ABA SOLO, SMALL FIRM AND GENERAL PRACTICE
DIVISION
COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT FORM – ANNUAL
MEETING 2016
Division Name and Number: Practice Specialty Division:
3
Reporting Board or Committee
(and Group, if appropriate): ABA Elder Law Committee Summer Report 2016
Completed By: Kenneth Vercammen Chair, Edison, NJ
1. What has your committee or board done since its last
report (e.g., conference call, meetings, publications, use of discussion lists,
planning for CLE programs, publications and articles, collaboration with other
committees, boards or sections, etc.)?
-June Conference
call with ABA
Commission on Law and Aging, and invites other members of committee to
participate.
-Webinar Wills and Estate Administration for the Small Firm Lawyer: Improving
Practice and Increasing Income ABA webinar
June 14 2016 from 1:00-2:30 PM
ET.
ABA Webinar CE1604WEA
Topics:
1. Preparation for Wills/Estate
Planning Interviews
2. Interviewing Clients
3. Signing documents and
Additional Estate Planning Issues
5
Marketing Your Wills and Estate Administration Practice
Format: Webinar
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
Credits: 1.50 General CLE Credit Hours
Panelist(s):
Moderator(s):
Sponsor(s): ABA
-
Invited members
to NJ Bar Association Summer Blast happy hour at the Jersey shore.
-
Successful
Committee meeting with the Tax Committee and Estate Committee at the Spring Key
West meeting
2.
What is the
status of your committee or board’s business plan for the year (e.g.,
participation of committee board members, goals achieved, new goals, etc.)?
Excellent
-An email
will be sent to all Committee members to invite them to participate in the ABA
Aging conference call in September
- We will continue to Publicize the
book “Wills and Estate Administration Practice” to help generate revenue for
Division.
3. Does your committee
or board need any assistance from your Director,
Staff, Division Officers, or Council? If
yes, please explain:
Help market the three
ABA books which generate revenue for the Division
Ken V’s new ABA book “Wills and
Estate Administration” was released the end of 2015. This is Ken’s 3rd
book for the Solo Division.
We also need assistance to
promote sales for ABA Book: “Smart Marketing For the Small
Firm Lawyer” from the American Bar Association.
Author: Kenneth A Vercammen
Sponsor(s):
Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division
Publisher(s): ABA Book Publishing
We also offered to set up on Brown
Bag webinar to discuss chapters in the “Wills and Estate Administration
Practice” book and are waiting for a response.
Report on anything
else: We would like to have a program at Annual Meeting 2017 – New York, New York August
10 - 15
4. Are you submitting an action item to be presented to Council? If so, please describe: NO