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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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