Chairs Site

Missouri Bar Committee Chair Online Meeting/Report Toolkit
(See Checklist for May 9th Spring Committee Meetings below)

This Website is a one-stop location filled with tools for Missouri Bar committee chairs who prefer to manage committee activities and communicate with their committee members online. Bookmark this site and return to it when you want to:

complete the form letting MoBar know whether you are holding a meeting – click here

submit your meeting agenda to The Missouri Bar – click here

access your committee listserve to send announcements and messages – click here

complete the necessary form to get your meeting CLE approved for credit – click here

let us know if you will need audiovisual equipment and/or handouts for your meeting – click here

complete and submit meeting minutes to the Bar – click here

MoBar Committee Chair Timeline/Checklist for May 9th Spring Committee Meetings
Deadline Action Item

March 14 Ask Committee Members for Agenda/CLE Ideas
Send an e-mail on your committee listserve to see what members think should be on the agenda and/or would be good CLE topics. It’s easy, just click here for a list of committee listserves. Click on your listserve, write a message and send it. Make it easy on yourself, use a template message – copy, paste, edit and send. (click here)

March 21 Let the Bar Know If Your Committee Will Meet
• complete and return form received in the mail, or
• complete the form online

April 1 Decide on a CLE Topic and Begin Recruiting Speaker(s)
You will be way ahead if you know your topic, content and begin recruiting your speaker around the first of April. You’ll need all of this information in order to submit the paperwork for credit approval and that is needed by April 15 (see below).

April 15 Submit Form Early for CLE Credit Before April 15
Many attendees are drawn to your meeting by free CLE credit, but your program must be approved before this date for the information to appear in the promotional program mailed to all MoBar members.
• identify your topic, content and confirm your speaker...see form
• submit information on MoBar MCLE credit approval form

April 15 Get Your Agenda in Promotional Mailings & on Listserve
To ensure that your agenda is printed/mailed to your committee and is also included in the Spring Meeting promotional mailer, we must have it by this date. Agendas will also be posted on the Spring Committee Meeting Website.

April 30 MoBar Will Print and Deliver Your Meeting Handouts
The Missouri Bar will print handouts that you want distributed at your meeting and have the materials in your meeting room upon arrival. To do this, however, you must provide all materials to The Missouri Bar by this date.

Template E-Mail Message Requesting Agenda/CLE Ideas

Simply cut and paste, edit if you desire, add your name to the end and paste it into your listserve subject line and message body.

Subject Line:

Help Shape Our May Spring Meeting, Let me Know Your Agenda, CLE Ideas

Message

Dear Committee Member,

Our next committee meeting will be May 9, during The Missouri Bar Spring Committee Meetings. Our location will be the Capital Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City. You will be receiving more specific information in the coming weeks, but right now I am interested in your thoughts and ideas for our agenda and a CLE program.

Although the meeting is in early May, we will need to finalize our agenda and develop a CLE program in early April, so please let me know your thoughts and suggestions by April 1.

To share your ideas, simply reply to this message. If you are suggesting a CLE program, please let me know if you know of a good speaker on the subject as well. Thanks very much.

I look forward to seeing you in May.

Best regards

P.S. It was just recently confirmed that our newest Supreme Court Judge Patricia Breckenridge will be the special luncheon speaker at the meetings.