ABA Law Practice Management Section Gets Stunning Message from Incoming Chair
John Tredennick, the incoming chair of the ABA's LPM Section sent a stunning letter to the Section's active members (which number about 180; the membership of the entire section is about 18,000 attorneys). The letter warned that certain travel and lodging expenses for meetings would no longer be reimbursed, and they should look to their employers (and not the ABA) to support their ABA activities.
The LPM's annual budget is about $3 million, and apparently things are getting tight. Tredennick told an editor of Law Technology News that he wants to "re-focus the section on the core themes of technology, marketing, management and finance." Reading between the lines, it looks like the LPM Section is getting heat from the main body of the ABA.
I don't know what's up at the LPM, but I hope they work it out. I enjoy their magazine, which is filled with lots of practical information about technology and marketing, and incidentally is where Rick writes a column on the impact of the Internet on the law.
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