Bar Leader Toolkit

Developing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Young Lawyers Division

• Guidelines for Developing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Young Lawyer Association
• Reactivating or Starting a Young Lawyers Organization 
  
• The Essential Ingredients for Reactivating/Re-energizing a Young Lawyer Organization
• More Essential Ingredients for Reactivating/Re-energizing a Young Lawyer Organization

Knowing the Basics: The Young Lawyer Organization and Your Role 

• Know Your Organization — Past and Present Leaders, Activities, Policies and Procedures
• Your Role as Chair of a Young Lawyer Organization
• Starting the Bar Year Off Right: An Overview

Planning And Implementing Your Year as Chair/President

Long Range Planning and Working Plan     

• Long Range Planning: Why, How and When
• Developing the Long Range Plan
• Implementing the Long Range Plan
• Create in Advance a Working Plan
• It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint – Long Range Bar Planning with Clarity

Budget Planning

• Planning, Preparing and Implementing the Budget
• Fundraising A to Z: Getting the Money

Organizational Structure

• Does Your Organization's Structure Need to be Modified?
• Deciding What Committees to Have
• Staff or No Staff

Organizational Volunteers

• Selecting Committee Chairs
• Educating Committee Chairs and Bar Leaders
• How to Motivate Volunteers – by Seth Mendelsohn and Sonia Miller-Van Oort

Membership Needs and Diversity Planning

• Increasing and Retaining Your General Membership
• Developing a Model Diversity Plan
• ABA YLD Diversity Homepage

Communication

• How to Run a More Effective Meeting – by Andrew D. Gilman
• Public Relations
• Developing Close Relationships with other Organizations
• Managing Your Organization’s Relationship with the Senior Bar

Finishing Your Year as Chair/President

• Closing Out Your Bar Year