Vol. 73, No. 11, November
2000
Improve member education that is responsive to changing member
needs.
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Every year, the State Bar continuing legal
education
departments collaborate with State Bar members to provide substantive
and practical
CLE. In addition to the traditional programs and publications that
members
know and rely upon, the State Bar experimented in developing
alternative delivery
mechanisms for CLE materials.
Traditional CLE
programs
and publications. CLE Seminars collaborated with numerous
State
Bar sections, committees, other legal organizations, and
interdisciplinary
professional groups to produce more than 80 live seminars resulting
in 420-plus
program dates and locations, and serving more than 13,000 members.
The Appellate
Advocacy Workshop, produced in collaboration with the Appellate
Practice
Section, received the Award of Outstanding Achievement from the
Association
for Continuing Legal Education.
CLE Books continued its award-winning
publications program,
updating more than 30 of its 50-plus books and issuing several new
titles.
The year's new notable accomplishments include the comprehensive
Wisconsin
Trial Practice, added to the Bar's civil litigation series; the
Wisconsin Guide
to Citation, which explains the new public domain citation format
adopted by
the Wisconsin Supreme Court; Wisconsin Employment Law Codebook, added
to the
Bar's collection of selected statutes and regulations on specific
topics; and
a paperback, Wisconsin Law of Easements, with useful forms on disk.
New year brings
hands-on
technology training to Bar Center. The Quarles & Brady
LLP Technology
Center, located at the new Bar Center, became home to members and
their support
staff seeking hands-on training in law office technology
applications. The
technology-training curriculum grew out of the 1996 and 2000
technology surveys
in which 56 percent of respondents said that hands-on training would
help
them in their practice. More than 15 program titles and 80 program
dates
have focused on Internet- and computer-assisted legal research and
other
law office applications such as PowerPoint for Litigators and
effective use
of Word in the law office.
The State Bar has partnered with the Law
Librarians of
Wisconsin, which has been instrumental in designing and teaching the
legal
research classes, and Westlaw, LOIS, and LEXIS to present
individualized instruction
in each of those research tools.
Popular Probate
Systems
books developed into electronic forms system. In exploring
new ways
to deliver products that increase attorneys' efficiency, CLE Books
introduced
the Windows version of the Probate Document Assembly System. The
fully integrated
practice system software is a companion to the State Bar's
top-selling Wisconsin
Probate System: Forms and Procedures Handbook. The probate software
is a
complete document automation system that merges client data into
forms and
correspondence for informal probate in Wisconsin. The software is on
CD-ROM,
and is compatible with both Word and WordPerfect.
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