Legal Edgewalkers
Announcements from the Road
We've been quieter than usual in these last few weeks. We've done some amazing work on our new Open Heart Dialog and Systemic Change projects, presenting them in some cool places. We've been streamlining the back end of the site and deleting old, irrelevant content and preparing for some big changes that are in the works.
Corrected: IAHL Celebrates and Dissolves
Many more apologies. I hadn't intended to send this again but several people asked me to do so. Let's hope that the third time is a charm for the formatting challenges.
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At the conference celebrating the 20th anniversary, with a diverse group of members and friends present, the membership and board of the International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers passed a resolution dissolving the corporation.
International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers Celebrates Fulfillment of Mission and Dissolves
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At the conference celebrating the 20th anniversary, with a diverse group of members and friends present, the membership and board of the International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers passed a resolution dissolving the corporation.
Official Announcement and Resolution: http://iahl.org/
April: A Month of New Growth and Expanded Visions
Beyond BurnOut
April has been an exciting month for us! We've been working all winter on some new materials and we finally got to test drive them at the Arizona Bar! Thanks to Alisa Gray and Pamela Donison for paving the way for an amazing program. Both Michael and I participated in the bar sponsored program, Beyond BurnOut. Lisa Deane, the MCLE director of the bar wrote this to Michael:
Quick Announcements
Register for the International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers May 12-15 conference before April 1 and get the Cutting Edge Law pre-conference program for half price! Go to www.iahl.org
For more about our workshop and how you can be more effective as a lawyer, see this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O88KCZbPv0
Also, while I'm writing, Michael and I are both on the road and have limited internet access for the next couple of weeks. If you need us, wait if you can. If you can't, please call rather than email.
March Madness? Monthly Update
I just posted a News Feed that has a lot of information in it and I spent most of the weekend working on the site and writing these posts. Please honor my work by visiting this overview link and clicking through the links that interest you.
http://cuttingedgelaw.com/newsfeed/march-madness
The headlines:
Blogger of the Month: Michael Matthews
Featured Article: Systemic Change in the Legal Profession
Upcoming Events
Beyond Burnout: Practical Approaches to Transform Your Practice and Your Life in Phoenix on April 7 {LOTS of Ethics CLE!]
Have you renewed your membership? Please don't go!
If you're receiving this email in text format, go to
http://www.cuttingedgelaw.com/content/have-you-renewed-your-membership-p...
to see it in HTML.
A few weeks ago, we sent out renewal notices for Cutting Edge Law memberships. With the book tour and holidays, some had expired quite some time ago and the people hadn't been notified. We gave some extra time to re-up and many of you did. (THANK YOU!)
And quite a few of you probably did what I do: saved the email and promise to get to it later. It's later.
An Administrative Message that We Hope You Read Even Though it isn't Exciting
Membership Purge
Do you feel the elbow room? There is more room on our website user list after some work that Kim has been doing this week.
As you may have noticed from most websites with free comments and easy posting, there are a lot of people (and technology posing as people) out there who like to post junk on websites. The ads for pharmaceuticals and porn sites are just the tip of a very big industry. Sometimes the posts are links to various malware and sometimes they look like real comments but include a link to something nefarious.
Kim to lead a holistic law CLE for West Legal Ed Center- Sign up now!
Get CLE for holistic law from the comfort of your own office (or in your jammies at home!) West Legal Ed Center is offering Practicing Holistic, Problem-Solving Law on February 23. Sign up now!
http://westlegaledcenter.com/program_guide/course_detail.jsf?courseId=34...
Milestones in Mainstreaming
In the past couple of weeks, we've had some opportune computer crashes. In the course of a week, my personal computer was attacked by malware and shut down twice...TWICE! It took days to recover.
In restoring some old back-ups, I found hundreds of files from the early days of last decade and even the 1990's. Correspondence that created Renaissance Lawyer, drafts of the IAHL website, agendas for meetings and other treasures were full of hopes and dreams for advancements in law that we could barely imagine. And we have surpassed most of those early goals, many times over.
