At the Wesley E. Brown Chapter in Wichita, Kansas, we have seven
meetings per year. At our first meeting, the new teams meet
and begin developing topics for presentation. We have six
teams that present to the Inn throughout the remaining 6 meetings
of the year. A seventh team provides outreach to our local
Bar Association by providing twelve hours of
CLE.
The Professionalism/Civility team is developing a program to
maintain and encourage civility and professionalism within the
Wichita bar. For its first year, the team is focused on
presenting a program to the local judiciary, as judges have greater
capacity to positively affect civility among attorneys over a
sustained period of time. This program is designed to help
judges recognize "attorneys behaving badly" and to provide the
judges with suggestions for handling incivility appropriately and
effectively. This program's specific outreach target is the
judiciary, but the intended secondary outreach targets are the
attorneys and litigants who appear in court.
The Membership Services team is developing survey(s) of the Inn
membership to determine ways in which we can better meet the needs
of our membership. The Membership Services team will compile
the results and provide them to the Inn Executive Committee at the
end of the year, for potential implementation next year.
Along with surveying membership, the Membership Services team will
also be honoring our Emeritus members by interviewing them (and
their cohorts) and submitting articles to the
Bar-o-meter (Wichita Bar Association journal) about our Emeritus
members. The submission of the articles to the local
bar association is another way in which the Inn engages in outreach
beyond the Inn membership.