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BarAlliance
Consortium Initiative
The BarAlliance Consortium initiative
is now taking shape as an affiliation of bar organizations,
in partnership with other law-centric professional organizations
and various other member services providers, with the
intent of sharing resources to create and grow a bar
membership management system.
The Consortium, when fully formed, will
be a self-governed, independent body that will
exist for the mutual benefit of its member bars, and
the bars’ individual members.
The Consortium will be founded on member
participation. Bars that adopt the BarAlliance
Framework will be encouraged to participate
in the Consortium. Member-bars and legal organizations
will share in guiding the development of system feature
enhancements and further module development, as well
as the economies of scale gained through collective
bargaining.
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Primary Goals of a Consortium Approach:
- A member management system
developed specifically by and for bar
associations
- Savings and efficiencies from
the economies of scale of numerous participating
bars
- A Venue for the development
and ratification of mutually-beneficial software
functionality improvements to existing and future
Framework Services modules
- Through the Consortium, and
with the strong commitment of the technology
developer, the BarAlliance Consortium will continue
to evolve to the benefit of it's members
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venue, due to premier in Q2 of 2005, utilizes the
BarAlliance Framework, along with various partnering
accords and an elected governance/directorship structure
to facilitate currently unknown or appreciated levels
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How
does the BAC help bar organizations?
- Improved reach and growth due to increased
lawyer satisfaction and retention
- Improved membership oversight via
more comprehensive eligibility screening, attorney
discipline status data, etc
- Increased revenue and visibility via
more focused marketing and effective advertising
- Ability to respond more quickly to
industry change with greater flexibility
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How
does the BAC help
a bar's lawyers?
- More and better member services
options and related preferred savings programs
- Cross-organizational, specialized
working groups & networking opportunities
- Expanded, higher-quality online CLE
options
- More effective referral management
increases business exposure
- BarAlliance member self-services
portal gives layers and their staff a customized
web site for research, bar membership &
MCLE self-administration, and access to various
law-centric service offerings
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