue large law firms as a source of revenue, support, and participation, even as bars also try to meet the needs of a growing solo population? Here’s a look at how some savvy bar associations are rethinking and refiguring but still maintaining important relationships.

    Practice Technology

    All about that Basecamp: A case study from the Indianapolis Bar Association

    by Marilyn Cavicchia

    Like any other technology tool, a project management application can’t solve all your problems for you. But it can come pretty close, according to the executive director and staff at the Indianapolis Bar Association, who gave attendees at the 2014 NABE Communications Section Workshop the inside scoop on Basecamp. Why did they choose that particular app, and how has it changed how things get done?

    Professional Development

    Law professor Bill Henderson shares ‘Blueprint for Change’ with bar communicators

    by Marilyn Cavicchia

    In the face of changes and challenges that seem to be permanent, how can law school be redesigned to better prepare new lawyers for their new marketplace? And why should bar associations get involved in this discussion? Professor Bill Henderson of Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law shared his plan with attendees at the 2014 NABE Communications Section Workshop, in hopes that they would carry his urgent message back to their bar associations.